ballistic missile
ballistic missile
Definition
ballistic missile
noun
a long-range missile that is propelled to high speed and may be guided for a part of its flight, but is a free-falling object as it approaches its target
ballistic missile
Usage Examples
Converse of subject
- pose: Offer the longer-term goal of eliminating the threat posed by ballistic missiles to all the people of the globe.
Converse of object
- submarine-launch: Over the same period, the Soviet Union built 4 new classes of submarine-launched ballistic missiles and over 60 new missile submarines.
- intercept: At sea, SM-3 missiles would be launched from Aegis destroyers, to intercept incoming ballistic missiles.
- develop: Under the UN agreement after the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam is allowed to develop only short-range ballistic missiles.
- fire: The Americans are also preparing their missiles - Trident ballistic missiles fired from submarines.
- arm: America faces the possibility of catastrophic attack from ballistic missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction.
- build: They have continued to build far more intercontinental ballistic missiles than they could possibly need simply to deter an attack.
Adjective modifier
- intercontinental: They have continued to build far more intercontinental ballistic missiles than they could possibly need simply to deter an attack.
- short-range: Under the UN agreement after the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam is allowed to develop only short-range ballistic missiles.
- incoming: At sea, SM-3 missiles would be launched from Aegis destroyers, to intercept incoming ballistic missiles.
- nuclear: Russian submarines carrying ballistic nuclear missiles went to battle stations.
- other: Design work for other ballistic missiles over the UN limit of 150km continues.
- longer-range: Both India and Pakistan are pressing ahead with development and testing of longer-range ballistic missiles and are inducting additional SRBMs into missile units.
Preposition: over
- limit: Design work for other ballistic missiles over the UN limit of 150km continues.
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