Word: recoilless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Approved a plan, suggested by North on Oct. 30, 1985, to air-drop to contra units intelligence information about two boats carrying arms to Sandinista troops. The drop would also include high-powered 106-mm recoilless rifles "to be used to sink one or both of the arms carriers." The memo, from North to McFarlane, was marked "President approves." Brendan Sullivan, North's attorney, told the jury that John Poindexter, then McFarlane's deputy, wrote those words...
Residents deserted downtown Ascuncion streets Thursday when firefights involving cannon, recoilless rifles and heavy machine guns broke out in the most serious incident against Stroessner since he took power...
...carbines in the cause of liberating their homeland. Some of their weapons are stolen from the enemy, some are bought from arms merchants, and some are secretly supplied through the CIA. In the BM-13 rocket launcher, the guerrillas have a much more powerful long-distance weapon than the recoilless rifles and machine guns that constituted their "heavy artillery" a few years ago. On the ridges above the garrison, the rebels have a dozen or more Soviet- and Chinese-made heavy machine guns and several mortars...
Small groups of Toyota desert vehicles, with 106-mm recoilless rifles mounted at the rear, wheel and charge like cavalry in the vastness of the Sahara. Outriders hang from the sides, firing their AK-47s with deadly grace. Very young and therefore very brave, the men of these small fighting units, or escadrons, whip their Toyotas' flanks until the vehicles seem to snort and froth at the bit like fine-blood Arab stallions. The young soldiers move silently, without war cries except for the high-pitched scream of their engines...
...soldier can go 48 hours without water and a week without food. That's more than our boys can do." That night at a military outpost in Oum-Hadjer, a civil servant observes, "This war started out with cavalry and scimitars. Now it is all Soviet rocket launchers, recoilless rifles and antitank guns. It is cutting our country to pieces...