What is "antiship"

Usage examples of "antiship".

They deployed Chinese Silkworm antiship missiles on the al-Faw peninsula and used them to shoot at oil tankers loading at Kuwaiti oil terminals, across the Persian Gulf.

Paris sold Baghdad a wide range of weapons, including armored vehicles, air defense radars, surface-to-air missiles, Mirage fighters, and Exocet antiship missiles.

With a thunder that shook the Cyclopean walls around the whole of Old Town, the wave rolled on, carrying the barge and half a dozen smaller vessels high over the top curve of the antiship chains, and sent them spinning downstream for freedom.

On the displays, the antiship fire they put up sometimes looked like an almost continuous sheet of flame.

A particular worry was the deadly C-802, a sleek, sharklike antiship cruise missile that could also deliver a chemical or biological payload.

The upper rim of the antiship nets stretched in a deep catenary across the river from the titanic windlasses, down-geared and ratcheted, atop Onetower and the northwest garrison on the downstream side, and from Sixtower to the northeast garrison at the easternmost tip of Old Town, almost out of sight around the curve of the island.

Then they did look up: in time to see ten durasteel clouds burst in a rain of armored clone soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic, whose arrival was so swift, efficient, and disciplinedand in such overwhelming forcethat the antiship emplacements were taken without the loss of a single trooper.

The eighteen Dopp fighter-bombers from the Gows, each equipped with four Lim antiship missilestwo classes under a Tamcould turn on a dime.

The SH-60Bs were also equipped to carry the Penguin antiship missile, which would offer McKee an antisurface defense as well.

Instead, they hurled themselves straight at the battlecruisers, and cursing Orion and Terran squadron commanders diverted from their antishipping strike to claw around in pursuit.

Fully armed, they can carry twenty-four Harpoon antiship missiles, which can strike from as far as one hundred and fifty kilometers-" "Yes, the heavy bombers are a threat, Captain, " Admiral Yin said, "but once we secure Davao Airport, we can launch twenty fighters for every one of their bombers.

This means our fighters must fly four hundred kilometers one-way to reach Davao Gulf, and almost six hundred kilometers to intercept bombers carrying antiship missiles capable of hitting our warships in Davao Gulf.

While the AGM-84 (Block 1D) missile had been developed by the Navy, B-52s had actually carried the tried-and-true antiship missile for more than a decade.

The B-52s, the assault aircraft of choice because of their fuel capacity, were armed with twenty-four Harpoon medium-range antiship missiles apiece, making them formidable threats against the carrier fleet.

He carried twenty-four conventionally armed antiship cruise missiles, a formidable armament of high-tech weapons like the ones the Americans had used with such devastating effect in the Persian Gulf a few years before.