Sentence examples for volley fire from inspiring English sources

Volley fire against massed troops delivered effective projectiles out to 200 yards, but at 300 yards balls from muzzle-loaders lost most of their lethality.

Weighing more than 2,000 pounds, it was mounted on a wheeled carriage and was usually employed in volley fire, all barrels discharging at once.

Also, while well-trained soldiers could load and shoot their muskets five times per minute, volley fire led to a collective rate of only two to three shots per minute.

However, the French were in no condition to press home their numerical advantage; British volley fire had taken its toll and Girard lost 2,000 men during the confrontation.

It would have taken a superhuman keeper to keep out the first-time volley – fired with power and accuracy into the top corner - with which Emana finished a flowing Betis counter-attack.

"A volley fired by German guns will be the closing point of the history of modern Poland," that was the pious desire of "peaceful and persecuted Germany". The message concluded by emphasising again that everyone knew that Poland had no aggressive intentions.

In the place of volley firing and frontal attacks, there was a greater emphasis on advancing in extended order, the use of available cover, the use of artillery to support the attack, flank and converging attacks and fire and movement.

Determined to lead by example, the U.S. military reinvents itself to meet the specific strategic requirements of fighting the undead: using semi-automatic, high-power rifles and volley firing, focusing on head shots and slow, steady rates of fire; and devising a multipurpose hand tool, the "Lobotomizer" or "Lobo" (described as a combination of a shovel and a battle axe), for close-quarters combat.

Eight officers returned fire — in two distinct volleys — firing 73 bullets and striking Mr. Webster twice, in his chest and hip.

Updated at 5.02pm BST 4.10pm BST Fifth set: Gulbis 6-7, 7-6, 6-2, 4-6, 5-3 Federer* Federer is going to make Gulbis suffer for this, serve-volley firing him to 40-0.

Miguel Layun's half-volley fired Watford ahead, but Ross Barkley equalised for Everton.