Sentence examples for missile damage from inspiring English sources

Boeing has told the board that there was no evidence of a bomb or missile damage.

Assessments of bomb and missile damage to targets in Afghanistan were still being gathered and analyzed today after a first day of strikes in which American and British forces hit 31 targets, said Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Twenty rockets and mortar shells fell inside Israel on Sunday; one missile damaged an empty kindergarten in Ashdod.

In addition to causing minor injury the missiles damaged several parked cars in the car park outside the ground.

Tom Coghlan (@TomCoghlan) Apparent missile shrapnel damage to forward cargo bay section of #MH17 corroborated by aviation experts.

The two simulations were performed related to two series of tests: (1) two tests on the impact of a deformable missile exhibiting damage mainly by flexural (so-called "flexural tests") or global response and (2) three tests on the impact of a rigid missile exhibiting damage mainly by punching response (so-called "punching tests") or local response.

By crunching data from drone sensors and military databases, it might be possible to predict, for example, that a strike from a missile could damage a nearby religious building.

1.46pm BST I've just spoken to David Gleave, a former air safety investigator and now a researcher at Loughborough University, about pictures that appear to show missile shrapnel damage to the aircraft.

Fast-moving missiles can damage pipes and release their contents: this was a factor in the Piper Alpha disaster, and in other accident contexts that are important in offshore engineering.

But just falling back in isn't enough if the bomb on board the missile gets damaged in the process.

Soon after Flight 825 took off, a group of ZIPRA guerrillas scored a direct hit on its starboard wing with a Soviet-made Strela 2 surface-to-air infrared homing missile, critically damaging the aircraft and forcing an emergency landing.