Even at this short distance they were only vague shapes, setting up the machine gun on a small knoll so that it could fire above the heads of the rest of the patrol.

The gun would fire or not, just as chance willed.

Then he was to co-ordinate his fire with a radar-controlled shore gun firing white tracers.

Vesole rushed from gun to gun, attempting to direct fire.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low intensity operations such as Iraq and Afghanistan.

An assault gun is a gun or howitzer mounted on a motor vehicle or armored chassis, designed for use in the direct fire role in support of infantry when attacking other infantry or fortified positions.

The use of a casemate instead of a gun turret limited these weapons field of fire, but allowed a larger gun to be fitted relative to the chassis, more armour to be fitted for the same weight, and provided a cheaper construction.

In the post-WWII era, vehicles fitting into an " assault gun " category were developed as a light-weight, air-deployable, direct fire weapon for use with airborne troops.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

However, the resurgence of expeditionary warfare in the past twenty years has seen the emergence of gun-armed wheeled vehicles, sometimes called protected gun systems, which may bear a superficial resemblance to tank destroyers, but are employed as direct fire support units typically providing support in low-intensity operations such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Based on the Panzer III tank chassis, the Sturmgeschütz III was originally fitted with a low-velocity gun, and was assigned to the artillery arm for infantry fire support.

Mechanical analog computers were very important in gun fire control in World War II, The Korean War and well past the Vietnam War ; they were made in significant numbers.

The actions involved in operating the piece are collectively called " serving the gun " or " detachment " by the gun crew, constituting either direct or indirect artillery fire.

For example a target acquisition element can send a message with target details which is automatically routed through the tactical and technical fire control elements to deliver firing data to the gun's laying system and the gun automatically laid.

** gun howitzers: capable of high or low angle fire with a long barrel.

Being single action weapons, they needed to be cocked for each shot, so the rate of fire was also low, and while a shooter could fan his gun, this expended all his shots even faster and made him even more inaccurate than normal.

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

They would draw and fire with their strong hand, and when they had emptied the first gun, they drew the second gun with their weak hand and passed it over to their strong hand.

Using modern full capacity firearms, a shooter can fire more shots with greater accuracy using a single gun in a two-handed grip than two guns with one-handed grips.

During the Gulf War, the HARM was involved in a friendly fire incident when the pilot of an F-4G Wild Weasel escorting a B-52 bomber mistook the latter's tail gun radar for an Iraqi AAA site.

By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

Curt was holding Jess's gun in his left hand.

The terrible power of a gun, the thing that blasted the soul out of a living body, man or beast, was one he never wanted to lose.

His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.

Another evidence of the spreading rule of reason was provided from Mexico City with the daily hijacking of an American plane by a demented Algerian with a gun.

The beaming ROK was carrying a thirty-caliber machine gun ; ;

That was when the gun went off.

and I know that I, myself, was nauseated with apprehension and fear and that my hands were soaking wet where they held my gun.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

Bobby Joe took a gun from behind the door, and with a quick `` Bye now '' was gone for the day.

It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.

He was going to be sensible and not try to do anything rash with that gun pointed at him.

There was something phony about all this gun waving -- something not quite what it seemed in the detailed directions for finding the police.

Shayne stepped back to let him slump to the ground, and then dived over him through the open door into Harris who was cursing loudly and trying to drag a gun from a shoulder holster, somewhat impeded by the steering wheel.

He walked up to the lieutenant's office, leaned wearily against the gun rack that housed four rifles and a gas gun nobody remembered having used and a submachine gun that was occasionally tried out on the Academy Range.

The important thing was that Burton had gone somewhere to meet a blackmailer with a gun in his pocket.

And that gun was empty.

Maybe he only intended to scare the blackmailer, whoever he was, in which case an unloaded gun would be good enough.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

So was the gun.

" He then walked calmly into the courthouse, was threatened with a gun, and turned back, " but without hastening a step ", according to Higginson.

The primary German assault gun was the Sturmgeschütz III ( StuG III ).