The original design, borrowing from the 1910 pattern, was a heavy ground-based weapon fitted with a water-cooling jacket.

The so-called land mattress was a ground-based weapon named after its naval equivalent.

China destroyed an old satellite in 2007 with a ground-based weapon, creating more than 3,000 pieces of orbital debris.

"Vulnerability to attack" by ground-based anti-satellite weapons and lasers "during peacetime is particularly disturbing," it says.

We mean, sir, that it really sustained serious damage in its close attack on the planet Prairie, when it came up against heavy ground-based weapons.

We use ground-based multimegaton-range nuclear weapons to deter approach by enemy forces.

The basis for such a shield might be found in the ground-based, kinetic-energy weapons now under development.

Many were then sent to the army, who started a program to modify them into ground-based weapons by adding a bipod and simple metal stock.

The United States and Britain have strongly opposed such negotiations, which they fear could encourage the elimination of ground-based nuclear weapons from Europe.

Choirs of ground-based weapons are testing their voices.