Sentence examples for gunship of from inspiring English sources
A few days after that, a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter gunship of was blown up by militants firing rocket-propelled grenades at the airport.
On January 7th and 8th, an AC-130 gunship of the Special Operations Command (flying out of the large American base in Djibouti) struck Islamist targets near the town of Afmadow in the bush of southern Somalia and again at Ras Kamboni, a peninsula on the border with Kenya (see map).
The helicopter was a Hind, a Soviet gunship of the type that fought the mujahideen in 1980s Afghanistan, a machine whose twin bubble canopies are, in a smaller world, as archetypal an example of 20th-century design as the Anglepoise lamp.
SOME chefs storm into the city like an invading navy, gunships of publicity thundering on the horizon.
Western rebels this week accused the government of attacking one of their bases with helicopter gunships, of the sort often piloted by mercenaries.
On 20 August tanks, anti-aircraft guns and helicopter gunships of the Soviet army under the command of Major General Yuri Shatalin were brought in and by the end of the day the Armenians were driven off.
Move the X-Fi gunships out of the area and prepare the Audigy for a ground assault.
"It is quite another to unleash helicopter gunships on thousands of ordinary civilians and to rape women and throw babies into a fire".
There was nothing about driving his Aston Martin to Downing Street, flicking a switch to turn it into a helicopter gunship, or of fountain pens with tiny but lethal bullets.
In February 2010, after he returned to Iraq, Private Manning sent more files to WikiLeaks, including a helicopter gunship video of a 2007 episode in Iraq in which American forces killed a group of men, including two Reuters journalists, and then fired again on a van that pulled up to help the victims.
Five years later Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the U.S. Navy was sent to Japan in command of a fleet of gunships to force the country to end its two centuries of isolation.
