mother ship

Example Sentences

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Companies sell decoys, which trail planes or ships, sometimes looking like a missile, and emit signals to confuse adversaries into targeting it instead of its mother ship.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ukraine, which has its own mother ship drones, is trying to regain the edge.

From The Wall Street Journal

Then you would launch a smaller manned spacecraft from that mother ship, and the smaller craft would fly to the moon.

From Literature

One would stay in the mother ship, and the other two would travel from the mother ship in the Lunar Lander.

From Literature

Over the course of the decade, a series of space missions confirmed that the idea of having a launch vehicle that separated from the mother ship would, in fact, work.

From Literature