Sentence examples for type of artillery from inspiring English sources

Zopyrus of Tarentum is mentioned twice, in a treatise on siege-engines by Biton (3rd or 2nd century BCE), as the inventor of an advanced form of the type of artillery known as the belly-bow (Marsden 1971, 74 77).

The worker later opened the package and discovered two "small devices" that appeared to be some type of "artillery simulators that looked like some type of military ordinance or memento".

The gradual improvement of the internal combustion engine promised a replacement for the horse, but it saw relatively little application until the middle of World War I and then only for heavier types of artillery.

In his speech, Dr. Allawi said it was time to start supplying the new Iraqi Army with enough heavy weapons and armored vehicles to fight the insurgency, which is well armed with AK-47 rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and various types of artillery shells.

Batteries were built between adjacent forts; these were fortifications containing various types of artillery, located along the fortress' outer lines and usually erected on the hills.

These divisions also had armored personnel vehicles such as the BMP-1, scout vehicles such as the BRDM-2, and several types of artillery.

A small number of colonists had training in the operation of cannon and other types of artillery; these were the only effective weapons for attacking significant stone or wooden defenses.

In military usage, a gun is a cannon with a high muzzle velocity and comparatively flat trajectory, as opposed to other types of artillery, such as howitzers or mortars, which have lower muzzle velocities, and usually fire indirectly.

Katyusha multiple rocket launchers are a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union in World War II.

The Stokes Mortar was rapidly developed when it became clear that some type of weapon was needed to provide artillery-like fire support to the infantry.

A South Korean official said the weapon is thought to be a new type of long-range artillery, news agency Yonhap reported, though nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis warned that Seoul had previously misidentified similar weapons.