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n. (context military English) An Aegis class cruiser.
Usage examples of "aegis cruiser".
In addition, we have lost the Aegis cruiser USS Monterey, the destroyer USS John Young, the attack submarine USS Tucson, and the fast replenishment ship USS Bridge.
The senior officer present was the skipper of the Aegis cruiser, who wondered how the hell he was supposed to get those fat merchants into the Persian Gulf without air cover, if it came to that.
The Russians' intelligence network is almost as capable as ours, and they know they don't stand a chance with an Aegis cruiser in our battle group and with our own air support.
Navy had been hit hard, losing three Aegis destroyers, an Aegis cruiser, three frigates and one of the new SSTN transport subs.
They went alone and unafraid, and were capable of killing damned near anything that was looking to paint the profile of an Aegis cruiser on its conning tower.
Tarrant and his entourage had arrived by helicopter aboard the Jefferson a few hours earlier from the Shiloh, the Aegis cruiser Tarrant used as his headquarters, and the lot of them had crowded into the carrier's Flag Plot to consider the latest set of orders from Washington.
Heavy escort, carriers in support, even a new Aegis cruiser with the merchants.
Ultimately he had risen to command one of the premier surface combatants, an Aegis Cruiser.
To know that he would never again fly the screaming Tomcat at Mach 1 plus, buzzing around the superstructure of an Aegis cruiser to annoy the captain, chasing MiGs through skies so blue they looked translucent, or screaming over the tops of waves with the spray flashing to steam in his afterburner fire.
Vicksburg, the group's Aegis cruiser, trailing the carrier astern.
Hunter recognized the huge forward compartment of a Ticon-deroga-class AEGIS cruiser, peppered with ugly wounds of festering rust and scale.
How many hang gliders must an assailant deploy to overwhelm an Aegis cruiser?