guided-missile ship
guided-missile ship
[′gīd·əd ¦mis·əl ′ship] (naval architecture)
A warship equipped with guided-missile launchers, and sometimes with a gun battery, long-range sonar, and antisubmarine warfare weapons. Also known as missile ship.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Aaron Booker, 31, a gunner's mate 2nd class at Great Lakes, was arraigned in federal court Wednesday on charges he took the grenades from the USS Pinckney when stationed on the
guided-missile ship.
(36) The first were
guided-missile ships, mostly in the form of cruisers (CGs), those of Project 58 (the NATO Kynda class), Project 1144 (Kirov class), and Project 1164 (Slava class).
While the Spanish F-100s, at about 6,000 tons, would not be large enough to field the full anti-missile system proposed for US ships, the Spanish vessels could work with US
guided-missile ships like Arleigh Burke destroyers and Ticonderoga cruisers.
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