Sentence examples for missile malfunction from inspiring English sources

Once again a missile malfunction resulted in the abortion of the experiment.

Theresa May risks undermining support for the UK's nuclear deterrent by refusing to say that Britain understands why a missile malfunctioned during a test, a leading expert on Trident said last night.

Labour and the Scottish National party said the prime minister must explain herself after it emerged that an unarmed missile malfunctioned during a rare test last June, shortly before MPs passed a motion in favour of replacing four submarines carrying Trident missiles at a cost of £40bn.

The drill had to be aborted, however, when the target missile malfunctioned shortly after launch.

With a Kill Ratio of five, both sides would still have a margin of safety in case their missiles malfunction or fail to hit their targets.

American helicopter gunships operating in support of the Afghan special forces caused several civilian casualties when "one of the missiles malfunctioned," the United States military command said in a statement.

He is adamant about the reality of UFOs because he says that in 1967, while in an underground nuclear launch facility at Malmstrom Air Force base in 1967, UFOs approached the facility at the same time the missiles malfunctioned and went offline.

Four years later, no bomb, no heat seeking missile, no malfunction, no buildup of electricity in Boeing 747 fuel tanks.

It assumed that one-quarter of the missiles would malfunction, and that 12 missiles carrying 48 nuclear warheads would reach their targets in eight American cities in the middle of the night.

A Burevestnik cruise missile could easily malfunction and spread radiation over a wide area that Russia did not intend to hit, potentially even Russia itself.

Who knows, maybe the computers attached to nuclear missiles might even malfunction.