How to Use anti-ship in a Sentence

anti-ship

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  • The Houthis have fired drone swarms, cruise missiles, and anti-ship missiles.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The vessel was hit by a Houthi anti-ship missile and fire quickly spread on board.
    Scott McLean, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
  • In the maneuvers, a missile boat fired anti-ship cruise missiles at a mock target.
    Felipe Dana, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
  • At least six other mariners were injured, and the crew has abandoned ship, one of the U.S. officials said, adding that the attack marks the fifth anti-ship missile launched by the Houthis in the past two days.
    Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
  • There is ample precedent for fitting a long range anti-ship missile to such an aircraft.
    Eric Tegler, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Most of them do not have anti-ship missiles; photos show they have been replaced with water cannons.
    New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • The backlog includes weapons such as Harpoon anti-ship missiles and F-16 fighter jets.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Many carry between two and eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023
  • An anti-ship ballistic missile was launched around 11:30 a.m.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Since the operation started, the Houthis have stepped up their use of anti-ship ballistic missiles, Cooper said.
    Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The bomber was one of thousands of planes turned into the modern equivalent of anti-ship cruise missiles, but with mortal consequences for the pilots flying them.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
  • Russia fired several anti-ship missiles in the Sea of Japan, according to its defense ministry.
    Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Brown spoke with Raddatz as the Houthis stepped up their attacks Friday off the shores of Yemen, launching anti-ship ballistic missiles in two separate attacks.
    Martha Raddatz, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Taiwan faces a $19 billion arms backlog, awaiting crucial weapons — such as Harpoon anti-ship missiles and F-16 fighter jets — that in many cases aren’t due to arrive for years.
    Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The anti-ship missiles have been used to carry out attacks on the maritime global shipping route and on Israeli civilian and military vessels, Hagari said.
    NBC News, 28 Sep. 2024
  • This includes the provision of drones, anti-ship missiles, ballistic missiles and medium-range missiles, sources said.
    Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 20 Jan. 2024
  • On a routine basis, they are presumed to be carrying land-attack cruise missiles, anti-ship missiles, anti-submarine missiles, with a crew of up to 85 sailors.
    Michael Wilner, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
  • This new Marine littoral regiment will be equipped with anti-ship missiles that could, experts say, be fired at Chinese ships in a Taiwan contingency.
    Ellen Nakashima and Christian Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But recently, Beijing laid claim to 90 percent of the 1.3 million square-mile sea, and has used dredgers to expand dozens of islets and shoals, fortifying them with anti-ship and anti-air missiles, and military-grade airfields.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
  • The idea is that, once emplaced, a Littoral Regiment can scatter smaller subunits armed with sensors, anti-ship missiles, and air-defense missiles throughout an area.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
  • The Houthis vowed a response after Thursday’s strikes, though the only direct military action was launching an anti-ship missile into the Gulf of Aden, which fell into the sea without hitting anything.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The service had instead invested in coastal anti-ship missile batteries, Bayraktar drones, and small patrol/gunboats.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The Houthis had fired at least one anti-ship ballistic missile toward a commercial vessel earlier Friday.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • It is equipped with a naval gun, air defense and anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, and is capable of supporting flight operations with a helicopter landing deck.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • So far the response has been muted, with just a single anti-ship missile lobbed harmlessly into the Red Sea, far from any passing vessel, a Pentagon official told reporters earlier on Friday.
    Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Russia’s other hypersonics – the Zircon anti-ship-missile, and the Avangard boost-glide vehicles – are true hypersonics, but some years behind in terms of development.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Much of the equipment of a carrier strike group is built around the particular vulnerability of aircraft carriers to anti-ship missiles and submarines—threats that are unlikely to be a factor for deployments in the eastern Mediterranean.
    Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Plentiful anti-ship cruise missiles will be vitally important assets in any attempt to stop a Chinese amphibious invasion of Taiwan.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
  • That would allow America’s carriers to attack enemy shoreline defenses while remaining out of reach of current hypersonic anti-ship missiles, which have ranges that exceed 1,000 miles.
    Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the highest-cost military donations include tanks, anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, weapon-locating radar systems, mine-clearing ships and patrol boats, helicopters, and multiple launch rocket systems, according to the Kiel Institute.
    Henrik Pettersson, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024

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