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Where's the cannon?
Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.
War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.
It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer
Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
A bunker, truck, trolls, all the same, a hard target.
cannon used. The night of the grand festivity
But as some muskets so contrive it
As oft to miss the mark they drive at,
And though well aimed at dock or plover
Bear wide, and kick their owners over.
You are your own best weapon. Kestrel
The rifle is the queen of weapons and its effective use is one of the greatest satisfactions available to man.
toward the Mount.4
La-Z-Boy type thing covered with bronze and silver gears. Kronos slashed, and I managed to jump straight up onto the seat. The throne whirred and hummed with secret mechanisms. Defense mode, it warned. Defense mode.
Archers are pretty focused.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.
Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!
Expressive glances Shall be our lances And pops of Sillery Our light artillery.
Every shot that kills ricochets.
I'm not getting much penetration here!" Gibbs yelled.
"Aim for an open mouth!" Walsh barked. "It's their weakest point! When you empty the cartridge, load armour piercing rounds!"
Alan shouted, "For the record, I'm very uncomfortable firing ballistics inside a space ship!
Sarah drops her spent handgun and grabs some crazy-looking lightweight machine gun, the kind of thing I used to believe didn't exist outside of action movies.
"You know how to use that thing?" I ask.
"They all work pretty much the same," she replies. "You just point and click.
Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.
Our house was a castle, turreted and open to the sky.
Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
crowning the ramparts, drawing an uneven star shape around the entire model. She finds the opening atop the walls where four ceremonial cannons point to
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.
That Mossberg," Boris said to me, accepting the bottle passed over the front seat. "Evil dirty thing. Sawed off
? sprays pellets here to Hamburg. Aim it way the fuck away from everyone and still you will hit half the people in the room.
The true battlefield is within.
Since this used to be a Martian ship, I thought maybe you'd have reloads that would fit our racks." "Sure," Captain Tseng said without a moment's hesitation. "I'll have the destroyer Sally Ride pull alongside for munitions transfer.
The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.
The bullets are gun-eggs," Collingswood said to Baron, looking at Vardy. Farmers squeezing their holy metal beasts to percussive climax, fertilisation by cordite expulsion, violent ovipositors. Seeking warm places full of nutrients, protecting baby guns deep in the bone cages, until they hatched.
Is Russian artillery," he says. "Mostly hits right target. Mostly.
If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.
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commander like this one. Ser
If I have a bow and arrow, Commander, I don't shoot a padded shaft to my target's left in order to express my annoyance. I fire a steel-tipped arrow into his leg.
be raised only by the Royal Navy and replenishment, for Lowe's guns had
From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords are crossed the gun becomes useless.
Being shelled is the main work of an infantry soldier, which no one talks about. Everyone has his own way of going about it. In general, it means lying face down and contracting your body into as small a space as possible.
The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.
They're not shooting at us, they're not shooting at us," one infantry commander insisted, even as French artillery plastered his battalion.
Build: Vookworm, but tough
The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!
Our artillery ... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
Perched on top of the pointed nose of the
I was like a little boy playing war, yelling, Bang, bang! Gotcha!, and looking up to see a real Sherman tank rolling right at me. It
What the holy hand grenade was that?
In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.
Of AIM Sparrow and AIM Sidewinder missiles, nestled under the wings, hummed as they powered on,
The network of trenches and artillery below shows itself very clearly for a moment, and Werner feels he is gazing down into the circuitry of an enormous radio, each soldier down there an electron flowing single file down his own electrical path, with no more say in the matter than an electron has.
The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.
The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.
Their national muskets in a most explosive state of readiness, who stopped all comers and goers,
Archer "These sharpshooters like to keep their distance on the battlefield and in life. Nothing makes them happier than single-mindedly taking down their target.
the stern of my ship." "Indeed." Marianne said with a slight smile. Noah methodically poured gun powder into the barrel, then rammed the bullet inside with a ramrod. "Mr. Drummond, surely you know that bringing him here endangers my entire family.
Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!
Chief of security : They have a tank! How did they get a tank up here?
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.
Here they come, a tilting! Five hundred mailed and belted knights on bicycles!
In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an
unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.
Out here the prisoners see the shells smash into the city before they hear them. During the last war, Etienne knew artillerymen who could peer through field glasses and discern their shells' damage by the colors thrown skyward. Gray was stone. Brown was soil. Pink was flesh.
There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up.
The tide climbs. The moon hangs small and yellow and gibbous. On the rooftops of beachfront hotels to the east, and in the gardens behind them, a half-dozen American artillery units drop incendiary rounds into the mouths of mortars.
A fortress with an arsenal of weapons designed to stave off hungry,
The introduction of radar, a completely new way to see, in the Second World War altered the basis of warfare more profoundly than any of the inventions that had marked the industrialization of combat.
You do remember how dangerous I am with those?"
"Aye, that's the point. Everyone will duck and cover if they see you wielding these."
"Even my teammates?"
"Especially your teammates.
heavy demolition unit.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Dark accurate plunger down the successive knell
Of arch on arch, where ogives burst a red
Reverberance of hail upon the dead
Thunder like an exploding crucible!
Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything.
-Lula
Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.
More than guided missiles,
all the world needs
guided men.
the glass. The sergeant put
Every bullet has its billet.
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this ... skirmish.
As the missile flew high above the moat-lake, there was a small, almost inaudible explosion, like that of a fire cracker meant for a child.
Lakshman's awe was quickly replaced by disappointment. He frowned. 'That's it? Is that the famed Asuraastra?
You know what really keeps your staff on their toes? A harpoon gun.
Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.
I move we get more wine,' Alistair said. 'What does the panel think?' ...
It was obvious that the entire war could be solved in this way. The trick would be to reach for a corkscrew instead, every time some brass hat ordered artillery.
We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all; we neither know nor can determine where it will fall.
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 6
Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
Fill your armoury with arrows of courage!
The Gatlings at Santiago.
My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it.
He that is equipped will equip others
The first shells to touch NATO-defended soil were those of a battery of 152mm D-20s fired from eleven kilometers behind the East German frontier, the battery commander anticipating his orders by several seconds.
Valor is the soldier's adornment.
The moral effect of the thundering of one's own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.
Ciro, who loved machinery and its design, thought the tanks were ugly. What beauty could be found in something that was created with the sole purpose of destruction?
Wait a while; there will come to you mounts, carrying lions in shining armor, battalions followed by battalions.
That's a great golden nugget that's going in my tactical toolbox
For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon.
If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.
The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle. It is always his weapon of personal safety in an emergency, and for many it is the primary weapon of offence and defense. Expertness in its use cannot be over emphasized.
Don't use cannon to kill musquito.
The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.
A fooles bolt is soone shot.
Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.
Munitions Commander? Why me?
I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.
-Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn
Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
The soldier is the army.
A soldier is a killer painted hero.