These are unguided weapons, and given the weight of the system, they constitute less of a threat than do mortars. |
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This enemy force aggressively assaulted the Australians using rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machine guns. |
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The obvious need was for suppressive counter-battery artillery fire and more infantry support weapons such as mortars and grenades. |
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The most important of these were the bolt action rifle and the machine gun, and hand grenades and mortars. |
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The incessant firings from cannons, mortars, tanks, machine-guns and automatics continue throughout the night. |
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At first, it was just small arms but the big guns and mortars started shooting as the afternoon wore on. |
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The Warrior adapts to a range of roles with weapon fits ranging from machine pistols to 90 mm guns, mortars and missile systems. |
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Rocket propelled grenades, mortars, and other explosive devices cause concussive shock blasts damaging to the brain. |
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When one and one half miles from the castle, the enemy opened some 68 pounders and mortars upon the precious little craft. |
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Stone walls with fragile mortars can be damaged by high pressure sprays and the chemicals used. |
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Before they could even reach their planned forward positions, dozens of mortars came raining in. |
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After that we went to different spots and they showed us different positions to set the mortars for concealment and cover and things like that. |
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They had smuggled small artillery pieces and more than 100 small mortars across the US patrolled border. |
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A carpenter or carver of mortars and spoons might become a sculptor of statues. |
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Efflorescence is caused when soluble salts and other water dispersible materials come to the surface of concrete and mortars. |
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Liquid and powder admixtures are available for shotcrete applications and for modifying patching mortars. |
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In other words, they were aiming their mortars to land closer to the actual runway of the airport. |
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We expected mortars to be added to the rifle and machinegun fire, but the Germans did not use them. |
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Much laughter has been heard, with the staccato of chopping and the thud of pestles meeting mortars. |
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Following weeks of firefights, mortars punished the site from above, nearly destroying the camp's latrine. |
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Government forces used mortars, helicopter gunships and airplanes to bombard rebel positions. |
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The name was a hangover from the First World War, when the larger mortars were employed to lay down smoke or gas. |
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The Marines had to bail over the high sides of the amtracs taking heavy fire from machine guns and mortars. |
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A spokesman for the Polish-led forces reportedly said the insurgents used a car bomb, mortars and machine guns. |
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Howitzers and mortars are more effective because of their ability to engage targets on reverse slopes. |
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Included were artillery shells, phosphorous flares, mortars, incendiaries and cluster bombs. |
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Woodcarvers, all of whom are men, carve masks and figurines as well as mortars, pestles, and bowls. |
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Fittings include feeding cups, mortars and pestles, pill-making machines, bench balances, and glass measures. |
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Long and short range artillery, rockets, missiles, howitzers, and mortars rained fire and death from the sky. |
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A couple of unexploded mortars are also found and dealt with before the convoy swings for home, moving with extreme caution. |
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They might house listening posts, artillery observers, snipers, or trench mortars. |
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The soldiers will find a heaving city of misery, mortars and stray bullets. |
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North Korea recently accused South Korea of bringing trench mortars into the Demilitarized Zone in violation of the armistice agreement, which ended the 1950-1953 Korean War. |
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Their Chinese opponents were supported by powerful artillery and mortars, and adept in the continual nightly patrolling contest in no-man's land between the lines. |
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In addition to seven cars rigged with explosives, the guardsmen found 30 rocket-propelled grenades, high-powered rifles, mortars and remote control detonators. |
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Leaf samples were ground in small mortars in liquid nitrogen. |
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Now, the Marines and Iraqi soldiers uncovered this elaborate series of bunkers with large stores of heavy weapons, including rockets and mortars, ammunition and supplies. |
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They had tanks and mortars and all sorts of armaments provided by the American taxpayer. |
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Originally developed to route cracks in concrete for repairs with sealants and repair mortars, these bits make decorative V-shaped, chamfered joints possible. |
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Flexibility in rapidly delivering ammunition to outlying firebases was crucial because mortars and howitzers were emplaced throughout the theater. |
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In 1848, U.S. siege batteries, composed of howitzers, guns, and mortars, proved essential in the Battle of Chapultepec and the capture of Mexico City. |
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What is noticeable is that ISIS is bombarding the town with tank shells and mortars less than it was before. |
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Although their basic weapon is the rifle, they possess modern heavy weapons, including antiaircraft missile systems, recoilless rifles, and mortars. |
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Use traditional lime mortars rather than leaving external stone undressed. |
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Products on display included automotive rubber parts like oil seals, o-rings and gaskets, clutches and brakes and acid resisting bricks and mortars. |
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But irregular Ukrainian troops armed with first-class rifles, mortars, and explosive devices would do Russian troops great damage. |
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Roving tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, artillery pieces, and mortars are key to enhancing the aggressiveness of defense. |
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The two sides have exchanged heavy fire using guns, artillery and mortars. |
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Soldiers said they were attacked with artillery, tanks, mortars and grad missiles. |
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From behind the grass covered ramparts above, mortars and heavy guns on the surrounding terreplein would provide heavy bombardment against the enemy. |
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Underneath, a typical caption would describe the importance of such cheap forms of mobile artillery, especially for a country short on mortars and self-propelled artillery. |
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Marines searched the compound to find several rooms piled high with deadly mortars, anti-tank guns, bazookas, rockets and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. |
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They had their foremasts removed and their hulls reinforced with massive oak timbers to accommodate one or two powerful sea mortars of either 10-inch or 13-inch caliber. |
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What we heard sounded to me like mortars, though that's an educated guess. |
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Museums display a few French cast iron mortars, and in the 17th and 18th centuries fine decorated firebacks were cast in the Sussex and Kentish Weald. |
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It was a feud between mafiosi who rubbed each other out with mortars or cannons. |
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All types of artillery were used in mountainous terrain, but mortars, mountain guns, and howitzers proved by far the most adapted to action on difficult, rugged terrain. |
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As mortars aboard the ammunition truck exploded, they set a nearby fuel tanker truck ablaze, sending clouds of black smoke billowing into the sky. |
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The Tamil Tigers, who are seeking a homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka, used rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and mortars in the attack, the spokesman said. |
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Clean ocean sand was added to the mortars to facilitate crushing. |
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In PS 731, Terry Blount suggested that repairmen for howitzers and mortars keep a personal copy of TM 9-1000-202-14, Evaluation of Cannon Tubes. |
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In the early hours of 9 May 1993, the Croatian Defence Council attacked Mostar using artillery, mortars, heavy weapons and small arms. |
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Spotted by 42 Commando, they were engaged with L16 81mm mortars and forced to withdraw to Two Sisters mountain. |
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By 20 March deployment of German trench mortars had been reported by deserters, and British artillery began some spoiling fire. |
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The attack inflicted at least 225 casualties and resulted in the capture of 212 prisoners, a battery of artillery pieces and mortars. |
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Vicat published his work following research of the use of lime mortars whilst building bridges and roads in his work. |
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The French company Vicat still currently produce natural cements and lime mortars. |
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They are used for small arms, mortars and artillery smoke and illuminating shells. |
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Earlier, the fighters loaded machineguns and mortars into the trucks and packed bags for the trip. |
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The Germans unleashed a tornado of artillery and rifle fire, grenades, hand bombs and trench mortars. |
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An unprecedented 1,160,000 shells, both high-explosive and gas, were 'red from 6,500 German guns and 3,500 trench mortars. |
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Pickerings Lifts made trench mortars and components for Bailey Bridges and floating pontoon bridges during the Second World War. |
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Other war materials produced included shells, mobile workshops for the Royal Engineers, and trench mortars. |
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They then started firing trench mortars onto the 9th Lancers with terrible accuracy. |
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Some can be identified as housing German Minenwerfers because of their rectangular openings in the roof for firing trench mortars. |
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Initially, the Japanese troops lived in tents, but to defend against trench mortars, two containers were stacked. |
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Content of superplasticizer was kept constant in each part of research and established experimentally to obtain flowable mortars. |
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The core components of its products are high-performance polysulphides and fast-curing epoxy mortars. |
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It complements weapons such as mortars, field artillery cannons, close air support, attack helicopters, guided missiles, and naval surface fire. |
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You will be firing down on them, and you can use everything you have, even mortars. You will cut them to pieces. |
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In May this year, two members of Royal Logistics Corps died after fired mortars into Logis the Taliban Ouellette, the northmost British FOB in the region. |
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They called German artillery shells fired from 77mm field guns whizzbangs and British trench mortars which were fired from Howitzers were toffee apples. |
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Visitors entered through the rear of a 'shell-ruined' building, descending into the winding trench system, complete with rifle rests and platforms for trench mortars. |
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He was serving in Afghan-istan when he spotted a weapons hold, forced his way in, arrested nine hostile soldiers and seized guns, mortars and ammunition. |
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Hair reinforcement is not found in lime mortars, but is common in lime plaster and many types of hair and other organic fibres can be found in historic plasters. |
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Names of lime mortars were so varied and conflicting across the European continent that the reclassification has greatly improved the understanding and use of lime mortars. |
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In practice, lime mortars are often protected from direct sunlight and wind with damp hessian sheeting or sprayed with water to control the drying rates. |
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This aids its use for mortars as it makes a mortar easier to work with. |
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Excavations at Aguateca uncovered a number of scribal artefacts from the residences of elite status scribes, including palettes and mortars and pestles. |
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The mortars in the boats could not aid us as they were too far away. |
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The reason for this is that static above ground forts can not survive modern direct or indirect fire weapons larger than mortars, RPGs and small arms. |
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It had 400 artillery pieces bolstered by heavy artillery and mortars. |
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His lecture notes for instructing platoon members include advice on street fighting, field fortifications, and the use of mortars of various kinds. |
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All iron mortars now in use have gomer chambers and brass ones conical. |
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Cluck said Paladins have become a vital piece in the counterfire missions against enemy mortars and rockets that are core to field artillery in Operation Iraqi Freedom. |
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