What is "gunship"

Usage examples of "gunship".

SAS team could cope with anything except discovery, because that might very well mean death from an Arg helicopter gunship combing the area where someone had located them.

The Calamarian cruiser fired a storm of retaliatory bolts, while the remaining Corellian gunships spread out, launching themselves into the fray .

Even these Godseye helmets and faceplates seemed to startle them, and the gunship parked on the lawn in front of the town hall was still attracting attention hours after it had landed.

Flat on my back, I looked at the sky through the power visor and cussed out the three klutzy looking little alien gunships, still hanging high above us like a trio of malformed vultures.

Two Red Zone commandos went aboard the gunship on the pretext of examining the flight recorder and logbook, but they hardly seemed to care about that.

So Pierre told about the Makonde people who straddle the frontier of Tanzania and Mozambiqueof the independent African republic, and the colony which the government in Lisbon insisted year after year was an integral part of metropolitan Portugal, using, as powerful arguments in their favour, Huey Cobra gunships, Fiat jet bombers, Agent Orange crop defoliants, and napalm raids.

By the time the mujahedin had decided to withdraw from the battlefield a flight of MiG 27 and two gunships based at Kabul were already airborne.

The gunships in action at the Lorshan Pass were still engaged in shuttling soldiers from the embarkation point at Oran Mas.

Akers watched from the headquarters as the gunship made another pass on the mission compound, chaingun spitting fury.

The fluid situation in the notch pass gelled, then splintered into crystal: grassers and akks and people and gunships became nodes of stress, vectors of intersecting energy joined by flaws and fault lines.

Mace got enough glimpses of these gunships to have an idea of their capabilities.

Galthra shot down the slope beneath the gunships and Mace turned to face them, riding backward, spraying the air with blaster-fire until the Thunderbolt overheated and coughed sparks and Mace cast it aside.

They are vastly more dangerous than the gunships and the detector satellites and all the DOKAWs and droid starfighters and armies of the Separatists put together.

Vastor came to him, rumbling something about leaving this place before the gunships arrived.

Mace motionless as though nailed to the ground, even as gunships swept overhead and rained blaster-fire on the compound around them.