Sentence examples for basing mode from inspiring English sources

The SLCM and GLCM were essentially the same configuration, differing only in their basing mode.

Even in the unlikely event that a survivable, politically acceptable basing mode could be found for the MX, the missile is not the best response to the threat posed by the huge multiple-warhead strategic missiles that have been deployed by the Soviet Union.

The amendment approved by the Senate last week would allow the Air Force to build 12 missiles next year, and would accept the probable necessity for production of several dozen more as spares and test vehicles, but total MX deployment would be limited to 50 unless the Administration came up with a survivable basing mode acceptable to Congress.

Mr. Reagan spurned that basing mode, and some 30 other modes were found deficient.

In addition to their accuracy, these ICBMs represented a new generation in basing mode.

Strategic ballistic missiles can be divided into two general categories according to their basing mode: those that are launched from land and those launched at sea (from submarines beneath the surface).

Gone forever, in the Bush view, is the age in which American negotiators and their Russian counterparts haggled for months or years over multiple warheads and megatonnage, throw-weights and basing modes.

What's more, Mr. Bush is discussing the possibility of making such reductions unilaterally, rather than through years of negotiations with Russia or China over accuracy, throw-weights, basing modes, build-downs and other esoterica.

Several months ago I asked Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to examine all available technologies and basing modes for effective missile defenses that could protect the United States, our deployed forces, our friends and our allies.

In order to be able to evade attack by Soviet ICBMs, which lagged behind U.S. ICBMs in accuracy but were far more powerful, several types of basing modes were proposed for the MX.

The robustness is ensured by the lower hierarchical level, functioning in an agent based mode.