(1) They broke in with a battering ram: an armoured vehicle known as a Bearcat.
(2) The group was one of the few in Syria to have received anti-tank rockets and had regularly used them against Syrian armour.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An armoured vehicle manned by pro-Russian rebels leaves Donetsk in the direction of the MH17 crash site.
(4) He explained that in Iraq , vehicles loaded with explosive devices only had their hazard warning lights on.” When Fitzsimons applied for a job in Iraq with the security firm Armour Group Security , owned by G4S, he didn’t tell his family.
(5) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
(6) - 16: Ukrainian troops turn back from Slavyansk after pro-Russians seize six armoured vehicles.
(7) In January last year, Rupert Hamer, defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror, became the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan when the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by a roadside bomb.
(8) This soft body armour was applied, either in direct contact with the thoracic wall of the animals, or with different plastic foam sheets, so-called trauma packs, between the armour and the skin.
(9) Speaking outside Battlesbury barracks in Warminster, Wiltshire, Stenning said: "Barely 48 hours ago, we heard the terrible news that six soldiers from The 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment were declared missing, believed killed, after their Warrior armoured vehicle was caught in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
(10) The Americans went first, a great convoy of armoured Jeeps snaking out from their fortified embassy under air cover.
(11) On the ground in east Ukraine , a rebel armoured column moved from the town of Novoazovsk, seized last week, in the direction of Mariupol, a major port city that the Ukrainians have said they will defend against any assault.
(12) Triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) were measured by radioimmunoassay in Pronase hydrolysates of four lots each of 1- and 2-grain tablets of desiccated thyroid (Thyroid, Armour) and thyroglobulin (Proloid, Warner-Chilcott).
(13) Two mammoth C17 military transport aircraft were on the tarmac, one of which landed in front of us, the other unloading jeeps and armoured vehicles.
(14) Shadowtroopers and AT-AT walkers should keep the geeks happy At-AT walkers Photograph: YouTube Black-armoured stormtroopers have featured in numerous (largely non-canonical) Star Wars novels, games and comic books over the years, but never in the movies themselves.
(15) In Bani Walid, south of Tripoli, tank transporters carrying dirty armoured fighting vehicles drew a small crowd, and an appreciative volley of machine gun fire.
(16) Police cracked down on the protests with a militarised presence including armoured vehicles and dozens of armed officers in riot gear .
(17) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
(18) US aircraft have targeted armoured vehicles and militant positions in a second day of strikes against Islamic State forces.
(19) "We have been promised a mobile strike force of 800 men with up-armour [shaped to deflect road mines] and advanced weaponry.
(20) I only saw one chink in Rowland’s impassive armour: his customary nod to the judge, as Mitting left, accompanied by a movement of the lips that looked very like “thank you”.
Corvette
Definition:
(n.) A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray has been described as the poor man’s Porsche.
(2) There were two small naval engagements in 1999 and 2002, and in March this year, a South Korean corvette, the Cheonan, was sunk with the loss of 46 lives.
(3) By now he was selling out sports arenas, packing them with not just black kids but white ones who’d seen the Little Red Corvette video on MTV.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Russian corvette Boikiy is pictured from the deck of Finnish research vessel Aranda in international waters in September.
(5) Other than a few tractor-trailers, nothing stood between the Corvette and the mountain ranges.
(6) The Corvette’s electric fans ran nonstop to keep it from overheating as traffic crept along.
(7) Prince a musical legacy like no other Read more But the music was flowing out of him in an unstoppable torrent, and the 1982 double album called 1999 gave him his first Top 10 entry as well as hit singles with the title track, Delirious, and, above all, Little Red Corvette.
(8) For comparison, the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, one of the fastest sports cars on the road, boasts a 650-horsepower supercharged gasoline V8 engine that produces 650 pound feet of torque and will carry the 3,500-pound car from zero to 60mph in 3 seconds.
(9) South Korea has lifted the stern of the 1,200-tonne Cheonan, a corvette, which went down near a disputed sea area with North Korea , and experts are examining the wreckage.
(10) More significantly perhaps, in light of the sinking of the South Korean corvette, the Cheonan, North Korea is listed as having 43 submarines which are armed with torpedoes.
(11) The Indonesian navy’s chief spokesman, Commodore Untung Suropati, has confirmed a number of warships had moved towards the Australian border including frigates, fast torpedo craft (KCT), fast missile craft (KCR), corvettes and maritime patrol aircraft, the Jakarta Post reported .
(12) On the road in the borrowed Corvette, it was clear that something needed to be done.
(13) When I got my hands on a burnt-orange 2015 Corvette Stingray last month, my first thought was of a road trip from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
(14) Part of Interstate 80 drops down from Wyoming, descending in grand, graceful curves through the mountains toward Salt Lake City and offering the chance to test the Corvette’s grip though high-speed turns.
(15) And in March 2010, a North Korean torpedo sank the South Korean corvette Cheonan as it was sailing off Baengnyeong's coast.
(16) Soon after, the medley of slower-paced tunes ended, and the DJ segued into the uptempo Little Red Corvette, while the room returned to dancing into the early hours of the morning.
(17) Le Miere said it appeared that the stricken vessel was the Cheonan, a Pohang class corvette commissioned in 1989.