Sentence examples for combatant ships from inspiring English sources
For close-in defense, combatant ships were fitted with high-performance, short-range missiles such as the British Seawolf and automatic gun systems such as the U.S. 20-millimetre Phalanx.
Following the attack on USS Cole (DDG-67) in October 2000, ONR funded the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD) to assess the hull structure of combatant ships and to initiate development of technologies that would strengthen the ship hull in order to avert rupture from underwater explosion events.
Such, in brief, are the methods by which the vessels and the personnel of the merchant marine may cooperate with combatant ships of the Navy in time of war.
Third, the Coast Guard permits women to perform in all feasible categories of service, including duty on combatant ships.
The C-2 can only land on carriers, requiring further distribution to smaller vessels via helicopters; the Osprey is already certified for operating upon amphibious ships, aircraft carriers, and logistics ships; certification on hospital and small combatant ships has not yet been achieved.
According to the Congressional Research Service, to build 12 of these new subs, "the Navy would need to eliminate... a notional total of 32 other ships, including, notionally, 8 Virginia-class attack submarines, 8 destroyers and 16 other combatant ships". These are ships we use every day around the world on real missions to deal with real threats.
The main function of a multi-layer protective structure of a combatant ship is to prevent the inner cabins from being destroyed by anti-ship weapons.
The main function of the protective bulkhead of a combatant ship is to protect the cabin from being destroyed by anti-ship missiles, which usually invade the interior and explode at close-range, resulting in the combined shock wave and fragment damage on the structures.
Another important commonality is the fact that a 10-100 microgridrid has power level and dimension similar to a combatant ship, which is indicative that the cable impedances between sources and loads are in the same order of magnitude in both power systems.
Hanoi lets the US Navy use its former base at Cam Ranh Bay already, but only for non-combatant ships.
Surface combatants like the Littoral Combat Ship need to be equipped differently.
