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How to use the word artillery in a Sentence?

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Wars are the outcomes of battles and wars are the function of many, many variables, and in this case, you would have to make sure that your tanks are used in combined arms with mechanized infantry, artillery, all of that is synchronized with dismounted forces, etc. So there is no silver bullet in this case, but I do think the M1 tank when it’s delivered and it reaches its operational capability that it will be very effective on the battlefield.

Mark Milley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Finland’s artillery forces are the largest and best-equipped in Western Europe, with some 1,500 artillery weapons, including 700 Howitzer guns, 700 heavy mortar, and 100 rocket launcher systems, the Finnish artillery has more artillery firepower than the combined militaries of Poland, Germany, Norway, and Sweden can currently muster.

The Wilson Center report

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Under continuous fire from enemy artillery and aircraft, our soldiers at the front demonstrate superhuman resilience, courage and bravery, in particular, the units of the 93rd, 10th, 57th and 5th Brigades who are now defending our homeland in the east of the country.

Sergey Shestak/AFP/Getty

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People in Syria are used to barrel bombs, chemical weapons attacks, heavy artillery, shelling, Russian bombardment, ISIS, the list goes on about how vulnerable these displaced people are.

Mouaz Moustafa

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re training and equipping several brigades of mechanized infantry — that’s a pretty substantial capability, in addition to that, additional artillery, and so they’ll have the ability to breach Russian defenses and maneuver, and I think that will create a different dynamic.

Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It wasn’t just some random artillery doubletap – they were being tracked, they were very much targeted.

Alex Kay Potter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need artillery guns, ammunitions, modern tanks, the long-range missiles and modern fighter jets, we have to enhance the dynamic of our cooperation.

Olivier Matthys/AP Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to unlock the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine, it is important for us to expand our cooperation in artillery, we have to achieve the supply of aircraft to Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to close our sky, to defend our sky, that’s priority number one. After that, we need to get more armed vehicles, tanks, artillery systems, UAVs, etc. etc. We have people, but we need weaponry.

Oleksii Reznikov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Counter autonomy systems to destroy Russian and Iranian drones will be vital, we need more of these anti-drone systems for Ukraine to degrade the Russian targeting for artillery, as well as deny them use of suicide drones. This is important. The' detection to destruction' time flow is several minutes. We need to change this.

Mick Ryan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They've used their mass, their artillery assets, and( have been) pummeling Ukrainian forces while operating in a slow grind.

Max Bergmann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We can state that a powerful rocket artillery assault that we have been conducting for some time, during the entire military operation, on this small enemy outpost has achieved its goal. They truly understood that they have to do the right thing, gathered their things and got out as soon as they could.

Natalia Humenyuk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The war should not drag on. To break the advantage of Russian artillery, we need a lot more of these modern systems, modern artillery.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are now witnessing the accumulation of manpower, heavy armored vehicles and artillery in the direction of Sloviansk, the enemy is using its well-known tactics, trying to move closer to our line of defense in order to fire artillery at the cities. Enemy artillery is already reaching certain parts of Sloviansk. This is another confirmation that people should evacuate.

Pavlo Kyrylenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The numbers are not out of line with what you would expect for this kind of artillery battle, it's not surprising that the numbers the Ukrainians are reporting are that serious.

The US official

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What they are doing right now is basically parking their artillery 15 to 20 kilometers off our positions and then shell the s--- out of us, they have so much both artillery and weapons and ammo that they basically do this until everything is dead. And then they push forward, and then they repeat that again.

Mark Savchuk

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The city is in a very, very difficult state of siege, relentless shelling of residential blocks is ongoing, airplanes have been dropping bombs on residential areas. The Russian occupants are using heavy artillery, including Grad multiple rocket launchers.

Vadym Boychenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mariupol’s deputy mayor, Serhiy Orlov, told the BBC that the Russians are continuing to use bombs and artillery. It is crazy.

Serhiy Orlov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For such a crime, there needs to be a tribunal. An international one. This is a violation of all conventions. No one in the world will forgive you for the murder of peaceful Ukrainian people. This is Ukraine. This is Europe. This is the year 2022. Evil, armed with rockets, bombs and artillery, must be stopped immediately.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We could see the synchronization of the shelling with the negotiation process. I believe that in this unsophisticated way Russia is trying to put pressure, fair negotiations can be when one side does not hit the other side with rocket artillery at the moment of negotiations.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today, Russian troops shelled Kharkiv using rocket artillery, this is, without any doubt, a military crime. A peaceful city. Peaceful residential neighborhoods. Not a single military object in sight.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The skies would not be a factor for Russian precision guided cruise or ballistic missiles, or even some of their more accurate long-range artillery systems, cloud cover is especially not a factor for fixed locations like military facilities or command and control where coordinates are known.

Dara Massicot

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I remember the Russian military (from its) regular artillery and mortar attacks, including on civilian infrastructure and civilian homes.

Evgeny Leshan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the cemetery in the village of Granitne, near which we fought, there are graves of civilians who died due to Russian artillery shelling, actually, this is the essence of Russian expansion. Russians call themselves.

Evgeny Leshan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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