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battlecruiser

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n. (alternative spelling of battle-cruiser English)

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A battlecruiser , or battle cruiser , was a capital ship built in the first half of the 20th century. They were similar in size, cost, and carried similar armament to battleships , but they generally carried less armour in order to obtain faster speeds. ...

Usage examples of battlecruiser.

A Q-ship, moreover, that might as well have been a full-fledged battlecruiser for the weight of armament it carried.

The raider behind her, she noted, was accelerating in her wake, continuing to herd her toward the battlecruiser while at the same time being careful not to get close enough that she would be tempted to turn and engage.

If Abigail had been in command of that battlecruiser, no doubt she would have been doing exactly the same thing.

Sandler and Damana might be right about the limited combat capabilities of the battlecruiser, and Fearless could certainly take the light cruiser now coming in from behind her.

The Peep battlecruiser was on the move now, sweeping in with sudden new urgency toward the Dorado.

An Edward Saganami-class ship like Gauntlet was a powerful, modern unit, but scarcely a match for a Warlord-class battlecruiser in close action.

Minutes trickled past while the intruder continued to move away from them, and then, at last, six superdreadnoughts and six battlecruisers turned to pursue.

The guardian starships halted, then the superdreadnoughts came to a new heading, bound for the invaders' entry warp point at their maximum speed while the battlecruisers waited.

The com officers voice was flat, and Braun's jaw tightened as fresh light codes flashed beside the red-ringed dots of the unknown battlecruisers.

Unlikely as it might be that the newcomers' intentions were pacific, there was no way he could know they weren't until and unless those battlecruisers fired.

Braun stared into his display, watching the battlecruisers as Argive swung directly away from them.

That many battlecruisers should have torn Argive to bits - not that he intended to complain!

He tapped more commands into his display and watched the entire encounter replay in accelerated time, starting from the moment the battlecruisers uncloaked, and suddenly he stiffened.

The data flashed, and he flinched as he saw the battlecruisers appear from cloak.

The commodore looked down into his plot, and his eyes flicked to the six battlecruisers still clinging to his heels.