Sentence examples for designed for combat from inspiring English sources

Consumer phones are not designed for combat.

But so are outdated submarines and jet fighters designed for combat against the defunct Soviet threat.

When innocents are slaughtered with weapons designed for combat, gun control is a critical topic — for a week.

Armour, originally designed for combat, gradually became ceremonial, though this did not altogether exclude the joys of fighting with katana (sabres) and rebellion: witness the legendary Miyamoto Musashi.

But they were prohibitively expensive (a single military flight simulator can cost up to $30 million), and they were products of the cold-war era, designed for combat in which large armies face one another head-on.

The 1033 and Homeland Security programs have resulted in local governments around the country acquiring an astonishing range of military equipment, including armored personnel carriers, M-16 assault rifles, grenade launchers, and infrared gun sights, all of which were designed for combat.

The new guidance system is designed for volatile combat situations.

Javelins, or throwing spears, were shorter and lighter than spears designed for shock combat and had smaller heads.

The F-22 was designed for aerial combat while the F-35 would focus more on ground targets and is meant to be cheaper.

The sight of a young man, probably 15- or 16-years-old, armed with a weapon designed for military combat, is not uncommon in Brazil's poor and disenfranchised urban communities.

But he added: "I don't think we should anticipate that we can somehow take a system that was designed for political combat, if you will, between the parties, between ideas, between principles and set that aside.