Sentence examples for defensive weaponry from inspiring English sources

In addition to their aircraft, the vessels carry short-range defensive weaponry for anti-aircraft warfare and missile defense.

Evidence exists of an ancient contest between offensive and defensive weaponry, with defensive weaponry at first leading the way.

Short term learning is used to gather information about the offensive and defensive weaponry available to the player.

Development of the offensive technology of war was not as constrained by technological and economic limitations as was defensive weaponry.

If enacted, critics said, the bill would upset Washington's deliberately ambiguous "one China" policy, which treats Taiwan as a part of China and recognizes Beijing as China's capital, but also allows the United States to provide Taiwan with defensive weaponry.

But here too the Tomahawk firing vessels may be out of range of Syria's defensive weaponry.

But French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday that his country was willing to advocate a lifting of the EU embargo on the provision of arms to the opposition so long as only specialised defensive arms, such as anti-aircraft weaponry, were supplied.

As former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara has (in regard to SDI) publicly observed, the further deployment of any form of weaponry, defensive or offensive, nuclear or non-nuclear, leads only to further weapons development by the nation finding itself at a disadvantage.

In response, a myriad of rather ingenious defensive and offensive weaponry is expressed by microbial invaders.

To the extent that the Google-Motorola deal is defensive, a buying of weaponry in the ever-escalating patent warfare, it can hardly be called productive.

So here's your weaponry and defensive materials for dealing with us.