spotting rifle in a sentence
Examples
- These spotting rifles were mounted co-axially to the main gun, and fired tracer ammunition ballistically matched to the gun itself.
- The weapon was aimed via a spotting rifle, which fired . 50 BMG rounds whose trajectory matched that of the main weapon.
- Although the spotting rifle could conceivably be used in an antipersonnel role, historical U . S . military doctrine strongly discouraged this use.
- Direct fire is limited to 1, 800 meters using the optical sight with stadiametric rangefinder or 1, 200 meters using the spotting rifle.
- The 106 mm M40 recoilless rifle is aimed using a 12.7 mm barrel-mounted spotting rifle for which 100 rounds of ammunition are carried.
- The M27 was also considered too heavy by the U . S . Army and had a disappointing effective range due to the lack of a spotting rifle.
- Where a vehicle, such as the M50 Ontos, used multiple barrels, spotting rifles were usually provided for each barrel so that each could be accurately boresighted to its own barrel.
- It is a man-portable weapon system consisting of the MK153 launcher, the MK 3 encased HEDP rocket, the MK 6 encased HEAA rocket, and the MK217 spotting rifle cartridge.
- Four of the rifles also had . 50-caliber coaxial spotting rifles attached, each of which fired a round with the same trajectory as the 106 mm round, and that gave off a puff of smoke on impact.
- The launcher consists of a fiberglass launch tube, a 9 mm spotting rifle, an electro-mechanical firing mechanism, open battle sights and a mount for the MK42 Day Sight and AN / PVS-17B night sights.