When MANPADS is operated by specialists, batteries may have several dozen teams deploying separately in small sections ; self-propelled air defence guns may deploy in pairs.

When combined with training in discipleship, church planting and other modern missionary doctrine, the result is an accelerating, self-propelled conversion of large portions of the culture.

When first deployed with the U. S. Army, the MLRS was used in a composite battalion consisting of two batteries of traditional artillery ( howitzers ) and one battery of MLRS SPLLs ( self-propelled loader / launchers ).

When used in their original role as towed anti-tank guns against German tanks and defensive emplacements, the towed battalions suffered disproportionate casualties compared to the self-propelled tank destroyer battalions.

When they lost it, the French artillery moved in, and that was the end for Garibaldi that time, on 30 April 1849.

When fighting troops of industrialized nations, Gatling guns could be engaged by artillery they could not reach and their crews could be targeted by snipers they could not see.

When the Winter War broke out, Nevanlinna was invited to join the Finnish Army's Ballistics Office to assist in improving artillery firing tables.

When the main attack came at the opposite end of the line on July 21, the brigade played a relatively minor role, although it endured artillery fire for nine hours.

When the Russians attacked the Chechen capital of Grozny during the first weeks of January 1995, about 25, 000 civilians died under week-long air raids and artillery fire in the sealed-off city.

When massed Confederate artillery devastated a Union assault by Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter's V Corps, Longstreet's wing of 25, 000 men in five divisions counterattacked in the largest, simultaneous mass assault of the war.

When the militant prelates of York and Durham together with the Earl of Northumberland took their forces into the marches to relieve the fortress, the Scots swiftly retreated — a chronicle written a year later said that the Scots ' had fled wretchedly and ignominiously '— but the effects and the manner of the defeat and the loss of their expensive artillery was a major reversal for James both in terms of foreign policy and internal authority.

When zero hour came, there was a brief and unsettling silence as artillery shifted their aim to a new line of targets and the time of the infantry to advance had come.

When the Boers bombarded Ladysmith with Creusot ninety-four pounder siege guns, Chamberlain asked for the dispatch of comparable artillery to the war, but was exasperated by the Secretary of State for War, Lord Lansdowne's argument that such weapons required platforms that needed a year of preparation, even though the Boers operated their " Long Tom " without elaborate mountings.

When he first attempted to cross he was confronted by a small group of men from the Harrison County Legion firing artillery from the shore and armed men aboard the river boat Lady Pike.

When Morgan returned fire with his own artillery the home guard quickly retreated back toward Corydon leaving Mauckport undefended.

When the British troops withdrew, the Americans began construction of artillery batteries to protect the earthworks, which were then christened Line Jackson.

When they were discovered, the Spaniards fired from El Fraile's artillery.

When the United States became involved in World War I, this was the first artillery unit to be sent to France, and it fired the first US artillery shell against Germany.

When they had requested French help, a young artillery officer by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte was to be sent to Constantinople in 1795 to help organize Ottoman artillery.

When moderate delegates then offered an alternative in April 1784 which scaled the projected army down to 900 men in 1 artillery and 3 infantry battalions, Congress rejected it as well, in part because New York feared that men retained from Massachusetts might take sides in a land dispute between the two states.

When Mawhood learned that Mercer was in his rear and moving to join Sullivan, Mawhood detached part of the 55th Regiment to join the 40th Regiment in the town and then moved the rest of the 55th, the 17th, fifty cavalry and two artillery pieces to attack Mercer.

When thousands of regiments are grouped up into large fighting forces, they are issued far larger assets such as theatre-or even planetary-scale artillery, thousands of super-heavy tanks regiments, and even hundred strong groups of Cohorts of Praetorian-class landships that dwarf the Leviathan command vehicles from thousands of Munitorium armory, fortress, and staging worlds.

When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, he befriended General George Washington, and quickly rose to become the chief artillery officer of the Continental Army.

When the Continental Congress first created a Continental Army under command of George Washington in 1775 he was named to Chief Engineer ( artillery ).

When he landed, Hartmann learned that the Soviet forces were within artillery range of the airfield, so JG 52 destroyed Karaya One, 24 other Bf 109s, and large quantities of ammunition.

When the artillery was in place, officers could direct the fire wherever it was needed to accelerate the breakthrough.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Western journalists adopted the term blitzkrieg to describe this form of armoured warfare.

When the word kusari is used in conjunction with an armoured item it usually means that the kusari makes up the majority of the armour defence.

When two large armoured armies meet, the result has generally been mobile warfare of the type which developed in World War II.

When Western tank designs changed from non-combustible propellant cartridges to semi-combustible, they tended to separate ammunition stowage from the crew compartment with armoured blast doors, and provided ' blow-out ' panels to redirect the force and fire of exploding ammunition away from the crew compartment.

When the armoured cruiser was supplanted by the battlecruiser, an intermediate ship type between this and the light cruiser was found to be needed — one larger and more powerful than the light cruisers of a potential enemy but not as large and expensive as the battlecruiser so as to be built in sufficient numbers to protect merchant ships and serve in a number of combat theaters.

When the Royal Navy began building larger cruisers (> 4, 000 tons ) again around 1910, they used a mix of armoured decks and / or armoured belts for protection, depending on class.

When World War II began, Giraud was a member of the Superior War Council, and disagreed with Charles de Gaulle about the tactics of using armoured troops.

When the armoured divisions were formed in 1939, the link between the Bersaglieri and mobile warfare continued.

When completed in 1874, a single tier of armoured casemates and an open battery housed 20 rifled muzzle loading guns of 9, 11 and 12. 5 inch calibre.

When in combat the windscreen can be additionally protected by twin armoured shutters.

When the active component of his regiment was redesignated to become an Anglophone armoured unit, he requested a transfer to the infantry and became the Deputy Commanding Officer of Régiment de la Chaudière in England.

When the grenade was used, it was recommended that the user be within a short distance of their target, ideally concealed within a trench ; if the target were an armoured vehicle, then the best areas to target were the sides and rear, where the engine compartment was located and armour was generally thinner.

When used in an anti-tank role, a number of the grenades could be strung together in a ' daisy chain ' at intervals of around two feet, and then placed across a road to damage an armoured vehicle.

When first formed, the regiment consisted of a reconnaissance squadron and an armoured personnel carrier squadron.

When the division pulled back to the Maginot Line in mid November, its strength had been reduced to around 4, 000 men ( of which about 1, 700 were infantry ) and 20 armoured vehicles.

When several new armoured divisions were formed for the launch of Operation Barbarossa, Strachwitz was transferred with the 2nd Panzer Regiment and given command of the 1st Battalion, now part of the German 16th Panzer Division.

When not in use, the propulsion unit water intakes are closed off with armoured covers to prevent damage during digging operations.

When the Battle of France began in May 1940, the majority of the tanks possessed by the British Expeditionary Force were Mark VI variants ; the seven Royal Armoured Corps divisional cavalry regiments, the principal armoured formations of the BEF, were each equipped with 28 Mk VIs .< Ref > Fletcher, p. 19 </ ref > The 1st Armoured Division, elements of which landed in France in April, was equipped with 257 tanks, of which a large number were Mk VIB and Mk VICs.

When the German tanks crossed the line, both of the armoured trains arrived and attacked them from behind.

When Soviet forces took the Futsing Fortified District, the gunboat, acting jointly with a detachment of armoured launches, destroyed five permanent emplacements, a munitions depot and six mortar batteries with precise artillery.