radius of action

British

noun

military the maximum distance that a ship, aircraft, or land vehicle can travel from its base and return without refuelling

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The aircraft boasts of being a great improvement from conventional transport helicopters regarding its maximum speed, radius of action and freight-carrying capacity.

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Possessing a great radius of action, she combined the roles of mine-layer and submerged torpedo-craft.

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This vessel was not only larger and speedier than its appointed antagonist, but it possessed a radius of action and a seaworthiness which enabled it to accompany the battle fleet.

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It carries ten-inch gelatine blasting shells, fired from a pneumatic gun twenty feet long, whose radius of action is two hundred yards under water and one thousand yards above.

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They had seen the ship through the waters within the radius of action of the German submarines.

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