How to Use anti-tank in a Sentence
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In neither deployment did the tanks operate against an enemy armed with modern tanks or anti-tank weapons.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
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The Marders meanwhile would sweep along the flanks of the tank formation, dropping off infantry squads to suppress Russian anti-tank missileers and deflect any attempts by the Russians to get around and behind the Challenger 2s.
—David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2023
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While conducting a raid in Gaza, one Israeli soldier was killed and three others injured by an anti-tank missile, the Israeli military said.
—Michael Levenson, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023
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An anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon into northern Israel killed an Israeli man, the emergency services said.
—Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 8 Dec. 2023
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Peppered by artillery, popped by mines, pulverized by anti-tank missiles, the BMPs explode like firecrackers and burn like kindling.
—David Axe, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
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There's another restaurant named after Bayraktar, a type of Turkish drone, and cafe Javelin, named after an American anti-tank weapon.
—Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 2 June 2023
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Two were killed, and another seven wounded, before Derekh fired an anti-tank missile, blowing up the vehicle.
—Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
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Russia has deployed older anti-tank and anti-personnel mines—of the kind the world has ample experience dealing with.
—Justin Ling, WIRED, 19 Feb. 2024
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Since the operation started on Oct. 27, Hamas has attacked the Israeli army with explosive-laden drones, anti-tank missiles and high-impact rockets—the sorts of weapons that have transformed the battlefield in Ukraine.
—WSJ, 5 Nov. 2023
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Ukrainian military officials said the Russian attacks had run afoul of minefields and been pummeled by artillery, kamikaze drones and anti-tank missiles.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2023
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