Sentence examples for antiaircraft range from inspiring English sources

This weapon, which can be mounted onto the smallest surface vessels as well as aircraft and submarines, is especially dangerous to aircraft carriers because it can be launched outside antiaircraft range and, being unmanned, cannot be distracted easily by defensive fire.

Close range antiaircraft defense was provided by a battery of eight 37 mm guns in twin mounts and thirty-two 13.2 mm guns in quadruple mounts.

At the same time, most cruisers were converted to carry long-range antiaircraft missiles.

Over time its armament was modernized with longer-range antiaircraft and antiship missiles and also the Tomahawk cruise missile.

The Bomarc was a winged, long-range antiaircraft missile armed with a thermonuclear warhead that could destroy whole formations of bombers with one shot.

Four minutes earlier, a Ukrainian air defense exercise fired two long-range antiaircraft missiles at a drone off the Black Sea's Crimean coast.

Russia's military had initially ridiculed the theory that a long-range antiaircraft missile, known here by its Russian name, S-200, that was fired in the Ukrainian military exercise on Thursday, had caused the crash.

The damage reported on Saturday is consistent with what experts say would happen if the long-range antiaircraft missiles used in the Ukrainian military exercise on Thursday hit the plane.

In an interview last week, an official at the St . Petersburgplant that manufactures long-range antiaircraft missiles said it was theoretically possible for the missile to "retarget" after missing its original target, if the new object has a sufficiently bright radar signal and is relatively slow moving.

As Black Sea salvage ships ferried the shattered wreckage of a Siberian Airlines jet to Russia's shore, Pentagon officials said they strongly believed that a long-range antiaircraft missile fired during a major Ukrainian training exercise had struck the jet before it exploded and crashed Thursday.

But his description was consistent with the damage experts say would be wrought by the long-range antiaircraft missiles used in the Ukrainian exercise, which destroy their targets by spraying them with shrapnel-like steel balls rather than detonating an explosive warhead.