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Units of nautical speed
Answer for the clue "Units of nautical speed ", 5 letters:
knots
Alternative clues for the word knots
Usage examples of knots.
Gulfstream36 sailboat, moving along at four or five knots with the autosteering set.
We can still hear the Natya pinging, nearing one-eight-six, and her blade count is now about fifteen knots, too.
The head-up display projected on the windshield in front of him reported 625 knots Indicated Air Speed, a hundred six feet of altitude, a heading of 013, and around the numbers was a monocolor holographic image of the terrain before him.
They were directed to head for the incoming Russian bombers at six hundred knots, and could not yet detect the Badgers on their own missile-targeting radars.
A hundred miles behind them, the two F-15s kept on point defense over Reykjavik had just been topped off from an orbiting tanker and were charging northeast at a thousand knots while the remainder of the squadron was even now leaving the ground.
The last of the Backfires had just launched their missiles and were turning back northeast at full power as the Eagles raced at twelve hundred knots to catch up.
Lebeds were moving at over forty knots, bouncing roughly over the four- to five-foot waves.
Driving his ship into the harbor at eighteen knots was worse than reckless.
Had the convoy proceeded at twenty knots on a straight course, it would have been nearly impossible.
The carriers were racing east now at thirty knots to make up the distance lost during launch operations.
Running on autopilot, the Kelts climbed back to thirty thousand feet and cruised on south at six hundred knots indicated air speed.
Powered by a liquid-fuel rocket engine, it accelerated to nine hundred knots and began its descent, its radar-homing head tracking on a preprogrammed target area ten miles wide.
Estimate target speed roughly eight knots, distance forty-three thousand yards.
At fifteen knots, the Foxtrot was too slow to run away from the forty-knot torpedo.
With all the zigzagging the merchies were doing, their effective speed of advance was only about sixteen knots, and a November might try to catch up with that.