Sentence examples for the first operational from inspiring English sources

The first operational use of armed UAVs involved Predators carrying antitank missiles and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

The first operational squadron 800 Naval Air Squadron was also formed in March 1980 initially to operate from HMS Invincible before it transferred to HMS Hermes.

The first operational convenience: you never know we may need it in the future.

The first operational suborbital craft could easily beat that record all on its own.

John Shepherd-Barron, who has died aged 84, was the inventor of the first operational cash machine.

The first operational unit flying Boeing B17 Flying Fortresses was the 97th Bomber Group, initially based at Polebrook, near Peterborough.

Lockheed says it plans to have a working prototype running in five years and the first operational reactors in ten.

Early Bird was the first operational commercial satellite providing regular telecommunications and broadcasting services between North America and Europe.

The planes were conducting their final test flights before being assigned to the first operational Osprey squadron, in New River, N.C.

What Apple did on 10 September was to release the first operational 64-bit hardware and software ever seen in a mobile device.

The first operational outing for the Navy's biofuel venture will be in 2012, at the vast Rim of the Pacific naval exercise.