What is "recoilless"

Usage examples of "recoilless".

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

Mortarmen with twenty-two kilos each to carry, and the recoilless riflemen with twenty-four.

Behind us the mortar and recoilless rifle teams had set up their weapons and lay next to them waiting for orders.

Just as they did, the recoilless opened behind me and I heard the shell pass not more than a couple of meters to my left.

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.

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 .

The loads were covered by white sheeting that bid the lumpiness of mortars and heavy machine guns, recoilless rifles, boxes and crates.

Afghanistan, and the factories producing Stinger missiles and recoilless artillery pieces were quite safe from Soviet attack.

Behind them light four-wheel vehicles like skeletal jeeps hauled ammunition and heavy weapons, recoilless rifles and rocket-launchers.

They had machine-gun nests and recoilless rifles that were stitched inside.

Defoe flinched as rocket grenades and recoilless projectiles roared right at the recorder, a barrage so real that he almost dived out of his wicker seat, expecting to be showered with exploding shrapnel and shattered bric-a-brac.

She was small and brown-haired, in a rumpled uniform, taking painstaking aim with a recoilless pistol.

Cradling a recoilless assault cannon, the SuperCat had small use for ceremony, letting everyone call him Leo.

All three of them had recoilless machine pistols at their hips, which seemed a bit much millions of kilometers from the nearest threat.