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n. (plural of nautical mile English)
Usage examples of "nautical miles".
The maximum range for these torpedoes was 16,400 yards, or a little over eight nautical miles, so the Ming would have to move in close.
The TASM had an extra two hundred nautical miles of range over the Harpoon.
Soviet doctrine is to close to ten or twelve nautical miles before launching.
On the sea, distance and speed here as on Earth were measured in nautical miles and knots, or nautical miles per hour.
At low altitude, the Russians won't launch Excaliburs until forty, fifty, maybe sixty nautical miles from the target- At nine miles a minute, the Excaliburs will be on top of them before fighters could ever launch-and at two hundred feet in the mountains it'll be impossible to find them.
Radar contact aircraft bearing zero-fourzero true, range two-eight-seven nautical miles.
Capable of cruising 924 kilometers per hour at an altitude of just under 11,000 meters, with a range of 6,300 nautical miles, the aircraft was powered by a pair of turbofan jets built by BMW and Rolls-Royce.
Actually part of a mega-array, it was electronically linked to another installation fifty nautical miles away.
Of Odessa in the Black Sea, six Since departing the Russian port hundred nautical miles behind, he had been extremely restless.
The PRC aircraft never flew closer than ten nautical miles (fifteen kilometers) to a certain north-south line, and the ROC aircraft, recognizing that fact, kept the same distance from the same invisible bit of longitude.