Sentence examples for So missiles from inspiring English sources
And they note that, throughout the years of growing concord under Kuomintang rule, Beijing has taken no steps to remove the 700 or so missiles permanently pointed at the island.
To avoid other countries, North Korea launches test missiles at a much higher-than-normal trajectory — nearly straight up — so missiles come down in the Sea of Japan East Seaa).
But missile attacks on ships are rare, so it is difficult to know just how safe a ship really is especially if an attacker launches a dozen or so missiles at once.One particular anti-ship missile has become especially worrying for Western defence chiefs.
A "framework" might yet be acceptable to Mr Putin, if the promises of restraint were specific and credible enough and if America enshrined in the deal a reduction of its offensive nuclear force from today's 6,000 or so missiles to 1,500, which Russia wants and Mr Bush has offered.
It will find Mr Chen an even more awkward customer if his Democratic Progressive Party wins enough seats to control parliament later this year.Mr Chen also annoyed President Bush earlier this year, by holding a referendum to coincide with his re-election bid, highlighting the threat to Taiwan from the 500 or so missiles China has pointed at the island.
So missile sales still flourish.
However, during the closing years of Clinton's presidency it became clear that both ballistic missile technology and nuclear weapons were being pursued by a number of radical governments, so missile defense was getting renewed attention even before Republicans recovered control of the White House.
The newer EB-66E was tasked with jamming surface-to-air missile (SAM) radar guidance systems so their missiles could not accurately target the aircraft.
And we made a determination to do it, so the missiles were on the way.
Defense officials said the B-52's mission last week did not include training runs, so the missiles were never meant to be launched.
And even if Taiwan had these ships and the antimissile systems worked perfectly, China has so many missiles it could always overwhelm them with a large attack.
