How to Use anti-tank in a Sentence

anti-tank

adjective
  • The group has been using anti-tank missiles, which fly low to the ground.
    — Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 27 June 2024
  • That was javelin anti-tank weapons and stinger anti-air systems.
    — ABC News, 26 Feb. 2023
  • These joints were also designed to be lockable for bridging wide anti-tank ditches or canals.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Jan. 2026
  • An anti-drone round won't have much impact on a tank and an anti-tank round would be like trying to hunt ducks with a cannon.
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2024
  • It is also armed with TOW anti-tank missiles.
    — ABC News, 26 June 2026
  • Rural roads are natural choke points that can be mined and covered with machines and anti-tank missile teams.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2023
  • Ukrainians fight back with anti-tank weapons, grenade launchers and anti-aircraft missiles.
    — Roberto J. González, The Conversation, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Now, trenches and anti-tank ditches line roads where convoys of armored vehicles pass.
    — Olha Konovalova, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The slats might help mitigate strikes by drones and handheld anti-tank weapons, but heavier munitions should blast right through.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • This is a fraction of the size of other anti-tank weapons like Javelin, but highly effective against a tank’s weak spots.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Each time, the assault columns ran afoul of Ukrainian mines, artillery, anti-tank missiles and drones.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Light artillery, anti-tank guns, and mortars could also be transported in and even fired from the open compartment.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2023
  • To this end, the Apache is now evolving from its former anti-tank role to a multi-role air-defense and counter-drone platform.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
  • As an 88 mm anti-tank shell ripped through the air, Emile Mika bent over to pick up his medic kit and a candy bar.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Tanks, anti-tank weapons and armored vehicles now play a subordinate role to the ever-present drones.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Nov. 2025
  • In neither deployment did the tanks operate against an enemy armed with modern tanks or anti-tank weapons.
    — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Poppy with his fellow-soldiers of his anti-tank platoon near their positions in the Kharkiv region.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The upgrades focus on countering drones and anti-tank missiles, threats that have gained prominence in recent conflicts.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Saab has developed a new anti-tank round that's designed to take on the modern high-tech armor of the 21st century.
    — David Szondy may 07, New Atlas, 7 May 2026
  • From there, Hezbollah units have a line of sight into Israel to fire weapons including anti-tank missiles.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Specifically, a long anti-tank ditch seemingly around 20 feet across and 20 feet deep.
    — David Axe, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Each pod contained a PTM-3 anti-tank mine and a small explosive charge to eject the mine on command.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • An Israeli soldier was killed by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile in southern Lebanon.
    — Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Money, 5 June 2026
  • Secondary weapons include a coaxial machine gun and Spike and Konkurs anti-tank missiles.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Nine Israeli soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon from Hezbollah anti-tank missile fire.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The last shipment, of anti-tank missiles, was in October 1986.
    — Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The Israeli military said its tanks fired back into Lebanon after an anti-tank missile was launched across the border.
    — Abby Sewell and Kareem Chehayeb The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The audits also showed that thousands of grenades and anti-tank charges were also missing, as well as 550 rockets and two missiles.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
  • Last year, an anti-tank mine exploded and killed three deminers and injured one in the northern province of Preah Vihear.
    — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Last year, Spain canceled a deal for anti-tank missile systems sold by an Israeli company’s subsidiary.
    — ABC News, 20 May 2026

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