battle-cruiser

You like your military SF to involve all-out warfare with battle-cruiser spaceships and weapons platforms, and the deeper the space the better.

Land of the Dead by Thomas Harlan review 2009

Two of the glints grew brighter and larger and, sure enough, a battle-cruiser and a dropship came into view, surrounded by fighters, which took most of the damage.

Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

The battle-cruiser landed first, disgorging its contents of siege tanks and marines in full combat gear.

Shadow Hunters Christie Golden 2007

Naval action occurred off the Dogger Bank between the British and German battle-cruiser squadrons.

1915 2001

Worf, just suppose, for one wild minute, that some day you chance to meet a cloaked Ferengi battle-cruiser.

DEBTOR'S PLANET W.R. THOMPSON 2000

The MEKNES was en route from Southampton to Marseilles with 1,180 French naval officers and ratings, mostly reservists who had served aboard a French battle-cruiser until the fall of their country, then transferred to Britain.

The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

He wrongly identified the ship as the DEUTSCHLAND, but the mistake was one of academic importance only: he rightly identified it as a German pocket battleship or battle-cruiser, 26,000-ton leviathans with 13-inch armour-plate and nine-inch and twelve 5.9 guns capable of delivering a 8,000-pound broadside in reply to his own puny 400 - and his light 100-pound shells could never hope to penetrate that massive armour anyway.

The Lonely Sea MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1985

He fell victim to the same fallacies that underlay the creation of the battle-cruiser by the admirals of an earlier generation, sacrificing armour to speed only to discover that mere pace in battle was almost meaningless, unless matched by survivability.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

He fell victim to the same fallacies that underlay the creation of the battle-cruiser by the admirals of an earlier generation, sacrificing armour to speed only to discover that mere pace in battle was almost meaningless, unless matched by survivability.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

He fell victim to the same fallacies that underlay the creation of the battle-cruiser by the admirals of an earlier generation, sacrificing armour to speed only to discover that mere pace in battle was almost meaningless, unless matched by survivability.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984