Sentence examples for combat vessel from inspiring English sources

The United States is demonstrating the way forward here with programs like the Littoral Combat Vessel.

But he endorsed the Navy's goal of buying 55 Littoral Combat Ships, a high-speed coastal combat vessel that has experienced huge cost overruns.

Manila wisely chose the latter, first substituting a civilian vessel for its combat vessel, and then containing the dispute through diplomatic channels.

If the Navy acts on the proposal to step up patrols in the South China Sea, the Fort Worth, a littoral combat vessel, and its sister ships are likely to play a key role.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor by carrier-based planes on December 7 , 1941 dramatically demonstrated the potential of the aircraft carrier, which thereafter was the dominant combat vessel of the war.

Trenton to India (it's now that nation's second-largest naval combat vessel).

(It also includes women soldiers serving on combat vessels, arguably a progressive concept when the book was published, in 1959).

After MIT, he worked for two large shipbuilding concerns on Navy combat vessels and, then, the American Machine and Foundry Company.

The show has several models of Navy ships, including a gift from the Navy: 11 miniature models of combat vessels from World War II designed to teach Navy personnel how to recognize ships.

Ross said aluminum was a national security interest because the metal in its high-purity form is used in military planes such as the F-35 and F-18, plus armor plating for military vehicles and combat vessels.

On the other hand, the gas turbine remains the principal propulsion engine among naval combat vessels because of the high power that can be produced from very low weights and volumes of machinery.