Sentences with phrase «artillery at»

Players will have a variety of artillery at their disposal, each with its own specialty.

His great - great - grandfather, Robert Pratt, served with the 1st Connecticut Artillery at the Siege of Petersburg, the ten - month campaign which bled white the Confederate Army and led to Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

It is illogical to leave your number one artillery at home going for a tough battle.

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters)- Iran deployed on Monday a dozen tanks supported by artillery at the border with Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, a Kurdish official told Reuters.

Not exact matches

«We know we can shoot HIMARS [High Mobility Artillery Rocket System] off the flight deck of a ship,» Neller said during remarks at the at the Marine Corps League's annual Modern Day Marine expo in Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 21, according to Defense News.

When she finished in January 1945, her calculus teacher showed her a flier soliciting women mathematicians to work at the University of Pennsylvania, where women were working as «computers» — humans who performed routinized math tasks — mainly calculating artillery trajectory tables for the Army.

Destroying those batteries would require a significant air campaign, and in the meantime, North Korean artillery would be firing at the South.

The M982 Excalibur 155 mm round leaves the barrel of an M777 Howitzer during a live - fire shoot conducted by Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, at Oro Grande Range Complex, N.M., Dec. 5,2012.

Jamie Gray, wife of U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit shooter Staff Sgt. Hank Gray, bites her Olympic gold medal after winning the women's 50 - meter rifle 3 - positions event, Aug. 4, 2012, at the Royal Artillery Barracks range in London.

The United Nations human rights expert on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Tuesday at a sharply escalation in hostilities in Kachin state, citing reports of the army using aerial bombings, heavy weapons and artillery fire on civilian areas near China.

1st Lt. Stephen Robarge, left, 2nd Battalion, 17th Field Artillery Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division Artillery, completes a set of 80 pushups as Staff Sgt. Justin Mannucci, right, of 864th Engineer Battalion, 555th Engineer Brigade, 7th Infantry Division, keeps score during a 7th Infantry Division Bayonet Warrior Athlete Program competition at Cowan Stadium on Lewis Main April 26.

Sorry to disagree with you but I have no problem with putting muslim «tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time to do so.

However, after an exchange of artillery fire at South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island that killed two soldiers in 2010, the South Korean government allowed the tree to be reinstated, despite heated protests from North Korea.

Although the country at present is in a state of historically unprecedented prosperity, here and there in Budapest a building pockmarked by artillery (German, Soviet from World War II, or Soviet from the 1956 rising) recalls the country's unhappy past.

North Korea has fired artillery shells at a South Korean island, and South Korean forces have struck back.

Gin Magazine has announced the winners of its first Icons of Gin awards at prestigious dinner at London's Honourable Artillery Company.

Rechnitzer reports that at a depth of 7,000 feet off the Marianas he came upon an unexploded five - inch artillery projectile.

Instead of bringing on impact players at the 75 minute how about playing the first half defensively and then bringing on the heavy artillery from the first whistle of the second half in the form of Sanchez.

Oxford University 40 — 0 Cambridge University Held March 6, 2014 at the Honourable Artillery Club, London By David Lawrenson...

The U.S. Army Reserve Center will be firing 105 mm artillery (13 gun salute) «BLANK» rounds directly pointing west from their location at 1515 West Central Road in Arlington Heights.

For safety reasons, the Old Sturbridge Village cannon will fire only blanks, as do all artillery pieces demonstrated at the Village.

Existing facilities at Wimbledon and Lord's Cricket Ground, the lake at Eton Dorney and the historic Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich will all be used, as will the Dome in Greenwich.

Ninety years ago today, my father's father was an American infantryman in France, and I wonder if he actually heard the sound: for four years, the artillery of both sides had belched shells non-stop, battering away at the siege lines dug into the mud of Europe.

The founder of the NDC Jerry John Rawlings this afternoon disappointed hundreds of Ghanaians who were expecting him to throw «artillery» and «barrage» at the party's 25th Anniversary rally at the Ashaiman Mandela Park in the Greater Accra Region.

The UK's largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), sends its congratulations to Peter Wilson for winning gold in the men's double trap final, a competition in which two clay targets are launched simultaneously in front of the shooter, at the Royal Artillery Barracks.

Shooting events for the London Games are to be held at the Royal Artillery Barracks site at Woolwich where roads will be closed to secure a «sufficient safety zone».

The panel recommended that TS - Y International Limited should pay N27, 452,970 as withholding tax on a contract for the procurement of spare parts for artillery guns between November 2008 and December 2009 at the cost of N549, 059,400.00

«The follow up operation which was conducted by the Nigerian Air Force and 38 Task Force Artillery Brigade, 8 Division, Operation LAFIYA DOLE, was targeted at destroying Boko Haram infrastructure and logistics; such as communication centers, fabrication yards, bomb making equipment, vehicles and other means of sustenance.

At the church, the coffin will be transferred to a gun carriage drawn by the King's Troop Royal Artillery.

On a daily basis, the NPP gives us heavy ammunitions to hit at them via its GROSS FAILURES and maladministration and so we must direct our heavy artillery firepower at the FAILING AND LYING NPP Government, instead of hitting at ourselves internally.

Troops of 33 Artillery Brigade, in the ongoing Operation Lafiya Dole on Saturday, encountered members of militia massing up at Burra Junction in Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

Ignoring his painful wound and the withering hail of enemy fire being directed at him from three sides, he continued to relay artillery and air strike requests from his platoon leader who was also wounded.

Troops of 33 Artillery Brigade, in the ongoing Operation Lafiya Dole on Saturday, encountered members of militia massing up at Burra Junction in Ningi Local Government...

Troops of 33 Artillery Brigade, in the ongoing Operation Lafiya Dole on fighting patrol, on Saturday 17th March 2018 at about 12:30 pm encountered members of militia group massing up at Burra Junction in Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

Brigade Commander of 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, Basil Adoke, who disclosed this on Sunday said the strategy is aimed at addressing security challenges in the state and its environs.

Thirty three officers of the Nigerian Army were on Monday promoted to various ranks at the 302 Artillery Regiment, Onitsha as reward for exemplary performances.

He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 6th Field Artillery (Strike), 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum, NY.

DailyPost also gathered that over 20 military men were killed during attacks at Pompomari outpost, NAF headquarters gate, Staff Quarters outpost, 333 Artillery regiment, 707 / Airport, while four innocent civilians were also shot dead by insurgents at Kofa outskirts.

Raffles, too, reported that even at a distance of eight hundred miles, «showers of ashes covered the houses, the streets, and the fields, to the depth of several inches; and amid this darkness explosions were heard at intervals, like the report of artillery or the noise of distant thunder.»

This article by Scott P. Hippensteel of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte describes how carbonate rocks produced rolling terrain that limited the range and effectiveness of both artillery and small arms.

In tests, it fired a 105 - kilowatt beam — enough to destroy rockets, mortars and artillery shells — at a stationary target for 5 minutes.

«I believe delivery of the sulfide gas into the stratosphere is envisaged either by artillery shell, high - altitude weather balloon or aircraft,» Ian Stimpson, a senior lecturer on geophysics at Keele University, told Earther.

The event, created by Charly Lester, was held at the Honourable Artillery Company's Prince Consort Rooms in London.

The black tie event — which will be hosted by Channel 4 presenter Rick Edwards — will take place on November 13th at the Prince Consort Rooms of the Honourable Artillery Company building in East London, near Old Street tube station.

In fact at one point my socal life seemed to be becoming an intricate web of artillery officers.

Guys I met on Tinder knew my friends, and I even realised very recently that one of my closest friends and I were simultaneously on dates with two Artillery Officers who had once dated twins at the same time!

Last Thursday night, I stood at the doorway of the Prince Consort Rooms of the Honorable Artillery Company — an incredible, old military building in the heart of London, as 270 members of the UK Dating Industry took to the red carpet, dressed in black tie.

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On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....

War Pigeons sees teams attempting to capture messenger pigeons at the start of the match, which they must then carry to a safe spot to help call in artillery strikes against the opposing team.