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Definition of Attack submarine
1. Noun. A military submarine designed and armed to attack enemy shipping.
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attack Submarine
Literary usage of Attack submarine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Maintaining Budgetary Discipline: Spending and Revenue Options edited by Sherry Snyder (1999)
"It ordered three Seawolf class submarines in the late and and is procuring the
Virginia class New attack submarine (NSSN) to be their lower-cost successor. ..."
2. Special Operations Forces: Roles And Missions In The Aftermath Of The Cold War by Wayne A. (FRW) Downing (1996)
"The New attack submarine now being designed at Electric Boat will be designed
... This New attack submarine will be built with an integral 9-man lock-out ..."
3. Attack Submarines: Alternatives for a More Affordable SSN Force Structure by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Although no final decision has been made about which new attack submarine design
will be built, the Navy expects it to be as quiet as the Seawolf but ..."