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n. (Aegis cruiser English)
Usage examples of "aegis cruisers".
Though it looked like the screen from an old drive-in theater, it was in fact a massive version of the solid-state radar array used by the Japanese E-767s, or for that matter the Aegis cruisers and destroyers in both contending navies.
Two Aegis cruisers were with the carriers, and a third with the amphibious force.
The formation activated jammers and SAM systems, with a pair of Aegis cruisers on the threat axis.
The resulting powerful American forces included four carriers, two Aegis cruisers, four Aegis destroyers, and four other destroyers in each task force.
From where he came to a stop beside the navigation station on the bridge, Captain Leon Ruszkowski could easily see two of the Aegis cruisers plowing along at a distance of four miles off their forward and port beams.
But the incoming bogeys had held their course long enough, and the Aegis cruisers Antietam and Champlain exploded with light an instant before Kidd as their vertical launch systems spat fire.
It still seemed unnatural, even after his two tours on Aegis cruisers, to be so far from air and light and targets and to watch the battle take place on a large TV screen instead of along the horizon.
He knew that Nimitz could have sent one of the more powerful Aegis cruisers or destroyers, but that would have left the carrier more vulnerable to attack.