Sentence examples for unexploded artillery from inspiring English sources

From journalistic accounts, he learned details like how the Chechens would upend toilet bowls over unexploded artillery shells.

The state will reopen most of the trails in a popular Hudson Valley park that were closed to hikers three years ago when unexploded artillery shells were discovered there.

It's hard to redevelop the 55,260-acre Jefferson Proving Ground (closed in 1994) in southern Indiana because over 85% of its terrain is littered with unexploded artillery shells.

Land mines, unexploded artillery shells, and cluster munitions are every bit as effective during peacetime as they are during war.

We didn't find any bomblets next to the casings — although while lifting a shell to read a serial number, one of us found an unexploded artillery shell underfoot — but the damage they have done in the area has been devastating.

He urged the population to exercise extreme caution, due to the large quantities of unexploded artillery and mortar shells strewn across the countryside.

Field engineers of the contingent destroyed over 5,000 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) ranging from artillery shells, through RPG rockets to grenades.

(The borrow site is near an old artillery practice range off Sandy Hook, and the dredge sometimes sucks up unexploded ordnance).

But that military heritage involved artillery testing, and Mr. McCarthy realized that Hurricane Sandy might have uncovered unexploded ordnance.

Unexploded ordnance (UXO) is a term used to denote any kind of explosive weapons, such as bombs, grenades, and artillery shells, that have been used but have not yet exploded - "duds," in other words - and that retain the potential to detonate.

Unexploded ordnance hides along country roads.