gunnery in English
a pioneer of naval gunnery
Use "gunnery" in a sentence
1. Roger that, Gunnery Sergeant.
2. Gunnery Sergeant Beckett.
3. Presbyterate Adventuress is a potential Gunnery Officer crew member
4. Immediately following the second round of gunnery trials, Baden was scuttled.
5. Irrepressible Cannoneer is a potential Gunnery Officer crew member
6. Birth system of the character of Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams.
7. 18 That the building was a gunnery school is beyond doubt.
8. After gunnery practice, Trenton returned to Philadelphia on 9 November.
9. In November, Acheron was nominated for service as gunnery training destroyer.
10. On Christmas, Washington, North Carolina, and four destroyers left Efate for gunnery practice.
11. After the inspection was concluded, it was determined to expend Baden as a gunnery target.
12. Mk XIV Gunnery trainer powered by two Cheetah XV engines; never built.
13. Mk XIII Gunnery trainer powered by two Cheetah XI or XIX engines; never built.
14. I'm just another Marine looking to serve his corps and his country, Gunnery Sergeant.
15. After gunnery exercises, the fleet headed for the Panama Canal and transited it in mid-month.
16. After initial tactical maneuvers and gunnery training, she departed San Diego on 3 May for Topolobampo, Mexico.
17. On 5 May, she sailed for the gunnery range at Culebra Island near Puerto Rico.
18. Azimuth, in astronomy, gunnery, navigation, and other fields, two coordinates describing the position of an object above Earth
19. The improved design had a better gunnery fire control system and improved ammunition magazine arrangements.
20. The F-84 was a stable gun platform and the computing gunsight aided in accurate gunnery and bombing.
21. Lieutenant Robert C. Hagen, Johnston's gunnery officer, later reported, "We felt like little David without a slingshot."
22. Over the course of the war Type 285 gunnery radars were mounted on top of the high-angle directors.
23. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were regarded as well-trained vessels; both ships won awards for their excellence at gunnery.
24. In 1936, she became a gunnery training ship until June 1939, when she joined the 6th Cruiser Division.
25. Upon commissioning, Prinz Adalbert served as a gunnery training ship, a role she held for the majority of her career.
26. Throughout 1937, Haruna conducted extensive gunnery drills and patrols off the coast of China, primarily in the vicinity of Tsingtao.
27. In January 1926, Trenton joined the other units of the Scouting Fleet and returned to Guantanamo for gunnery drills and tactical exercises.
28. Tennessee carried out gunnery calibration firing at Dahlgren, Virginia and was drydocked at Boston before full-power trials off Rockland, Maine.
29. Onslaught remained in commission after VJ Day and in September 1945 was deployed for training duties at Portsmouth Gunnery School, HMS Excellent.
30. In 1900, Admiral Sir John "Jackie" Fisher, commanding the Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet, ordered gunnery practice with 6-inch guns at 6,000 yards (5,500 m).
31. In November 1931, under the terms of the London Naval Treaty, Iron Duke was disarmed and converted into a gunnery training vessel.
32. The RN Gunnery Pocket Book published in 1945 states that: "The maximum rate of fire should be 10–12 rounds per minute.".
33. The target's data were also graphically recorded on a plotting table to assist the gunnery officer in predicting the movement of the target.
34. On 31 March 1942, during a gunnery training flight, he ignored regulations and performed some aerobatics in his Bf 109 over the Zerbst airfield.
35. Accordingly, the ship's company was reduced later that year and she was assigned to Flinders Naval Depot as a gunnery and torpedo training ship.
36. Mk VI One aircraft was built in Canada for bombing and gunnery training; it was powered by two 450 hp (340 kW) Wasp Junior engines.
37. At this time her primary mission was training, and she proved to be very capable by consistently winning fleet awards in gunnery and communications.
38. The increase in engagement range was due in part to the longer range of torpedoes, and in part to improved gunnery and fire control.
39. In mid-October, during gunnery drills in the Norfolk area, a powder explosion in the forward turret killed or injured every member of the gun crew.
40. Trumpeter/Cornetist Master Gunnery Sergeant Christian Ferrari joined “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in September 1993 and was named section leader in 2019
41. In the past, other gunnery systems have used different approximations to 1/2000π; for example Sweden used the 1/6300 streck and the USSR used 1/6000.
42. By 1939 she reverted to her role as a gunnery training ship, but she was ordered to Brest and Quiberon with her sister Paris upon the outbreak of World War II.
43. Seven months were devoted to overhaul, drills, and gunnery exercises, and then on 5 April 1953 Bremerton again departed Long Beach for a tour with the 7th Fleet.
44. During a gunnery practice session in June 1942, he hit a target drogue with 24 of the allotted 50 rounds of machine-gun fire, a feat that was considered difficult to achieve.
45. It served as a primary jet trainer, as a tug for towing aerial targets for gunnery practice, as a missile simulator, as an electronic warfare trainer as well as a general utility aircraft.
46. Three days later, the heavy cruiser departed Norfolk and spent the remainder of September and most of October engaged in gunnery training and conducting exercises out of Guantanamo Bay and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
47. On 12 September 1920, Haruna was involved in gunnery drills off Hokkaidō when a breech explosion destroyed the starboard gun of the No. 1 turret, killing seven men and badly damaging the armored roof of the turret.
48. While the 28.3 cm guns were of a smaller caliber than main guns of other navies, they were still preferred by a number of gunnery officers in the Kriegsmarine due to their higher rate of fire.
49. 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society […] the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essay of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, Cannoneering, bombarding, mining.
50. 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society […] the invention of men has been sharpening and improving the mystery of murder, from the first rude essay of clubs and stones, to the present perfection of gunnery, Cannoneering, bombarding, mining.