gunnery

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gun·nery | \ ˈgən-rē

, ˈgə-nə- \

Definition of gunnery

: the use of guns especially : the science of the flight of projectiles and of the effective use of guns

Examples of gunnery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Eberle was flying gunnery exercises in a single-seater fighter plane with B-29 bombers from Randolph. — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Mar. 2021 Instead, France’s airborne troops were more interested in sound tactics and precision gunnery than the pure majesty of perilously setting off the weapon on the open road. — Cory Graff, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2020 Built in 1944, this P-47D-30-RA was used primarily as an aerial gunnery trainer in the United States. — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020 The United Army Air Corps used the area as a bombing and gunnery range from 1942 to 1946. — Ashley Stimpson, National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2020 Athens sent its own warships in, and Ankara has responded by staging live-fire gunnery exercises in the area this week. — Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2020 At Pile’s request, British gunnery instructors had been indoctrinated with the basics of the device. — Jamie Holmes, Wired, 4 Aug. 2020 The squadron, a crack gunnery force built around the armored cruisers Scharnhorst and Gniesnau, was led by Admiral Graf von Spee, probably the most innovative and daring commander in the Imperial German Navy. — Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2020 The area had earlier been used during World War II as an aerial gunnery range for Army pilots. — Fox News, 20 Sep. 2019

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