Examples of using Lightly armed in English and their translations into Russian
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Oropher's company was lightly armed.
Cabot, a lightly armed brig, fired one ineffective broadside of six-pound cannon shot.
His was a research vessel, lightly armed.
We learned, the hard way, that lightly armed troops in white vehicles and blue helmets are not the solution for every conflict.
Like most other armed groups, ADF are believed to be only lightly armed.
For the most part they had no uniforms and were lightly armed, sometimes with traditional weapons.
The KSF shall be lightly armed and possess no heavy weapons, such as tanks, heavy artillery or offensive air capability.
By this time a NCO in the Women's Protection Units(YPJ), Felat commanded a small, lightly armed squad of eleven other women during the siege.
The lightly armed forces in the enclaves would be no match for(and were not intended to resist) a Serb attack supported by infantry and armour.
Each helicopter has its own characteristics: some are faster,more maneuverable, but lightly armed, others are armored and heavily armed. .
Lightly armed peace-keepers must have the protection of sufficient flexibility in the event of their being caught up in an uncontrolled escalation of hostilities.
The crisis situation that began to develop in May once again highlighted the vulnerability of UNPROFOR as a lightly armed, widely dispersed peace-keeping force.
When they reached the casino the lightly armed French commandos were unable to break into the fortified building and called upon a Sherman tank to assist and soon captured the position.
The latter suggestion was opposed even by relief agencies,as it would make the lightly armed United Nations personnel particularly vulnerable.
My delegation is concerned when lightly armed peace-keepers or unarmed aid workers on a humanitarian mission are threatened, taken hostage, harmed, or even killed.
The immediate tactical objective in those first days would have been to organize an assault to disperse the few hundred lightly armed Yeltsinites in and around the Russian White House.
Lightly armed peace-keepers and unarmed civilians were sent into areas of active warfare, where their courageous efforts helped to save untold human lives and to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population.
At 0900 hours on 8 May, near buoy 31 at coordinates 913211(1:100,000 map of Faw), two lightly armed Kuwaiti patrol boats fired on an Iraqi P-61 patrol boat that was inside Iraqi territorial waters.
Lightly armed, highly visible in their white vehicles, scattered across the country in numerous indefensible observation posts, they were able to confirm the obvious: there was no peace to keep.
The mission would not have any uniformed personnel, with the exception of a few advisers on military andcivilian police matters, and a few lightly armed international personnel required to provide close protection.
When lightly armed peace-keepers or unarmed aid workers on a humanitarian mission are threatened, taken hostage, harmed or even killed, the world must act to prevent such intolerable behaviour.
All these difficulties are inherent in UNPROFOR's nature as a highly dispersed and lightly armed peace-keeping force that is not mandated, equipped, trained or deployed to be a combatant.
While RAAF records show that the Boomerang was never recorded as having destroyed any enemy aircraft, the type proved to be more useful in its capacity as a light ground attack aircraft used by Army co-operation squadrons,often replacing the lightly armed Wirraway in this role.
A new professional and multiethnic Kosovo Security Force(KSF) shall be established, andshall develop a lightly armed component capable of specified security functions, in accordance with Annex VIII of this Settlement.
Being small States with small and lightly armed security forces, Grenada and other similar small States can become easy targets for small teams of lightly armed adventurers or disgruntled citizens or criminals.
While acknowledging that a narrow delineation of safe areas raises complex political and legal questions, such a definition by UNPROFOR would be the only practical and achievable one from the military point of view,given the nature of UNPROFOR as a lightly armed, impartial, international force.
It had become clear by then that 1,200 lightly armed military and civilian police personnel, could not by themselves ensure implementation of the mandate entrusted to UNMIH in the conditions which would be likely to exist immediately after the departure of the senior military leadership.
Several supporters of militant independence movements have confirmed to the Group that it is the Katangese Tigers have who launched four highly symbolic operations in 2011.On 4 February 2011, a lightly armed group took control over the Lubumbashi airport for several hours and raised a Katangese flag.
Peacekeepers must never again be told that they must use their peacekeeping tools- lightly armed soldiers in scattered positions- to impose the ill-defined wishes of the international community on one or another of the belligerents by military means.
Multiple, successful attacks on peacekeeping forces now reinforce the perception that the benefits of a successful attack on peacekeepers through the potential to gain arms andrelated equipment outweigh the risks posed by conducting such an attack on such a lightly armed peacekeeping force.