Sentence examples for defensive deck from inspiring English sources
Without them, your defensive deck is nothing.
Wellington Mara received a Polaroid camera from his parents, and at the prompting of an assistant coach named Vince Lombardi, Mara began taking pictures of the team's offensive formations and defensive alignments from the upper deck at Yankee Stadium, dropping them to the field in a sock weighted by a cleated football shoe.
Shipping companies are also making their vessels harder to attack thanks to a range of defensive measures, such as razor wire around decks, high-pressure hoses and maintaining speeds that make boarding hazardous.
The few aircraft on the Japanese flight decks at the time of the attack were either defensive fighters or, in the case of Sōryū, fighters being spotted to augment the task force defenses.
Dubbed the "Battle Station" concept, the offensive crew (pilot and copilot on the upper deck and the two bombing navigation system operators on the lower deck) faced forward, while the defensive crew (tail gunner and ECM operator) on the upper deck faced aft.
Dolphins were defensive weapons that were dropped from the ship's yard -- a spar on the mast -- onto the deck of an attacking ship, such as a pirate vessel. .
As another defensive measure, in 1936 the Royal Navy decided to provide its new carriers with armoured hangars, the armour including part of the flight deck.
