Sentence examples for weapon platform from inspiring English sources
In the 1960s the nuclear-powered submarine, capable of remaining underwater for months at a time and of firing long-range nuclear missiles without surfacing, became an important strategic weapon platform.
The cost of errors in choice increases as the cost of a single weapon platform escalates, so that, with a new weapon system costing $10 40 billion, it is crucial not to find that it is not needed by the time it is in service, that the technology cannot be made to work, or that it has been made obsolete by new developments.
The Pentagon is still buying traditional weapon platforms, such as ships, submarines and tanks—even when there seems little reason to do so besides appeasing political lobbies and maintaining the military-industrial base.
As for our current obsession with fighting wars in small countries, the future is said to lie with hi-tech cyber-weapons, not lumbering armies and manned weapon platforms.
"A drone is a weapons platform.
Do we really need to borrow old words from dead Italians to describe our proud wish to stand alone eating pizza on a floating American weapons platform?
Ferris meets with Edward Teller, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and who advocates the development of a weapons platform capable of knocking Earth-bound asteroids and comets off course.
"if you want an excuse to kick a soccer ball into space, realign an orbital weapons platform and launch a death-ray to explode the heads of the zombies sneaking into your soccer field – then THIS IS IT... .. Android The BBC's flagship gardening magazine has a new iPad spin-off: a selection of 100 best plants with all the information you'll need to make them flourish in your own back-patch.
"We've got the fabric integrated into the vest, into the shirt, into the helmet, the backpack, and into the glove and weapons platform," said Ms Thompson.
The combat variation is not a weapons platform (as some might think), but rather an untethered design using just the legs.
State by state, each weapons platform is detailed down to components and corporate contracts.
