What is "mortars"

Usage examples of "mortars".

They were put to serving mortars and recoilless rifles, with an experienced NCO in charge to make sure there was a target worth the effort before they fired.

A grab bag of everything he had sat through in those interminable lectures: leadership, communications, how to parade a regiment, logistics, laser range-finding systems, how to hand-compute firing patterns for mortars, how to maintain recoilless rifles, tactical use of seeker missiles .

They had mortars and light artillery, and plenty of ammunition for both.

As she crossed over the creek she heard mortars firing, then louder explosions.

We also piled on other objects: light machine guns, recoilless cannon, mortars, and boxes of shells and grenades.

The trumpeter was sounding the charge over and over again, while mortars dropped more V.

We could cover them from the fort, and the mortars were set up to spray the road.

They tell you everything in the Academy: leadership, communications, the precise form of a regimental parade, laser range-finding systems, placement of patches on uniforms, how to compute firing patterns for mortars, wine rations for the troops, how to polish a pair of boots, servicing recoilless rifles, delivery of calling cards to all senior officers within twenty-four hours of reporting to a new post, assembly and maintenance of helicopters, survival on rocks with poisonous atmosphere or no atmosphere at all, shipboard routines, and a million other details.

We couldn't silence them completely, but we could make it unhealthy for the crews servicing their mortars, and after a while the fire slackened.

The best the enemy had was mortars, and our counterbattery radar and computer system was more than a match for that.

Some sheds here, I think they have heavy mortars under them but I can't be sure.

The Second's senior centurion told me many of his mortars were served by only one man before the battle ended.

About half of this one was taken up by supplies, mostly a battery of heavy 160mm mortars, three-meter tubes on wheeled carriages, and boxed Legion electronics, counterbattery radars and suchlike.

Not carrying infantry, but towing heavy mortars, fuel, counterbattery radar and communications gear from the Legion stocks.

Not many proper guns, most of it was big mortars, but still enough range once the scouts drew in.