Sentence examples for during a missile from inspiring English sources
He was killed during a missile attack.
Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of the allied forces in Iraq, recently told reporters that he was "terrified" as he flew in a C-130 that dropped flares and banked hard during a missile warning.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The French military took responsibility on Friday for killing four Afghan children during a missile strike in early April, and NATO said it was investigating allegations of a military convoy gunning down two Afghan women and a girl in southeastern Afghanistan.
Slight though it may be, "Yana's Friends" is life-affirming and filled with comic spirit that erupts even at the worst of times, as when predestined lovers try to kiss while wearing gas masks in a sealed room during a missile attack.
Al Deeri's family told Al Jazeera that the journalist died after crashing his car into a rebel vehicle in the city of Al Sheikh Maskin, the same part of the country where three journalists from the opposition television network Orient News were killed during a missile strike earlier this week.
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The latest intercontinental ballistic missile test occurred at the end of July, during which a missile flew for roughly 45 minutes — the longest time yet — before crashing into the Sea of Japan.
Proponents of "boost phase" defence, as it is called, point out that during its ascent a missile is easier to hit because it travels slowly and presents a large, easier-to-pinpoint target thanks to un-jettisoned fuel tanks and the heat from its exhaust plume.
In the unlikely event that either ABMs or lasers could be made to hit a missile during its boost phase, they would not destroy the hardened warhead.
In a practice session writer sees one trainee flubbing a simple countdown & a staff member complains about a former student who during an exercise launched a missile when he was not authorized to.
Backers of the space shield, which military officials described in detail during a three-day briefing on missile defense here this week, say it would be a crucial part of the Bush administration's plans for a layered defense that would take multiple shots at a missile during various phases of its flight.
