Sentence examples for missile experimental from inspiring English sources

The MX (the letters stand for missile experimental) is designed to have a range of about 7,000 miles.

The MX (for "missile experimental") was the most-sophisticated ICBM fielded by the United States during the Cold War against the Soviet Union.

The hard-to-hit land missile now under development, the MX (for missile experimental), will not be ready for duty until 1986, and probably later, given the usual slippages.

Mr. Cantrell's experimental missile program, which had cost nearly $250 million, was about to be canceled.

The fear was that the Soviet Union could use it to spy on British nuclear tests, to be carried out from an experimental missile station on South Uist.

He started as a scientist of experimental missile re-entry at Lockheed in the 1950's and rose to become chief executive of Lockheed and later, Lockheed Martin, one of the nation's biggest military contractors.

His proposal, which was based on the premise that Congress would significantly increase annual financing for his experimental missile defense work, involved not just five test launchings, but the construction of a new launching site on a remote Alaskan island and the lease of a mothballed Navy helicopter carrier, which would be used to send the simulated attack missile.

They could have other military uses, too: in 2006, Lockheed Martin is due to position a prototype airship over the city of Akron, Ohio, once the centre of Goodyear's blimp operation, as part of an experimental missile-defence system.

Since 2008, the military has used unmanned F-4 Phantoms to test fire experimental missiles, and rumors continue to swirl that the next generation long-range stealth bomber, capable of delivering nuclear weapons, could be unmanned.

One place to start slashing would be the experimental Standard Missile-3 IIB missile defense program, an interceptor that is to one day take out long-range enemy missiles.

Even if the threat turns out to be more imminent, the technology for long-range missile defenses is still experimental.