Sentence examples for ballistic attack from inspiring English sources
The United States military presented an enhanced version of the Patriot antimissile system, which it said was designed to thwart a ballistic attack from North Korea.
The White House spokesman Jay Carney said "the United States is fully capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic missile attack".
This system aims to protect NATO's European populations and territory against the increasing threat of ballistic missile attack.
Today, Mr. Rumsfeld faced some of the same type of skepticism about the imminence of a ballistic missile attack.
By the end of this decade, NATO will have an operational system that offers protection of all of NATO Europe against the threat of ballistic missile attack from outside of Europe.
Mr. Rumsfeld did not address North Korea today, but his remarks indicated that his assessment of the threat of a ballistic missile attack on America had not changed.
A number of European leaders, including Mr. Putin, have recognized the potential threat of ballistic missile attack from rogue nations -- though most do not see an imminent threat.
Interceptors in Alaska and California have proved they can stop an incoming ICBM with eight successful test kills, leading the White House to declare that we are now "capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic missile attack".
Interceptors in Alaska and California have proved they can stop an incoming I.C.B.M. with eight successful test kills, leading the White House to declare that we are now "capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic missile attack".
The report also warned that the threat of terrorists attacking the United States with weapons of mass destruction delivered by unconventional means is now more likely than the threat posed by states launching a ballistic missile attack.
Defense officials have warned that the military was on a "rigorous schedule" that allowed for few failures in creating the system to protect all 50 states from a limited ballistic missile attack.
