gunship in English

noun
1
an airplane or a helicopter heavily armed with machine guns or with machine guns and cannon, providing air support for ground troops in combat.
Army helicopter gunships and MiG fighter planes lead the attacks but cannot distinguish between hardened officers and fresh abductees.

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1. Where's the gunship?

2. And a gunship.

3. The Razor Crest was a gunship used by the Mandalorian bounty hunter Din Djarin

4. Pakistan army gunship helicopters relentlessly pounded insurgent positions since the clashes broke out in the border region a week ago.

5. Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) watches as the gunship carrying Mace Windu and his team of Jedi departs to arrest Chancellor Palpatine.

6. Cossack is a stealthy British gunship destroyer armed with eight 120mm/45 naval rifles and a single bank of four, high-tier torpedoes

7. 21 Authority say the militants were killed by an Israeli gunship as they were attempting to set up an explosive device in an area where Israeli troops patrol.

8. Eleven Americans were killed in two separate friendly fire incidents, an additional 14 US airmen were killed when their AC-130 gunship was shot down by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile, and two US soldiers were captured during the battle.