"Landing craft" refers to a type of vehicle or boat that is designed to transport people, supplies, or military troops from a larger ship to the shore, allowing them to safely land on land or beaches.
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«landing»
«craft»
Sentences with «landing craft»
- To really understand the surface, scientists want to land a craft there. (sciencenewsforstudents.org)
- A former Bristol labourer who helped fit out landing craft for the US Navy, has spoken of his race against time to find out how he contracted the asbestos - related cancer which is set to claim his life. (irwinmitchell.com)
- The awesomeness of landing a craft on Mars, combined with the enthusiasm of scientists who behaved more like a recreational league softball team than laboratory workers, had yanked science out of the realm of archaic taxa and into, say, the XFL. (sciencemag.org)
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