Sentence examples for shooting mortars from inspiring English sources

We hold competitions -- shooting mortars, cannons, muskets, carbines and revolvers at targets.

In daylight, soldiers visit Iraqi police checkpoints, questioning and frisking drivers and searching trunks, hoping their presence disrupts militants who have been shooting mortars at their outpost.

An AC-130 Specter gunship also strafed the area, trying to kill guerrillas shooting mortars at a nearby American base from a landfill, local residents said.

Roman, the deputy commander of a frontline rebel base in the suburb of Andreyevka, said government forces had shot mortars and cannon at them at about 10pm on Monday.

There is a cannon that shoots mortars and these mortars can blast your body to bits.

But until yesterday night they shot mortar shells and planted improvised explosive devices in Hayaniya's streets.

In the Shiite holy city of Najaf, where occupation forces are in a tense standoff with Moktada al- Sadr, fighters with his militia shot mortar rounds at a Spanish base, said Muhammad Garawi, a spokesman for Mr. Sadr.

They were shooting from mortars, grenade launchers, and large-calibre machine guns.

When the enemy shoots mortars or rockets at the thousands of soldiers, marines, and civilian contractors living on our F.O.B. (forward operating base), we shoot back.

She said her daughter had described how Russian coastguards started shooting guns and mortars into the air when activists tried to get at the oil platform.

"They shout, 'God is great,' and then they shoot a mortar," said Masim Wahab, one of Mr. Karim's neighbors.