Sentence examples for mortar ammunition from inspiring English sources

Some carried five-gallon jugs of water, others hauled stretchers, rockets, mortar ammunition or bundles of plastic explosives and spools of time-fuse and detonating cord.

General Hafiz, whose immaculate office is filled with empty mortar ammunition boxes turned into flower pots, said that the cave was 50 yards deep.

The Apache opens fire, and two Iraqis fling themselves out of the Bongo as the heavy shells blast the truck and cause its stock of mortar ammunition to "cook off".

A convoy of Marines going the other way had trucks of mortar ammunition.

Meanwhile, what mortar ammunition they did have had been largely used up on the Australians during the previous evening.

With no mortar ammunition left, the British had to use their PIATs and machine-guns to stop the attack.

No mortar or ammunition were found inside the van, officials said, but soldiers did find an 82-millimeter mortar near the place where the van had stopped during the chase.

Among the other boats were fast-attack craft and some built for naval suicide-missions.According to the army, whose reports cannot be verified, it has also found improvised mortar launchers, ammunition dumps, sophisticated transmission equipment, armour-plated vehicles and heavy machinery used to dig deep "moats" around Tiger bases.

I did see Palestinian fighters among the dead and wounded, but the P.L.O. had hidden its fighters, as well as tons of war matériel — rockets, mortars, howitzer shells, ammunition, and more — in an extensive network of tunnels.

Later that day, and in the weeks that followed, Israeli soldiers used extreme force to clear the area: teargas dropped by drones, mortars, live ammunition.

The Obama administration quietly blessed the shipments to Libya of machine guns, automatic rifles, mortars and ammunition, but American officials later grew concerned as evidence grew that Qatar was giving the weapons to Islamic militants there.