artillery
炮兵,炮兵部队,大炮,炮火
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Definitions
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- : mounted projectile-firing guns or missile launchers, mobile or stationary, light or heavy, as distinguished from small arms.
- : the troops or the branch of an army concerned with the use and service of such weapons.
- : the science that treats of the use of such weapons.
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Eastern Taiwan’s terrain is mountainous, and many of the 100-plus islands that make up Taiwan are riddled with tunnels, bunkers and artillery.
This could include superior numbers of soldiers, better-positioned and longer-ranged artillery, or simply picking a fight in the right place where an opponent is unprepared.
This can be applied to every kind of blast, from a grenade to an artillery round or a plane-dropped bomb.
Nedergaard’s interpretation is that more experienced runners are able to zone out during easy training runs, whereas novice runners have to deploy the heavy self-talk artillery pretty much all the time to get through their runs.
ISIS had tanks, artillery systems, and even 155‑ millimeter Howitzers they had taken from Iraqi forces, who had received the equipment from America.
Artillery fire could be heard in Avtozavodsky district, on Chernyshevskogo and Putin avenues in downtown Grozny.
The other subject he taught at VMI was something he knew a great deal about, too: artillery.
In fact, he taught the most intensive artillery course in the South and very likely the equal of courses at West Point.
The “tactical” side of artillery—its use on a battlefield—was something Jackson was not called upon to explain.
Jackson fared better as an instructor of artillery, a subject he was far better at explaining.