What is "raptors"

Usage examples of "raptors".

He instructed his FIST commanders to arm their Raptors with Jerichos and have all of them on the ready line.

I want those Raptors in the sky immediately and locked into the string-of-pearls.

Brigadier Sparen and Colonel Ramadan answered that their Raptors were ready to launch and their missile guidance systems were already locked in.

Sixteen Raptors, all the Marines had, lifted into the air and headed in flights of two to designated locations just outside the wetlands.

While the Raptors were on their first sortie, waiting infantymen scrambled aboard Hoppers and Dragons.

The Raptors, already reloaded after their third sorties, headed out to launch even more Jerichos.

Free from worry about rail guns, half of the Marine Raptors stopped firing Jerichos at the Skinks battling the Army of the Lord and took flight after the armor, which began massing as soon as it left the wetlands.

The small tanks were nimble enough to avoid most of the point-target missiles the Raptors fired.

The Hoppers, with less effective area weapons, replaced the Raptors in support of the Army of the Lord on the western fringes of the Skink stronghold.

From the hand-blasters carried by officers and senior noncommissioned officers all the way to the Raptors flown by fighter pilots, the Marines were more lethally armed than any force they were likely to come up against.

He knew that experience working on Raptors could help him land one of those jobs when he got out of the Corps in another two years.

The only information he had was that two Raptors from Flight 2 had vanished over a particular spot in this swamp.

Wu allocated three hours for them to go the two kilometers to where they would rendevous, a kilometer from where the two Raptors had vanished.

And now the FIST recon squad that went in to try to locate whatever might have shot the Raptors down had only found one mystery spot, about which his F2 could tell him nothing more than what the recon squad leader had said in his report from the spot.

Sturgeon ordered van Winkle to get the rest of his battalion in position to sweep through the swamp and the squadron to get all its Raptors into the sky in case the Marines in the mud needed support.