Sentence examples for platoon in which from inspiring English sources

In the U.S. Army the rifle company in 1945 had a strength of 6 officers and 187 men and was composed of a company headquarters, three rifle platoons of three squads each, and a weapons platoon in which were placed light, crew-served weapons for close-fire support.

Volvo has perfected a simple auto-drive system called platooning, in which its cars autonomously follow a professional driver.

V2V would also allow vehicles to travel together in platoons or "road trains", making more efficient use of road capacity.A consortium of European companies has tested five-vehicle platoons in which the lead vehicle is controlled by a human driver and the other four travel close behind it under autonomous control.

The case used for testing and evaluating the methods was an automated truck platooning system in which both partial and full automation were studied.

Then there was Platoon, the lead role in which he also turned down.

A novel platoon model is established, in which the effect of time-varying delay, event-triggered scheme and probabilistic faults are involved.

Or perhaps he saw it as a game, a contest in which his platoon had triumphed.

When word broke several years back that Quentin Tarantino was working on a second world war romp in which a platoon of Jewish American soldiers set out to kill Hitler, not everyone was convinced it was a good idea.

Catherine Zeta-Jones provides an incongruous shot of glamour, playing a shady lady who shows up in Walmington-on-Sea claiming to be a journalist writing a feature about the Home Guard for The Lady magazine, but seems to be taking a close interest in the D-Day plans in which the platoon has somehow become farcically involved.

For gallantry on an operation in which his platoon came under fire in East Belfast, he was later awarded the Military Cross.

The platoon attacks a TV station in which Al-Asad was thought to be broadcasting live and then engages in urban combat in an unnamed city south of the capital.