How to Use anti-tank in a Sentence
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The group has been using anti-tank missiles, which fly low to the ground.
—Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 27 June 2024
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As an 88 mm anti-tank shell ripped through the air, Emile Mika bent over to pick up his medic kit and a candy bar.
—Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2023
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That was javelin anti-tank weapons and stinger anti-air systems.
—ABC News, 26 Feb. 2023
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To slow them down, a pair of Ukrainian army mechanized brigades—the 60th and 66th—has deployed anti-tank missiles.
—David Axe, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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This is a fraction of the size of other anti-tank weapons like Javelin, but highly effective against a tank’s weak spots.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 5 May 2023
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An anti-drone round won't have much impact on a tank and an anti-tank round would be like trying to hunt ducks with a cannon.
—David Szondy, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2024
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The town is one of the most dangerous places in northern Israel, having faced the threat of Hezbollah’s anti-tank missiles for months.
—Jeremy Diamond and Mike Schwartz, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
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On the right side of the turret there’s a launcher for two Spike LR fire-and-forget top-attack anti-tank missiles ranging up to three miles.
—David Axe, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
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Until now, the U.S. had only provided Ukraine with anti-tank mines, per Reuters.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
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Each time, the assault columns ran afoul of Ukrainian mines, artillery, anti-tank missiles and drones.
—David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
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His mementos from the military include the launch tube from an AT4, a Swedish anti-tank weapon system.
—Jon Hamilton, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
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The audits also showed that thousands of grenades and anti-tank charges were also missing, as well as 550 rockets and two missiles.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
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Last year, an anti-tank mine exploded and killed three deminers and injured one in the northern province of Preah Vihear.
—Time, 15 Aug. 2023
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The slats might help mitigate strikes by drones and handheld anti-tank weapons, but heavier munitions should blast right through.
—David Axe, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
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During the exchange, Israeli soldiers fired anti-tank missiles at the building, Colonel Hecht said.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
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For example, the group’s military wing fired anti-tank missiles at an Israeli army base near the Lebanese border in 2019.
—Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
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Rural roads are natural choke points that can be mined and covered with machines and anti-tank missile teams.
—BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
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From there, Hezbollah units have a line of sight into Israel to fire weapons including anti-tank missiles.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024
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Light artillery, anti-tank guns, and mortars could also be transported in and even fired from the open compartment.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
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The Israeli military said its tanks fired back into Lebanon after an anti-tank missile was launched across the border.
—Abby Sewell and Kareem Chehayeb The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
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My vehicle drove over an anti-tank mine, but everything was OK, the vehicle took the hit, and everyone was alive.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 1 Aug. 2023
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In the audio clip, the conspirators discuss weapons – such as a drone, mines, RPG rockets and anti-tank rockets – which the colonels claimed to have hidden away near the Odesa highway.
—Peter Aitken, Fox News, 7 May 2024
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Poppy with his fellow-soldiers of his anti-tank platoon near their positions in the Kharkiv region.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
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But early Friday, an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon killed a man from Thailand working on a farm in northern Israel.
—Bassem Mroue, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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Ukrainians fight back with anti-tank weapons, grenade launchers and anti-aircraft missiles.
—Roberto J. González, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
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The mines, anti-tank barriers, artillery and attack helicopters have slowed the advance of Ukrainian troops.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
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In addition, the heads of its anti-tank, air formation and naval formation were eliminated, the IDF said.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2023
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Already, Ukraine’s troops have managed to disable even T-90M tanks with anti-tank grenades dropped by overflying commercial drones.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
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Halo has carried out extensive surveys of anti-tank mines in the region surrounding Mykolaiv — about 60 miles northwest of the city of Kherson and 30 miles from the Dnieper River.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 9 June 2023
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Similar warnings echo 150 miles southeast, among officers in a Ukrainian anti-tank unit in the Pokrovsk region, where Russian forces have been advancing for months.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Jan. 2025
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