Sentence examples for weapon platforms from inspiring English sources

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.

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 need for greater flexibility in the capabilities of weapons platforms is now paramount.

I managed to shoot down two aircraft at San Carlos and those aircraft to me were just enemy weapons platforms.

And although Mr Karem was not involved in the decision to arm the Predator, he has no objection to the use of drones as weapons platforms.

South Asia experts said the United States' willingness to allow India to buy what one of them called "major weapons platforms," particularly fighter aircraft, was especially significant.

The Army is also looking into developing ways to armor truck cabs quickly, and has ordered 700 armored Humvees with special weapons platforms to protect convoys.

Modern diesel-electric submarines, AIP-capable or not, are thus affordable weapons platforms for many navies around the world that wish to defend their own coastal areas against all potential enemies, even nuclear powers.

The theory underlying the triad was that spreading the assets comprising the country's extensive nuclear arsenal across various weapons platforms would make the force more likely to survive an attack by the Soviet Union and to be able to respond to a first strike successfully.