What is "calliopes"

Usage examples of "calliopes".

Specialists like United Defense Batteries provided multi-barreled weapons - calliopes - to sweep the sky clear over defended positions and to accompany attacking columns which would otherwise be wrecked by shellfire.

The warehouse staff - manager, loaders, and guards - had disappeared at the first sign of trouble, leaving nothing behind but crated goods and the heavy effluvium of tobacco to be stirred into a frenzy by the calliopes drive fans.

She couldn't see any of the troops, Tyi's or the pair of calliopes, and she wouldn't have understood a bloody thing if she had been able to watch them.

If it doesn't work out, try to withdraw toward the east or west stairs, maybe the calliopes can give us some cover.

There's about two hundred men with buzzbombs and six calliopes if they're not further reinforced.

The Volunteers probably intended the mainland element to halt the task force in line along the shore where the calliopes could rake the Slammers from the flank.

Here the Volunteers have their calliopes tasked for ground use, waiting for your column to come into their killing zone.

When we get to Bulstrode Bay, their calliopes are going to be aimed up for artillery defense and we'll take 'em with direct fire.

Those calliopes were molten ruin, but there was no need to waste shells on the aircars.

The calliopes stopped firing when the glass-fiber shrapnel scythed down the gunners who hadn't thrown themselves under cover.

There's an eight-gun battery of calliopes with each battalion and they'd cut you to pieces.

That'll give the Firelords enough warning to block the head of the valley with their calliopes and take you under fire with their rockets.

The Firelords' calliopes, emplaced on the escarpment and manned by professionals, made that notion suicide.

Hit the calliopes first, troopers, and any vehicles that aren't running—but my guess is that with the panzers shooting them up they're going to have forgotten about us till we give 'em reason to remember.

After a volley into their rocket-laden trucks had put the Firelords off-balance, Flasher concentrated on the calliopes in firing positions on the lip of the escarpment.