Sentence examples for shoulder weapons from inspiring English sources

Since the 16th century, soldiers have carried handguns to supplement their basic shoulder weapons.

He carried hand grenades, he carried shoulder weapons with what he called his Al Qaeda brothers.

With armour-piercing power no longer necessary, muskets could be made smaller, and shoulder weapons without rests became the norm.

Dating from the 16th century, the earliest practical pistols typically were single-shot muzzle-loading arms employing wheel-lock or various flintlock ignition systems, and they evolved simultaneously with shoulder weapons such as the harquebus, musket, and fowling gun.

Even so, the old system is still used today to march, train, and review troops, while the modern infantry, aside from elite marksmen, continue to fire their shoulder weapons at very close ranges, much as they did in the Civil War.

Shotgun, smoothbore shoulder weapon designed to fire a number of pellets, or shot, that spread in a diverging pattern after they leave the muzzle.

Blunderbuss, short, muzzle-loading shoulder weapon, usually a flintlock, with a wide smooth bore flared at the muzzle to a maximum width of about 4 inches (10 centimetres).

It was late morning on a busy Friday, with thousands of men — many in wool caps and shouldering weapons — waiting to witness Fazlullah deliver his weekly sermon.

Then they will shoulder their weapons and do everything they can to protect our country's vital interests in Iraq, and win this war.

"What they have is shoulder-fired weapons, and rocket-propelled grenades".

It is not known whether the Iranians were able to buy any more of the advanced shoulder-fired weapons.