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  • noun Plural form of hardpoint.

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Examples

  • Barnes would have scoped nearest anti-zombie hardpoints within 300 meters of the restaurant.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Strictly no faffing. This is serious. 2009

  • My skull has hardpoints, and my forebrain is armed to the teeth.

    Nervous Energy 2010

  • Mounting 4 x 20mm cannon it could carry up to 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) of ordnance on 15 external hardpoints including bombs, torpedoes, mine dispensers, unguided rockets, or gun pods.

    Of New Kit, New Tricks and Cavalry 2007

  • Mounting 4 x 20mm cannon it could carry up to 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) of ordnance on 15 external hardpoints including bombs, torpedoes, mine dispensers, unguided rockets, or gun pods.

    Archive 2007-10-07 2007

  • That means Wi-Fi connectivity only and the mythical ‘inductive charging’, or power without any hardpoints.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Macworld = Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy 2008

  • Of course using the external hardpoints affect the weight, drag and range for both aircraft.

    Canada and the F-35: A non-story 2007

  • The CF-188 can carry 15,500lbs in external stores, and the F-35 is listed as capable of 15,000+ lbs on external hardpoints.

    Canada and the F-35: A non-story 2007

  • As he watched, locking his target designator onto the hot IR glow of the bomber's twin engines, first one, then the other of those sleek and deadly darts dropped from their hardpoints, igniting tails of orange flame and unraveling contrails of white smoke.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • Rather than face the drastically heightened risks of a night mission, he would have to scrub the alpha strike until tomorrow, and that meant the Marine assault would be going in with a lot more enemy hardpoints and radar sites operational than would be the case otherwise.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • Foreign Ministry last week he was informed that the Government had ordered Pilatus to modify the PC-7's so that they do not have the underwing hardpoints and that the South African Air Force had accepted that they be delivered without any provision for armament.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

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