Sentence examples for gunships of from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

Since the announcement of talks, government forces have already launched attacks with helicopter gunships on the town of Haskanita in North Darfur, apparently targeting the leader of the other main rebel organisation, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Khalil Ibrahim.

A few days after that, a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter gunship of was blown up by militants firing rocket-propelled grenades at the airport.

After the Vietnam War the lead in gunship design passed to the Soviet Union, which, in the Afghan War of the 1980s, fielded the Mil Mi-24 Hind, the fastest and possibly most capable helicopter gunship of its time.

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.