radar picket
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of radar picket
First recorded in 1950–55
Example Sentences
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In 1960, the nuclear-powered radar picket submarine USS Triton departed New London, Conn., on the first submerged circumnavigation by a vessel.
From Washington Times • Feb. 16, 2021
The notice was publicly posted when four radar picket destroyers escorted the 70-plane carrier Shangri-La southward from Florida into the Caribbean.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the men on board the radar picket destroyer Rogers, patrolling Korean waters, he would frequently sound off against the kind of war they were in.
From Time Magazine Archive
But critics maintain that when the Soviets develop new defensive weapons, including look-down radar and radar picket planes, like the AWACS, the B-l will become obsolete.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Chidlaw took operational control of all Army ack-ack and missile battalions, Navy patrol squadrons and radar picket ships, Marine Corps and Air National Guard fighter outfits assigned to air defense.
From Time Magazine Archive
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