Vocabulary Word
Word: missile
Definition: object to be thrown or projected
Definition: object to be thrown or projected
Sentences Containing 'missile'
In 1963, the more advanced Nike-Hercules missile was distributed to some Nike bases.
The Enterprise is crippled when an intercontinental ballistic missile warhead explodes nearby.
He was in this post when the first Polaris missile was tested and the Faslane submarine base was developed.
Eurockot bought 45 Rokots from the Russian strategic missile forces to build its inventory.
This overhaul included modifications to the fire control system of the Talos missile.
The deployment of US nuclear armed missiles in Turkey triggered the Cuban Missile Crises.
On 6 March, she became the first American gunboat to successfully fire a guided missile.
With the missile study complete on the 12th, the gunboat began another series of experiments.
The missile is deployed on both ships and land-based vehicles.
China was able to produce copies of the Crotale (HQ-7) missile for testing in 1983.
The Argentine Condor missile was a multinational space research program started in the 1970s.
The Alacrán program developed a functional short-range ballistic missile.
The missile was developed in Falda del Carmen, Córdoba Province.
The designer and creator of the missile was MIT-trained engineer Miguel Vicente Guerrero.
High frontier and the space-based missile defense.
The missile deploys its folded wings, tail surfaces and engine inlet after launch.
This allows the missile to guide itself to the target with pinpoint accuracy.
The missile's flight path is pre-programmed and it becomes totally autonomous after launch.
SAGE was never designed to counter a space or missile threat.
As Eurofighter became the driver behind the missile's development, BAe took charge of the programme.
It also includes old Lowry missile silos, and old navigational beacon.
Carol insists on joining him in the dropping of the Green Arrow Industries nuclear missile.
The next few months were spent conducting training for shakedown and missile qualification.
"Stuart" was the first ship to fire an Ikara missile, during trials in August 1963.
The unit was originally established in 1972 as the 14th Missile Warning Squadron.
The 14th Missile Warning Squadron was inactivated in 1980.
All three awards were received while the unit was the 14th Missile Warning Squadron.
He associated with NASA's missile and space rocket program under the mutual agreement with the SUPARCO.
Blazkowicz is parachuted some distance from the missile base and smuggles himself in on a supply truck.
However, the Missile Badge was reinstated in 2009.
A wire-guided missile is a missile that is guided by signals sent to it via thin wires connected between the missile and its guidance mechanism, which is located somewhere near the launch site.
As the missile flies, the wires are reeled out behind it.
A coastal defense version of the missile has also been offered by Aérospatiale.
On the rear underside of the missile is a radar altimeter.
On the rear of the missile are four inline control fins.
The missile is believed to have entered service in the Russian army in 1994.
A ballistic missile is a missile only guided during the relatively brief initial powered phase of flight, whose trajectory is subsequently governed by the laws of classical mechanics, in contrast (for example) to a cruise missile which is aerodynamically guided in powered flight.
Each launching car would carry one missile in a tube that, upon the receipt of an authenticated firing command, would elevate to fire the missile from the bed of the car.
roof panels were designed to fall off when the missile was erected.
Two to three seconds after launch, missile guidance is switched to fully MCLOS mode, and the operator regains full control of the missile.
The basic Javelin missile body was retained in the Starburst surface-to-air missile, but the guidance system was further improved to a self-contained system in the missile itself.
SRAAM was designed to be carried in a launch tube to protect the missile.
The fins on the missile were hinged and designed to extend following launch.
Aerojet Rocketdyne is an American rocket and missile propulsion manufacturer.
The Yugoslav navy operated ten Osa class missile boats and six "Končar" class missile boats.
Garner helped to develop the Patriot missile system and commanded missile batteries during the Gulf War.
The 250th Air Defence Missile Brigade operates SA-3 and SA-6 surface-to-air missile systems.
Later, Detachment 2 of the 14th Missile Warning Squadron was activated at Mount Hebo to operate missile-warning radar.
The "Long Bin" boats did not handle well, the missile launchers caused stability problems and water flow around the missile fittings was very noisy.
The guided missile and radar picket boats were never exported.