Instantaneous fuses and gas or smoke shells made possible heavy and lethal barrages that did not make ground impassable to assaulting infantry. |
Indian artillery barrages that year interdicted Pakistani troop movements and thwarted the original invasion plans. |
My forward observers plotted their defensive concentrations and barrages where we thought they should be. |
Sources said the guerillas had suffered heavy casualties too as the military pounded rebel positions with artillery barrages. |
Their priority is an end to air strikes, tank attacks, artillery barrages, sniping, car bombs and roadside explosive devices. |
Consequently, naval barrages were fired on a flat trajectory that was unsuitable for reducing Turkish entrenchments. |