Sentence examples for missile type from inspiring English sources

Cruise missile, type of low-flying strategic guided missile.

Smart bomb, also called smart missile, type of precision-guided munition.

Shooting down the moon The long and the short of it ReprintsAccording to an analysis of the basic science and technology of boost-phase systems, the performance needed to intercept a solid-fuel missile (a type likely to be used) would require unrealistically large and powerful interceptor missiles.

"I feel like we are on the brink of another possible Cuban Missile Crisis type of situation, where one wrong move could lead to a disastrous outcome," O'Neal said.

Twenty Ajax missiles, a type of Nike, were hidden there in underground concrete bunkers; the radar systems that guided them were two miles away on Davids Island, just off New Rochelle.

It is almost a certainty that North Korea doesn't have the ability to manufacture a nuclear warhead for a missile of this type, but with another type of WMD — such as chemical weapons or even a plain Jane explosive warhead — the rocket could ruin a lot of things at the point of impact.

The former newsman, who says he was given the blurry photograph "by a guy in Montana," asserts that the object was either the alien spacecraft or a missile of the type that brought down T.W.A. Flight 800 last summer.

Moreover, it was difficult, although not impossible, to launch a Scud B type missile from a submerged submarine.

This is relatively simple technology to obtain and the going price for a Scud B type missile in the world's arms market is in fact approximately $100,000.

The combination of even a relatively low yield warhead combined with a ship launched Scud B type missile represented a new and unprecedented threat to American security.

Yet it's not believed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile of the type that the U.S. fears North Korea is developing.