How to Use field artillery in a Sentence

field artillery

noun

• The use of existing launchers also means that the Army won’t have to form new field artillery units to use PrSM.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2022
• At field artillery school in Oklahoma, Strzok finished at the top of his class, Dews said.
  — Matt Zapotosky, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• Parrott rifles were a type of field artillery built in large numbers during the Civil War.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2022
• Bill served 13 months in combat as a field artillery officer.
  — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• Ukrainian forces in recent days forced Russian troops outside the range of field artillery around Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, in some places all the way to the Russian border.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 12 May 2022
• Faced with a growing number of missile threats, the Pentagon is looking to the U.S. Army’s field artillery to shoot down those incoming threats.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2018
• The use of machine guns and rapid-fire field artillery pieces forced soldiers on both sides, the Allies and the Central Powers, to bore intricate trench systems into the ground.
  — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
• Instead, the Army placed her in field artillery in which soldiers use cannons, missiles and rockets to attack the enemy.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2023
• The base is home to both basic Patriot missile defense training and field artillery training for U.S. troops.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 10 Jan. 2023
• His nine years in the National Guard included a deployment to Iraq in 2008 as a field artillery officer.
  — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 12 Sep. 2020
• Strzok served in the Army himself, spending four years in the early 1990s as an active-duty field artillery officer.
  — Matt Zapotosky, The Seattle Times, 14 Aug. 2018
• The new generation of field artillery on its way to Ukraine, as well as an equally new generation of smart shells, will go a long way toward victory for Kyiv.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2022
• For example, female soldiers in medical or personnel jobs have the lowest risk, while those in field artillery face the highest risk.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2021
• However, howitzers can fire several rounds in quick succession, and a typical six-to-eight-gun field artillery battery could fire up to two dozen rounds in 15 seconds.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2018
• Another field artillery unit and a Stryker battalion will start training next week, involving about 890 troops.
  — Tara Copp, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• Mandus Group, a defense contractor that specializes in field artillery maintenance, figured out that the key to reducing howitzer weight was to reduce recoil.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2017
• China is also producing tanks, field artillery, drones, frigates, destroyers, and even aircraft carriers.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• The Army offers about 150 jobs, ranging from X-ray technician to dental hygienist, but the positions Morley listed as current fiscal year needs are mostly infantry, special forces, air defense and field artillery jobs.
  — Jeannette Hinkle, azcentral, 26 Aug. 2019
• Ryder said another battalion of Ukrainian troops began training on the Bradley fighting vehicle two weeks ago, and a field artillery battalion started instruction on the Paladin.
  — Tara Copp, ajc, 17 Feb. 2023
• Ukraine’s transition to NATO-standard field artillery is moving forward with incredible speed.
  — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• One of the two new units will involve field artillery, composite air and missile defense, intelligence, cyberspace, electronic warfare, aviation and a brigade support element.
  — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2021
• Pachucki's 12-soldier advisory team was one of the first deployed to the African continent and included Army experts in field artillery, engineering, logistics, intelligence, and more.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2020
• Next week, the training will expand again, with a second field artillery battalion beginning training and another battalion beginning instruction on the Stryker combat vehicle.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
• The base is home to the U.S. military’s basic Patriot missile defense training program and another curriculum designed to teach American personnel field artillery maneuvers.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
• The base is home to the U.S. military's basic Patriot missile defense training program and another curriculum designed to teach American personnel field artillery maneuvers.
  — Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024