shipborne
adjective
ship·borne
ˈship-ˌbȯrn 
: transported or designed to be transported by ship
shipborne aircraft
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The shipborne system draws tracking data from the Baden-Württemberg’s TRS-4D AESA radar, integrated into its combat management system.
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
By leveraging the railgun's high velocity and extended range, a layered air-defense network could be established in conjunction with shipborne surface-to-air missiles.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Anand Mahindra’s Mahindra & Mahindra group, has tied up with Aeronautics of Israel for naval shipborne UAVs.
—Ramakrishnan Narayanan, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping rejected the decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which is likely to have lasting implications for the resource-rich hot spot, which sees $5 trillion worth of shipborne trade pass through each year.
—James Griffiths, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
With everything from notable partnerships between James Beard and Windstar and Thomas Keller on Seaborne, the offerings tend to be shipborne.
—Peter Jon Lindberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2019
By 2011, when Perovich met Webster on a shipborne experiment, climate change had reduced the summertime Arctic's frozen area by half.
—Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
The shipborne rolling vertical landing will allow F-35Bs to land on the U.K.’s new carriers with larger payloads, eliminating the need to jettison expensive stores just to land on ships.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
Her mother died of a shipborne illness on the long passage over the Atlantic in 1840.
—Rachel Syme, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
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Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
By leveraging the railgun's high velocity and extended range, a layered air-defense network could be established in conjunction with shipborne surface-to-air missiles.
—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Anand Mahindra’s Mahindra & Mahindra group, has tied up with Aeronautics of Israel for naval shipborne UAVs.
—Ramakrishnan Narayanan, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping rejected the decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which is likely to have lasting implications for the resource-rich hot spot, which sees $5 trillion worth of shipborne trade pass through each year.
—James Griffiths, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
With everything from notable partnerships between James Beard and Windstar and Thomas Keller on Seaborne, the offerings tend to be shipborne.
—Peter Jon Lindberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2019
By 2011, when Perovich met Webster on a shipborne experiment, climate change had reduced the summertime Arctic's frozen area by half.
—Anchorage Daily News, 13 June 2019
The shipborne rolling vertical landing will allow F-35Bs to land on the U.K.’s new carriers with larger payloads, eliminating the need to jettison expensive stores just to land on ships.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
Her mother died of a shipborne illness on the long passage over the Atlantic in 1840.
—Rachel Syme, New Republic, 3 Nov. 2017
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“Shipborne.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shipborne. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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