"capable" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The Royal Navy has remained one of the world's most capable navies, however, and currently operates a large fleet of modern ships.
- They have a formidable, capable navy.
- Since 1940s, the term "strike fighter" was occasionally used in the navies to refer to fighter aircraft capable of performing air-to-surface strikes, such as the Westland Wyvern and Blackburn Firebrand.
- HMS Ark Royal, the only ship in the navy currently capable of launching jets at sea, will be scrapped early along with its fleet of Harrier aircraft.
- These acts, championed by Kaiser Wilhelm II and his Secretary of State for the Navy, Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, committed Germany to building up a navy capable of competing with the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom.
- Using business school terms, the review talks about the need to develop America's "core competence" in several key areas: long-range missiles, space operations, a navy capable of operating on the high seas, and transport planes to move men and material in a crisis.
- The British Empire faced worldwide defense commitments, but lacked both the industrial infrastructure and financial resources to build up a navy capable of being simultaneously strong in both Far Eastern and European waters.
- There would be few national navies capable of mounting a successful operation along those lines.
- The John Ericsson-class ironclads were designed to meet the need of the Swedish and Norwegian navies for small, shallow-draft armored ships capable of defending their coastal waters.
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