How To Use Small-arm In A Sentence
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In addition to the skills necessary to fly their missions, Commando Helicopter Force members are trained in small-arms weapons as well as tactics and survival fieldcraft.
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Hardly had we finished the meal when the rat-tat, rat-tat of small-arms showed that the British were approaching.
With Steyn and De Wet
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They had been trained in physical fitness and swimming, self-defense and small-arms shooting, first aid and seamanship, firefighting and the proper way to pack a seabag.
Come Again No More
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The introduction of the conoidal bullet in the mid-nineteenth century greatly increased the range, accuracy, and striking power of small-arms fire, and in the Civil War rifle fire accounted for most battle casualties.
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Once it was small-arms fire, now it is mines and bombs.
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As for the role of the small-arms trade, although an adolescent brandishing an AK-47 is certainly terrifying, most child soldiers never touch a weapon.
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Gordon and his fellow sniper, while under intense small-arms fire from the enemy, fought their way through a dense maze of shanties and shacks to reach the critically injured crew members.
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The vehicles will provide increased protection against grenades, improvised explosive devices, and small-arms fire.
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By the end of the 19th century, regimental standards and colours were driven from the battlefield by the increasing range and accuracy of small-arms fire.
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The US military acknowledged that the helicopter was likely brought down by small-arms fire or a projectile fired from the ground.
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Next second, teapots and sausages explode into the air, and the rat-a-tat of small-arms fire sends everyone diving for cover.
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By the end of the 19th century, regimental standards and colours were driven from the battlefield by the increasing range and accuracy of small-arms fire.
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The door, designed to withstand small-arms fire and intense heat and shock, also has a digital lock and a steel deadbolt.
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He'll do 2,000 yards of swimming every morning; he'll rappel down any cliff he needs to; he will shake off any small-arms fire as if it were a swarm of gnats.
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Next second, teapots and sausages explode into the air, and the rat-a-tat of small-arms fire sends everyone diving for cover.
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The ambassador was driving for an unscheduled appointment when his convoy was raked with small-arms gunfire, but the ambassador wasn't injured.
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At the Huniya Base, a massive weapons storage facility on the outskirts of the eastern rebel-controlled city of Ajdabiya, 35 warehouses and at least a dozen underground armories were filled with heavy weaponry, including helicopter-mounted anti-tank rockets, anti-aircraft missiles and 122-millimeter Katyusha rockets, along with thousands of rounds of small-arms ammunition.
A Rebel Army Struggles to Ready for Battle
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After the Civil War, small-arms technology evolved rapidly, but a penurious Congress and an intractable ordnance board balked at rearming an entire army.
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Dorn found small-arms ammunition, hoarded by the officers for as long as eight years, “so incrusted with filth and corrosion as to be useless, while warehouses nearby are stocked with tens of millions of new American ammunition sic.”
The Last Empress
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The oil-soaked ramp, which had been rendered inoperative when small-arms fire damaged the helicopter's utility hydraulics, was stuck in the down position.
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Clouds of brown smoke from burning corn and the thatched root's of villages rolled across the battlefield under a gentle westerly breeze, streaked at intervals with the black, oily discharge of a flaming tank; the continuous rattle and chatter of small-arms fire was overlaid by a steady cannonade from the Russian 76-mm. 's and the scream of Katyusha rockets; periodically the high-pitched slap of the 88-mm. 's told of the Tigers 'defending themselves some three to four miles away.
Barbarossa
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The occasional sound of small-arms fire punctuated the lunchtime action at the company command post.
