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antitank

a. (context military English) Of weapons or tactics, designed for attacking tanks or other armored vehicles.

WordNet
antitank

adj. designed for defense against armored vehicles

Usage examples of "antitank".

A combat vehicle like an outsized, lightly armored jeep, a hummer could carry quite a sting, up to and including pop-up launchers for TOW or Hellfire antitank missiles meant to take out much tougher targets than Mobile One.

There were also fat tubes made of what looked like fiberglass that could only be antitank rocket launchers.

He set the daypack with the three spare rockets down and readied the Soviet-made antitank launcher.

And armored crews tended to panic when the antitank started taking its toll.

Am under attack by ambush of at least battalion strength, with antitank and supporting mortar fire.

M1D7 you see up there weighed 360,000 kilograms and had armor thick enough and strong enough to defeat any antitank weapon of its day.

Straight Arrow combined the features of several older man-portable antitank weapons with some ingenious modifications that completely changed mobile warfare.

Those older weapons were the Soviet RPD-series 40mm antitank free-flight missile and the American 66mm light antitank weapon.

FIST infantry battalion below the rank of platoon sergeant had a daily shot with an antitank weapon.

Not nearly enough to become proficient, but they were familiarized with the antitank weapons they might use and gained experience at identifying different types of targets.

Many of the shells had arrived from Earth along with the shipment of antitank weapons.

I have precisely 350 Straight Arrow antitank rockets in the hands of my men.

Straight Arrow antitank weapons were on their way to intercept and kill forty-five tanks.

That crash was followed almost immediately by the blast of an antitank rocket and an explosion when the Straight Arrow hit the tank.

Facing tanks with too few antitank weapons had been the most frightening thing most of the members of the company had ever done.