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US
/ˌæntiˈtæŋk/
]
[ UK /ˌæntɪtˈæŋk/ ]
[ UK /ˌæntɪtˈæŋk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- designed for defense against armored vehicles
How To Use antitank In A Sentence
- The antitank SPG-9 “Kopyo” (“Spear”) grenade machine is not an automatic but recoilless gun. It consists of a trunk with a lock, a tripod stand and an electric mechanism which serves for firing.
- Next, we came across a wide canal or antitank ditch that was filled with water.
- Fighters used wire-guided antitank missiles to destroy heavily fortified concrete pillboxes at Israeli and South Lebanon Army positions. A Privilege to Die
- They include field guns, which fire with a flat trajectory, howitzers and mortars, which have arching trajectories, antitank guns, firing high-velocity shot, and self-propelled guns.
- Rifle grenades, land mines, dynamite, antitank guns, mortar shells.
- Mortar rounds, bullets, and antitank rockets all exploded harmlessly on the armored sides of the ship.
- The vehicle-mounted TOW (tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided missile), which is the main antitank surface weapon, leaves the "gunner hanging out to fry," as one old sergeant explained. 'We'll Win, But...'
- It fired a guided antitank missile in addition to conventional tank rounds and a special antipersonnel round containing thousands of tiny dartlike flechettes.
- Troops deploying for the North Africa Campaign were issued antitank rockets, known as bazookas, with no previous instruction as to their technical or tactical employment.
- The 120 mm antitank round, using a depleted uranium core, penetrated the earthen berms protecting enemy tanks and destroyed them.