Mr. Smith also said Mr. Dashti had kept a large collection of weapons locked in a closet.

"So long as they've got weapons locked on us, they can't fire at the planet below."

If so, they now knew there were Tomcats in the area with weapons locked on them.

"They've still got weapons locked on us, sir," Yamani said.

One good thing about a rear-echelon base was you could count on weapons being locked in armories.

Truon Le tapped the console that controlled the weapons locked on the oncoming cruiser; four missiles should have streaked outward carrying fire and death to the enemy.

More orders to give, evicting the Insystem Security monitor teams that had the weapons locked down, to Engineering to bring up the drives.

He smacked back the bolt, bringing the muzzle of the weapon up over the hood, his left fist locked on the wheel again.