Sentence examples for big missiles from inspiring English sources

Military officers joked about the phallic symbolism of their big missiles and warheads — and of emasculating the enemy.

Big missiles, the reasoning goes, are lumbering, fire-breathing monsters built more for prestige, intimidation and political symbolism than for firing at enemies half-way around the globe.

Robert D. Walpole, the national intelligence officer for strategic and nuclear programs at the Central Intelligence Agency, told Congress last year that attackers who target America with weapons of mass destruction are "probably more likely" to use suitcases, cars, jets, rockets and other small launchers than big missiles.

That little command rockets system was something we tried but we didn't give the rocket instructions to launch big missiles.

In fact, Aladeen is obsessed with nuclear capability and succumbs to Freudian rage at the thought of not having a big missile.

There was a fear that the war might reach our area because it contained lots of big missile launchers, not to mention the warplanes hidden in the nearby farms, so we were in great danger.

For half a century, big missile submarines, known as boomers, have been arguably the most decisive weapon systems in modern warfare – the queen on the strategic chessboard – because of their capacity to remain unseen until the critical moment, unleashing enormous destructive force without warning.

The new report, by the British American Information Council BASIC, an independent security think-tank, says that advances in underwater drone and sensor technology will in the future make it impossible to hide a 'boomer', a big missile submarine, in the deep ocean, which - if not transparent - will be a great deal less opaque than it is now.

Devices like these have still to be perfected, but the world's militaries are pouring money into their development, At Nato's Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation near La Spezia in northern Italy, and at more lavishly funded laboratories and workshops in Russia, China and the US, people go to work every day to make the big missile submarines redundant.

There was a big missile gap, all right.

North Korea Speaks Softly and Launches a Big Missile.