Sentence examples for ballistic from inspiring English sources

However, a South Korean defence official said separately that North Korea could develop a fully operational submarine with ballistic missiles within two or three years.

North Korea's recent test-firing of a ballistic missile from a submarine was "very serious and concerning", South Korea said on Monday, with one defence official suggesting Pyongyang could have a fully operational platform in two or three years.

Last year there was even talk at the FCO of giving to the Armenian Genocide Museum copies of some files in the National Archives attesting to the Ottoman atrocities: this was turned down, ostensibly because the photocopying costs of £431.20 could not be afforded, but probably because the Turks would go ballistic.

There has been little success in getting Kim Jong-un or his father before him to give up their nuclear weapons – or to stop the country's ballistic missile development.

Last year they displayed their Chinese-made intermediate-range ballistic missiles — capable of reaching Tehran — at a parade attended by the general who controls Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

"Everyone is going ballistic on the Internet today," she added, "because they say the film is white-focused".

China now has mobile missiles that might survive a first strike, and is deploying its own fleet of ballistic-missile submarines.

It has increasingly effective anti-ballistic missile systems that it can share with allies; they might sometimes be destabilising, but perhaps not as much so as proliferation would be.

The two men made a joint statement reaffirming the importance of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty between the United States and the old Soviet Union.

Russia has had an array of 100 ballistic-missile interceptors ringing Moscow that are capable of providing protection against limited ballistic-missile attacks for many years now.

"We have found ourselves in a very tight spot" because "the medium-range ballistic-missile threat is emerging very rapidly," General Lester Lyles, former head of missile defence, volunteered earlier this year.Compared with the Pentagon's freely admitted worries, Israel's defence establishment tells a more upbeat story.