airborne artillery

They would be up there, in support of the ground troops, acting like airborne artillery.

At this time the airborne artillery was disbanded and other support elements reduced.

The regiment was raised in 1943, by the expansion of an existing airborne artillery battery.

There were also airborne artillery, signals, medics, and engineer elements in the brigade.

Airborne guns are airborne artillery pieces, designed for use by paratroopers.

Its airborne artillery and engineer elements were reassigned to their parent units of the brigade.

Although a conventional bomber, this versatile aircraft also was utilized for airborne artillery and as a low altitude strafer.

His father is a retired Army Airborne Artillery Officer.

'A' Field Battery is an airborne artillery battery of the Australian Army.

The forward observer can also be airborne and in fact one of the original roles of aircraft in the military was airborne artillery spotting.

The positions were located by radar from Lai Khe, although one officer thought that airborne artillery observers seeing the flashes were more effective.

So while every combatant in the broadcast news arms race feels it must have airborne artillery in order to compete, the news itself does not often oblige.

"The perimeter defenses at Southport were overwhelmed when Spartacus used airborne artillery and bombs to assault our manned emplacements.

It can also be deployed with a small trailer and used as a logistical support vehicle, especially for the 120mm Mortars as with Airborne Artillery.

Meanwhile, hygienically edited highlights of the action get replayed nightly on the news through ghostly green videos shot through the night-sight viewfinders of airborne artillery.

There was also one battery of four OTO Melara Mod 56 105 mm pack howitzers from the 4th Airborne Artillery Regiment.

Pratt thought that he would be chosen to succeed Lee, but Maxwell D. Taylor, then 82nd Airborne Artillery Commander, was given command of the 101st Airborne.

With the airborne artillery regiment busy assisting the 2nd OBLI, the Devons had to call on the artillery from the 3rd Infantry Division to break up the attack.

They were used during the 1950s, including by airborne artillery, deployed to Kuwait in 1961 and manned by soldiers from air defence batteries during the Confrontation in Borneo in 1965.

Some 200 Wireless Ridge survivors had been rallied by Dalton to form under heavy gunfire a last-ditch defensive line in front of the now silenced guns of the 4th Airborne Artillery Group near the racecourse.

The brigade is composed by three airborne infantry regiments (183rd, 186th and 187th), an airborne artillery unit, a combat engineer regiment, and combat service support battalion, a logistic regiment and a cavalry reconnaissance rregiment.

The vision of the 1970s to have an Airborne Artillery Regiment was attained and now the Regiment could truly claim to be the only Airborne Artillery Regiment in Africa.

The Stuka was used both for precision tactical bombing and the strafing of enemy positions, acting as a sort of "airborne artillery" that was able to keep up with the fast-moving tanks and attack defended points long before traditional artillery could be brought into range.

The modern Rejimen Artileri DiRaja is equipped with a variety of equipment and fulfils a wide range of roles, including observation, Airborne Artillery, Armoured (Mechanised) Artillery, Long Range Missile Systems and Air defence.

The 33rd Artillery Regiment Acqui was used in 2013 to create a new Airborne Artillery Regiment for the Folgore Parachute Brigade, while the 8th Cavalry Regiment Lancieri di Montebello will join the Pinerolo Mechanized Brigade.