Sentence examples for combatant fleet from inspiring English sources
What is Aegis? A. Aegis is the name of the weapon system that goes aboard two classes of ships, the guided missile cruisers and destroyers, which form the bulk of our surface combatant fleet.
But there is little doubt it will become an organizing concept for the surface navy during the Trump years, and most of the warships in the fleet are surface combatants.
The strategy was conceived to get greater value out of each surface combatant -- cruisers, destroyers, frigates -- in the fleet.
The current fleet is smaller than what combatant commanders report they need, and their figure would be a more responsible one to use.
Japan maintains an enormous training fleet of schoolhouse-oriented surface combatants that are supported, in turn, by specialized training ships.
No combatant nation went into the war with a fully developed fleet of heavy bombers.
However ominously martial Russia's actions toward Ukraine have become, the next combatants in the crisis will not be the US navy's fleet of dolphins.
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus cited a "growing China" as one of the reasons that the Navy needed to expand its fleet to 355 ships, including 12 carriers, 104 large surface combatants, 38 amphibious ships and 66 submarines.
By 1983/84 the USSR had deployed in the Indian Ocean a detachment of its Pacific fleet providing an average of two to three submarines, eight surface combatants, two amphibious and 12 support ships.
Lastly, and most importantly, he told the satrap to be in no hurry to bring the Persian fleet into the conflict, as the longer the war dragged out the more exhausted the combatants would become.
