Sentence examples for naval mortars from inspiring English sources
Aided by the corrections, the naval mortars wrecked many Confederate guns, allowing Pope's forces to capture New Madrid, Missouri, and the island on April 7 , 1862 but Foote made no mention of Steiner's contribution in his official report after the battle.
Think of an act of war: a torpedo is fired at a naval destroyer or a mortar round at an infantry platoon.
The line consisted of approximately 1,200 two- to three-story deep blockhouses, many of which emplaced naval guns or large-caliber mortars.
In some rural coastal areas where it was common for refugees to converge before boarding vessels to connect to the long-distance naval vessels taking them south, the Viet Minh installed mortars on the beaches to deter prospective immigrants.
7 Israel Hits Palestinian Base Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a Palestinian naval base, in what the army said was retaliation for mortars directed at a settlement.
After removal of the Oerlikon 20 mm cannon on the bow, each cutter was fitted with a combination over-under M2 Browning machine gun/MK 2 trigger and drop-fired 81mm mortar and loaded on merchant ships for shipment to U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay in the Philippines.
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.
China staged naval exercises there.
