Sentence examples for submarines against from inspiring English sources

China has about 66 submarines against America's 71, though the American boats are superior.

1. Would Khrushchev be ready to absorb the prestige loss of acquiescing in a reimposed quarantine or would he feel compelled to use his submarines against our naval vessels?

Settling in Paterson, N.J., he taught there until 1879, when, with financial support from the Irish Fenian Society (who hoped to use submarines against England), he built the Fenian Ram, a small sub that proved a limited success in a test run.

Deterrence depended on slightly dodgy logic, even when it operated between two nuclear blocs in the cold war, and how you manage deterrence with ballistic missile submarines against numbers of nuclear states not playing to the rules, let alone non-state brigands that may build their homemade nuclear bombs, is far from obvious.

Information Warrior 17 will involve Artificial Intelligence (AI) and test the protection of warships and submarines against cyber attacks.

On the night of 31 May 1 1 June, the submarines launched three Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarines against Allied shipping in Sydney Harbour.

In the meantime, North Korea, encouraged by our policy of appeasement around the globe, has again broken its promise to permit weapons inspections, has launched a spy submarine against the South and has put 15,000 of its starving people to work on what the Washington Post calls "a vast, secret underground nuclear facility".

It would make more sense to mothball the Trident submarines, which against all logic are still patrolling the seas, deterring no one but draining money that is sorely needed elsewhere.

Current and former Navy officials say the main focus during the cold war was charting areas in the Northern Pacific and in Arctic seas where missile and surveillance submarines guarded against a Soviet attack.

In the Pacific, in an ironic twist, the U.S. submarines fought against Japanese shipping in a mirror image of the Atlantic, with U.S. submarines hunting Japanese merchant ships.

The Allied naval commanders were disappointed by the failure of the 26 submarines directed against the Completion Force to inflict any damage on the ships.