Engaged in or ready for military or naval operations(adjective)
WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
Use "combat-ready" in a sentence
"China's state media are playing down the military threat posed by the country's new aircraft carrier, suggesting it may be 15 to 20 years before China has a combat-ready carrier."
"The Marine Corps, for example, is deploying Marine-tested, combat-ready renewable energy technologies in Afghanistan resulting in two patrol bases being operated entirely on renewable energy."
"It suddenly struck home: Of the more than three hundred war cabayos that landed at Uzita, only eighty remained combat-ready for the vanguard?"