Sentence examples for vulnerable fighter from inspiring English sources

When Margarito's trainer, Robert Garcia, watched film of Pacquiao, he saw a somewhat vulnerable fighter who lunged too often and left himself exposed.

Combat experience showed that the heavily armed British and U.S. bombers were more vulnerable to fighter attack than expected.

The Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber was used to great effect during the invasions of Poland, France, and the Low Countries in 1939 40, but its slow speed rendered it vulnerable to fighter attack.

Early versions proved to be more vulnerable to fighter attack than anticipated, but, by the time the B-17E version began to go into service shortly before the United States entered the war in 1941, the plane was equipped with turrets in the upper fuselage, belly, and tail.

Once the Stuka became too vulnerable to fighter opposition on all fronts, work was done to develop a replacement.

Perhaps the introduction of the Cuban trainer Jorge Rubio was a desperate measure to patch up a vulnerable if brilliant fighter's porous defence.

They proved, however, to be very vulnerable to German fighter attack whenever they went beyond the range of their own escort of fighters that is to say, farther than the distance from Norfolk to Aachen: the raid against the important ball-bearing factory at Schweinfurt, for instance, on Oct. 14, 1943, lost 60 out of the 291 bombers participating, and 138 of those that returned were damaged.

Although sturdy, accurate, and very effective against ground targets, the Ju 87, like many other dive bombers of the war, was vulnerable to modern fighter aircraft.

A few categories of loyalists appear to be particularly vulnerable: pro-regime fighters believed by the rebels to be African mercenaries have been abused and possibly executed after capture.

There are some in the world of mixed martial arts who question that approach, who believe winning is more important than how you win, who say looking for a finish can leave fighters vulnerable to losing and to injuries.

Modifications were made to solve the problem, but the damage had been done; the safety issues, increased maintenance costs compared to conventional bombs, the fact that the bomb's guidance system required clear-day use only, rendering the bombers vulnerable to enemy fighters, and required that the weapon be released at a prime altitude for the aircraft to be in danger from enemy flak.