How to Use anti-ship in a Sentence

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• The Houthis have fired drone swarms, cruise missiles, and anti-ship missiles.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
• The vessel was hit by a Houthi anti-ship missile and fire quickly spread on board.
  — Scott McLean, CNN, 14 Mar. 2024
• In the maneuvers, a missile boat fired anti-ship cruise missiles at a mock target.
  — Felipe Dana, Anchorage Daily News, 21 July 2023
• At least six other mariners were injured, and the crew has abandoned ship, one of the U.S. officials said, adding that the attack marks the fifth anti-ship missile launched by the Houthis in the past two days.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
• There is ample precedent for fitting a long range anti-ship missile to such an aircraft.
  — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• Most of them do not have anti-ship missiles; photos show they have been replaced with water cannons.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2023
• The backlog includes weapons such as Harpoon anti-ship missiles and F-16 fighter jets.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 22 Feb. 2023
• Many carry between two and eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2023
• Since the operation started, the Houthis have stepped up their use of anti-ship ballistic missiles, Cooper said.
  — Rebecca Santana, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• The bomber was one of thousands of planes turned into the modern equivalent of anti-ship cruise missiles, but with mortal consequences for the pilots flying them.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• Russia fired several anti-ship missiles in the Sea of Japan, according to its defense ministry.
  — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Brown spoke with Raddatz as the Houthis stepped up their attacks Friday off the shores of Yemen, launching anti-ship ballistic missiles in two separate attacks.
  — Martha Raddatz, ABC News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Taiwan faces a $19 billion arms backlog, awaiting crucial weapons — such as Harpoon anti-ship missiles and F-16 fighter jets — that in many cases aren’t due to arrive for years.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• This includes the provision of drones, anti-ship missiles, ballistic missiles and medium-range missiles, sources said.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week Us, theweek, 20 Jan. 2024
• This new Marine littoral regiment will be equipped with anti-ship missiles that could, experts say, be fired at Chinese ships in a Taiwan contingency.
  — Ellen Nakashima and Christian Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• But recently, Beijing laid claim to 90 percent of the 1.3 million square-mile sea, and has used dredgers to expand dozens of islets and shoals, fortifying them with anti-ship and anti-air missiles, and military-grade airfields.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
• The idea is that, once emplaced, a Littoral Regiment can scatter smaller subunits armed with sensors, anti-ship missiles, and air-defense missiles throughout an area.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2023
• The Houthis vowed a response after Thursday’s strikes, though the only direct military action was launching an anti-ship missile into the Gulf of Aden, which fell into the sea without hitting anything.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
• The service had instead invested in coastal anti-ship missile batteries, Bayraktar drones, and small patrol/gunboats.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Houthis had fired at least one anti-ship ballistic missile toward a commercial vessel earlier Friday.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
• So far the response has been muted, with just a single anti-ship missile lobbed harmlessly into the Red Sea, far from any passing vessel, a Pentagon official told reporters earlier on Friday.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• Russia’s other hypersonics – the Zircon anti-ship-missile, and the Avangard boost-glide vehicles – are true hypersonics, but some years behind in terms of development.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Much of the equipment of a carrier strike group is built around the particular vulnerability of aircraft carriers to anti-ship missiles and submarines—threats that are unlikely to be a factor for deployments in the eastern Mediterranean.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 18 Oct. 2023
• Plentiful anti-ship cruise missiles will be vitally important assets in any attempt to stop a Chinese amphibious invasion of Taiwan.
  — The Editors, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
• That would allow America’s carriers to attack enemy shoreline defenses while remaining out of reach of current hypersonic anti-ship missiles, which have ranges that exceed 1,000 miles.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 8 Aug. 2023
• Some of the highest-cost military donations include tanks, anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, weapon-locating radar systems, mine-clearing ships and patrol boats, helicopters, and multiple launch rocket systems, according to the Kiel Institute.
  — Henrik Pettersson, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Aug 2024