Sentences with phrase «mortar shells»

You're in a landing craft with your infantry regiment, ready to storm the beaches of Normandy while your commanding officer gives a pep talk, aircraft fly above, and mortar shells boom on the sides of the beach, splashing water in your face.

This was handled using the touchscreen, with a touch button on the left hand side to activate killstreaks, and the mortar interface showing the entire map on the full screen, letting you prod exactly where you want to be bombarded with mortar shells.

The battle scenes feel as if they are a part of real life, with pounding mortar shells and messy body parts.

There is a secret passageway, a slow - motion jaunt through a forest as bullets and mortar shells tear apart the trees, and a shootout on a speeding train.

Mortar shells sparked a major fire in the Nabi Yunus market in east Mosul on Sunday, reportedly killing at least two people and injuring many others.

Farmajo has already taken office following a handover ceremony last week during which al - Shabab fighters fired mortar shells near the presidential palace, killing two children at a nearby school.

Seven wounded, three of his buddies dead: Sgt. Michael Marzano, with whom Rice had spent his last morning in Iraq, trading tales at the shooting range; Sgt. Aaron Cepeda, who had tried to pull Rice out of his wrecked Humvee as mortar shells rained down; Lcpl.

Mortar shells dropped all around as two Marines pried away the curled metal that had pinned Rice's right foot.

Miller shows that what is courage in hand - to - hand combat is foolishness in meeting a hail of bullets and plain stupidity in standing up to mortar shells.

In recent years, Rafael has been striving to develop a new defense system that will provide a solution for mortar shells, which Iron Dome is incapable of intercepting, due to their short range.

Next down from these rockets are two types of Kassam rockets: improvised locally produced rockets and mortar shells, which the terrorist fire mostly at communities close to the fence surrounding the Gaza Strip.

Iron Dome is incapable of intercepting mortar shells, and their short flying time makes it difficult to provide adequate warning to residents of these areas.

Ginsburg (2015) reports that batteries intercepted 735, or 91.99 percent, of the 799 rockets and mortar shells engaged during Protective Edge.

More recently, an Iron Dome battery fired at mortar shells falling outside of Israel (Shoval and Brenner 2016).

My distaste for these little saccharine mortar shells is widely documented, and it has not changed.

In 2016, a system fired at mortar shells falling outside of Israel.

They claimed 735 rocket and mortar shell interceptions.

In the event of mortar shelling in this region, people have only seconds to take cover.

I took away with me a piece of shrapnel from a mortar shell that had killed a four - year - old girl just two weeks before.

Zemen, a student from Baghdad, was injured when a mortar shell landed at her high school in 2006.

Milliseconds after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonates, a blink after a mortar shell blows, an overpressurization wave engulfs the human body, and just as quickly, an underpressure wave follows and vanishes.

(The camera shakes in a uniquely unsettling, knock - you - off - your - bearingsway with each mortar shell.)

Whether that actually a good thing or more of a Trojan Horse to smuggle in more hyper macho battle scenes and slow motion sequences of giant mortar shell casings falling to the ground (because big guns are so awesome, guys, right?)

Given the randomness of the game - where the first mortar shell in a barrage lands, if a tank shell penetrates or deflects - these small changes to stats really aren't noticeable in - game.

Sound effects include walking, running, reloading, shooting at enemies and enemies returning fire, explosions, distant mortar shelling and more besides, alongside a period soundtrack composed by Wilbert Roget II having previously composed soundtracks for Star Wars: The Old Republic and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris.

Not exact matches

That means they can «fail fast,» testing products with the rapidity of a tech company, and tap e-commerce and digital advertising instead of breaking into bricks and mortar and shelling out millions for TV ads.

First enacted in 1934 as a reaction to the St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, it required registration with the federal government, and placed a heavy (for the time) transfer tax on what was categorized as NFA firearms: fully automatic, shotguns and rifles with barrels less than 18», firearms that had a bore larger than.5», explosive devices (grenades) and projectiles (mortar and cannon shells), and silencers.

UN testimonies said numerous shells fell within the vicinity of the school and journalists on the scene reported debris consistent with mortar rounds.

The GE layers provided below depict evidence of bomb shell craters, destroyed permanent structures and mortar emplacements in and around the Civilian Safety Zone.

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

Then pestle and mortar the crap out of them to yield a very fine powder (as drinking down little chunks of egg shells is not too appealing).

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.

There are flying Monovisions, Breaker Tubes with powerful shells of armor that can only be destroyed by mortar fire or explosive cannons, and massive mini-boss variants known as the Big Willie or Volt Dropper.

It was in the dying seconds that I picked up the mortar, a weapon requiring both careful aim and a heap of luck, and proceeded to crush the final enemy push by shelling them at their spawn.

A gamer may think that the windmill which they observe is actually a hearty fortification, but then find out that it is a tank shell or perhaps an explosive mortar to completely destroy the building.

Mario Kart, Extreme - G, Blur — these are the games I can contend in (just barely), because I can leverage missiles and mortars and heat - seeking koopa shells against my fellow racers.

You can see craters being formed by tank shells, mortars and anti tank grenades.

For Whom the Shell Tolls (Bronze Trophy) Destroy all targets during the mortar sequence with only 4 shells in «Back on the Grid.».

You don't baby step your way away from an incoming artillery shell, mortar or hand grenade.

Opting to keep the store's original masonry shell and mortar joint facade, (fer) studio opened up the space to light by raising the lobby ceiling up to 40 feet high and adding a glass spine that ascends through all three floors.

Mortar fireworks — which generally consist of a tube and reloadable artillery shells that are lit and fired one at a time — are bestsellers, he says.

I also like forcing myself to go to the brick - and - mortar equivalent of some online stores to make SURE I really love a gotta - have item from their site before shelling out the dollars.