Officers armed with machine-guns and wearing balaclavas broke down a heavy wooden front gate and abseiled from a helicopter to gain entry to the property, media reports say.
These men have only very light weapons - machine-guns and rocket propelled grenades - and they have no answer when government forces decide to use heavy weapons, as they appear to have done overnight.
On that morning, Staff Sergeant Romesha and his comrades awakened to an attack by an estimated 300 enemy fighters occupying the high ground on all four sides of the complex, employing concentrated fire from recoilless rifles, rocket propelled grenades, anti-aircraft machine guns, mortars and small-arms fire.
They returned fire with 50-caliber machine guns, they also returned fire with their M-16's -- Marines pointing out of the top firing, but not indiscriminantly, that is something the Marines point out -- only when they were fired upon and only when they could see the flashes, did they fire back.
Three thousand of them, in plainclothes and armed with carbines, revolvers, and a few sub-machine guns, took the place over and defended it successfully for six days before being relieved by the arrival of the French armored division of General Leclerc.
And while some of the latter may look like automatic military-style machine guns, the similarities are primarily cosmetic.
And while some of the latter may look like automatic military-style machine guns, they do not function in that manner.
Teams of Marines backed by Cobra attack helicopters, .50-caliber machine guns, grenade launchers and TOW missiles patrolled the area around the camp, carrying photographs of al Qaeda leaders with them.
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To defend itself, the helicopter has machine guns at side-windows and at the cabin doors.
What is the distinction between machine guns and semi-automatic weapons?
There are dozens of roadblocks reinforced by machine guns mounted on American-built Humvees.
There were just a handful of officers, armed only with machine guns, no sand-bagged positions, no heavy weapons, no armoured vehicles.
Legal long guns were used in 11% of killings that year, according to Statistics Canada, while illegal weapons like sawed-off shotguns and machine guns, which by definition cannot be registered, were used in another 12%.
Reuters news agency reports that columns of al-Shabab battle-wagons mounted with heavy machine guns have rushed to reinforce Afmadow, which is about 90km north of the port city of Kismayo, al-Shabab's main economic power base.
In each case, our caravan of three buses included a police motorcycle escort and, in two cases, a following pickup with 6-8 police guards armed with machine guns.
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spanish police vehicles topped with machine guns were standing guard outside the American, British and Israeli embassies in the Spanish capital as security was beefed up ahead of the likely war in Iraq, CNN observed Wednesday.
These are high-caliber munitions for the kind of machine gun that is typically mounted on armored personnel carriers and anti-aircraft guns.
Players fight zombies with an AC-130 military cargo plane equipped with enormous machine guns.
Using an instrument similar to the scanning bar-code guns at supermarket checkouts, this machine analyses black plastics with a laser.
"Recent Mexican army and police force conflicts with heavily armed narcotics cartels have escalated to levels equivalent to military small-unit combat and have included use of machine guns and fragmentation grenades, " said the warning issued last month.
Ecclestone -- never one to kowtow to convention -- may have missed the Shia protesters carrying toy machine guns and wearing motor racing overalls.
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The security line in which I waited for 15 minutes was urgently evacuated by a group of Polizei bearing machine guns, and I had to follow my line-colleauges through a beer garden and a duty-free shop to find another checkpoint with another 15-minute security line.
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Officers believed Mr Rodney, Wesley Lovell and Frank Graham had machine guns and were on their way to commit a drugs-related armed robbery, the inquiry heard.
It was modified to defend against small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and therefore most of the weaponry such as machine guns and smoke grenade dischargers is on the top of the vehicle (1).
The United States now believes that about 200 insurgents -- mostly local fighters, with some Taliban organizers and leaders -- had been planning the attack for days, hiding mortars, rockets and heavy machine guns in the mountains.
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