(n.) Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.
(n.) Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.
(n.) The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.
(n.) The science of artillery or gunnery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather than being deterred, the Serbs drove forward with tanks, infantry and heavy artillery.
(2) Civilian buildings, including a mosque, reportedly came under fire from tanks and artillery in Misrata, the last rebel stronghold in the west of the country.
(3) On top of that, a campaign to retake the north will pit largely Shia soldiers against Sunni fighters and, if air power and artillery are used in civilian areas, will risk further alienating the population.
(4) The night before, my home town of Sarajevo had come under the heaviest artillery fire we had seen in the 52 days since the war began.
(5) We are an independent nation and we have a right to defend our people … Our lack of defensive capability triggers offensive attacks and brings escalation.” He suggested equipment Ukraine needs did not have to be lethal, saying that anti-artillery radar, communications and jamming technology would improve defences.
(6) By nightfall the Ukrainian forces were just 10 miles south of the city, bringing the two sides within artillery range of each other.
(7) Television news reports later said locals armed with clubs had blocked an artillery brigade moving toward Donetsk and forced it to turn around.
(8) Among dozens of other cases on which the military attorney general's office has yet to rule are those that involve the question of whether Israel's heavy use of artillery in an urban area – said to have shocked US officials – was proportionate and justified and over the invoking of the Hannibal Protocol, which saw large-scale destruction around Rafah during an attempt to rescue an Israeli officer who it was feared had been kidnapped.
(9) Qusair had come under heavy bombardment from artillery and shells dropped by the Syrian air force and rebel supply lines had been severed by regime forces to the north and east while Hezbollah had advanced from the south and west.
(10) It covered all conventional arms in the categories of battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large-calibre artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles and missile launchers, and small arms and light weapons.
(11) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
(12) "The artillery department gave the specs for a new weapon.
(13) Imagine the frustration of the likes of the Australian general Sir John Monash , engineer and polymath, who advocated of infantry, artillery, aircraft and tanks and was told he “lacked dash”.
(14) Rockets and artillery are directed at the airport and half a dozen districts, with the Zintanis replying in kind.
(15) Underpinning both will be the force troops, or "theatre troops", which will comprise all the units required to support the frontline – such as the artillery, engineers, signals, intelligence and medical corps.
(16) Zlitan's uprising began on Friday with battles around the town's hospital, but sources in Misrata say the rebels are now pinned into one district under heavy artillery fire.
(17) They have tanks and artillery supplied by the Russians and others against people who demonstrate peacefully.
(18) Government soldiers who were trying to tow a damaged ambulance out of the partly ruined town of Luhanske admitted that anyone who went further down the highway towards Debaltseve would come under heavy fire from rebel small arms and artillery.
(19) Sung-ha Joo, in his 40s, was a reservist artillery officer, in the North Korean military before he left in 2001.
(20) He added: "It may also fail to reduce the violence or shift the momentum because the regime relies overwhelmingly on surface fires – mortars, artillery, and missiles."
Gunnery
Definition:
(n.) That branch of military science which comprehends the theory of projectiles, and the manner of constructing and using ordnance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acrobatic and gunnery training flight phases were considered physical load, strong interpretative actions, and emotional stress tasks.
(2) Gunnery, radar, navigation, and other systems had suffered degraded performance because of operator errors.
(3) Wounded marine gunnery sergeant Jeremiah Purdie (centre) with stricken comrades in south Vietnam, 1966.
(4) The gunnery sergeant's actions earned him a Silver Star and Purple Heart, but cost him his career.
(5) The training was provided by a team of three: a battery commander surveillance targeting and acquisition battery (Maj); a sergeant major instructor in gunnery surveillance targeting and acquisition (WOII); and a troop staff sergeant and SME [subject matter expert in] surveillance targeting and acquisition battery (Staff Sgt).” The MoD also acknowledged there was an “ongoing engagement” between the Saudi and UK air forces over Storm Shadow.
(6) The training was provided by a team of four: a battery commander close support artillery battery (Maj); a battery captain close support artillery (Capt); a sergeant major instructor in gunnery close support artillery (WOII); and a detachment commander close support artillery (Sgt).” The MoD said the weapons-locating radar courses were “delivered to a mixed group of soldiers and officers from the RSLF field artillery”.
(7) In 1943 he was drafted into the US Army Air Corps, where he became a sharpshooter, a military policeman, a gunnery instructor, and a specialist in the prototypes of computer-aided bomb-sights and gun turrets.
(8) For the actual flight, the frequency decreased under takeoff and landing, and remained as at rest during the gunnery and acrobatic training flight.