Sentence examples for incoming shells from inspiring English sources

The Laser Area Defence System, LADS, being developed by Raytheon, is intended to do just that blowing incoming shells and small rockets apart with laser beams.

Rebels said that on some days they had counted more than 2,000 incoming shells, a cascade of fire punctuated by airstrikes.

At night, huddled in my sleeping bag in the ice-cold Holiday Inn, I counted incoming shells from the nearby hills and imagined that I was not as alone as I really was.

At 02 10, incoming shells killed or wounded almost all of Quincys bridge crew, including the captain.

To prevent enemy fire from causing the GAU-8/A rounds to fire prematurely, armor plates of differing thicknesses between the aircraft skin and the drum are designed to detonate incoming shells.

Their design emphasized the vertical armour protection needed in short-range battles, where shells would strike the sides of the ship, and assumed that an outer plate of armour would detonate any incoming shells so that crucial internal structures such as turret bases needed only light protection against splinters.

INCOMING SHELL "That's one of the scariest sounds in war to me, knowing that a shell is coming in to explode near you.

On Thursday The Times of London quoted Javier Espinosa, a veteran Middle East journalist for the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, who described the noise of the incoming shell that killed Marie Colvin and Rémi Ochlik, and the scene afterward: "When the smoke cleared the picture was shocking," he wrote.

Combined with the compelling urgency of Herr's narration – every line set down as if it's about to be interrupted by incoming shell-fire – there's Herr's mesmerising voice itself, perhaps the single greatest achievement of a book that, nearly 40 years on, offers the definitive account of war in our time, especially the Vietnam war – among the most terrible of the postwar wars.

The current Phalanx, which can compute the trajectory of an incoming shell and fire 4,500 rounds per minute, was good for $300 million of contracts last year from the U.S. and allies.

Those who do relate the experience with a gritty black humour – you might hear the tale of a parrot that learned to mimic the whistle of an incoming shell, unwittingly sending people diving for cover.