Examples of 'capital ships' in a sentence

Meaning of "capital ships"

Capital ships are large, heavily armed, and heavily armored warships that serve as the most powerful and important vessels in a navy or fleet. They are usually meant to be the main fighting force in naval warfare and often include aircraft carriers, battleships, and cruisers. Capital ships are designed to project significant military power and provide strategic capabilities
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Confed capital ships are headed home now.
There are many large capital ships at anchor.
Capital ships can be owned and operated by players.
Numbers of existing capital ships were scrapped.
Our capital ships are in position.
That two of our capital ships.
Landing on capital ships is being worked on right now.
He feared the loss of capital ships.
While our capital ships is vunerable to the enemy attack.
Have your telepaths start jamming their capital ships.
The number of capital ships needed was determined to be ten.
The latest estimate is that three capital ships have been sunk.
Many capital ships were damaged in the desperate air and submarine attacks.
They were not capital ships.
Some capital ships were physically dismantled and armament used in coastal defences.

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Battleships were considered the capital ships of the fleet at the time.
Lütjens had orders to avoid action with enemy capital ships.
They are the first capital ships to be sunk at sea by aircraft alone.
These weapons however lack the power to significantly damage capital ships.
Another characteristic that defines capital ships is that their main opponent is each other.
Guided missiles and kamikaze craft can also damage capital ships.
There were few capital ships available and they were ill suited for narrow channel warfare.
Expansions with further models including capital ships have been announced.
Dreadnought takes player to a futuristic ear of galactic strife where they command massive capital ships.
Send fighters to intercept and move our capital ships to reinforce them.
Capital ships provide support fire to smaller ships and naval transports against enemy capital ships.
They will lower the gate to let the capital ships out in a hurry.
Two British capital ships have been put out of commission.
Allied air support did not arrive in time to protect the two capital ships.
Both these capital ships will be calling in the next few hours at Bahia.
Singapore had essentially been reduced to a land base after both capital ships were lost.
This setback dissuaded the French capital ships from penetrating too far into the Adriatic.
Battlestars rely almost exclusively on their main batteries to engage enemy capital ships.
Forty Kilrathi capital ships are closing.
This prompted a strengthening of the stern structures on all German capital ships.
He worked in Congress for capital ships to be built on the West Coast.
The anchorage at Hamburg Bay could accommodate up to five capital ships.
All subsequent German capital ships were built by German shipbuilders.
A handful of bombers can cause serious damage to enemy capital ships and infrastructure.
All German capital ships deployed to the Atlantic were therefore out of action.
They were to disrupt Allied shipping and draw capital ships from other areas.
Star Destroyers are capital ships in the fictional Star Wars universe.
The IJN General Staff placed more emphasis on ambush operations of Allied capital ships.
The British did not lose two capital ships in the Falklands.
The USS Archerfish demonstrated the deadliness of American submarines to Japanese capital ships also.
The team is also completing the capital ships of the Vanduul Fleet.
While our capital ships are vulnerable to the enemy 's attack.
List of Star Wars capital ships.
Three new UNN capital ships and two Martian Donnager class.
In this era, secondary weapons were also expected to engage capital ships.

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