The phrase "fighting capabilities" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It refers to a person or group's ability to engage in combat or to defend themselves against physical attacks. Example: The army's impressive fighting capabilities were on display during the war, as they were able to successfully defend their territory against the enemy's advanced weaponry.
Members feel empowered not only by the fighting capabilities of the group but by its ideology, which provides them with tools and zeal to argue back against even the most learned of Muslim clerics, whom Isis labels as distorters of Islam's authentic message.
Some are new, but others return from Melee in some cases updated or refined, either in appearance, fighting capabilities, or both.
The two react to neutralize their bacteria fighting capabilities.
The new brain sciences offer methods to enhance the fighting capabilities of one's own troops (war-fighters, in today's military jargon) and to degrade those of the enemy.
Many others among the Front's leaders are former officers in the army, the mainstay of the notorious Duvalier family dictatorship of 1957-86.Mr Philippe says he is less interested in his colleagues' past than their fighting capabilities.
At "dead drops" in suburban Virginia parks, Hanssen, a career counterespionage officer in the F.B.I., left double-wrapped black plastic bags stuffed with secret documents, including a C.I.A. assessment of Soviet nuclear war fighting capabilities.
That is no less damning a criticism, reflecting the toll on the alliance's fighting capability of inadequate or poorly conceived defence spending by too many of its members (see table).
The net of it, he said, was that the expenditure of more American lives, and more American money, as well as further strains on America's already depleted fighting capability, could end with the country back where it was at the outset, dependent on recalcitrant Iraqi politicians (not the word he used) for the exit from Iraq that Americans so clearly wanted.
Finally, the Taliban assessment that they can take over much of the country contradicts sharply NATO's insistence that the Taliban have been demoralized and their fighting capability seriously degraded by the surge, night raids and the kill or capture tactics of special operations forces.
Among these deficiencies were increased weight, reduced ammunition supply and rate of fire, and loss of fighting capability if one of the turrets was disabled.
These tests showed that ships protected as well as Agamemnon, such as the later dreadnoughts, would suffer damage to their upper works if struck by such shells, but would not have their steaming or fighting capability seriously impaired even by numerous smaller-caliber hits.
