interceptor

Converse of object

• launch: Several minutes later, an interceptor launched from the Marshall Islands will attempt to kill the warhead.
• include: The capabilities will include ground-based interceptors, sea-based interceptors, additional Patriot units and sensors on land, sea and space.
• allow: Allows an Interceptor to query the exception's information before it is thrown to the client.
• develop: The Pentagon plans to develop sea-based interceptors, fit lasers to planes, and to explore the use of firing rockets from space.
• use: In February we used the same interceptor to attempt another flight test.
• deploy: But deploying such interceptors would not eliminate the desire for forward-deployed radars.

Adjective modifier

• sea-based: The Bush plan might also call for the development of sea-based interceptors, which are likely to be modified versions of the land-based interceptors.
• ground-based: The planned burnout speed of the ground-based interceptors is reported to be 7 to 8 km/s.
• space-based: A constellation of space-based kinetic interceptors could not be deployed for many years, although small numbers of prototypes could possibly be deployed earlier.
• all-weather: Capable of duties as a single-seat fighter bomber, high speed reconnaissance, heavy fighter, and two seat night and all-weather interceptor.

Modifies a noun

• sewer: The complete interceptor sewer project cannot be delivered prior to the Olympics.
• missile: This requires an interceptor missile close to the point of launch.
• fighter: Our interceptor Fighters were very thin on the ground around this time concentrating on protecting London.
• aircraft: The U.S. interceptor aircraft were armed with nuclear missiles.
• test: The agency said this was the fifth successful interceptor test result out of six attempts.

Noun used with modifier

• jet: The target seemed to pull away swiftly from the jet interceptor.
• missile: Critical elements of the program, such as the booster rocket for the missile interceptor, have yet to be tested.
• fighter: If the fighter interceptors came along up to about 1/2 HOUR LATER the UFO would have been long gone.
• oil: This oil was escaping through a defective oil interceptor to the river nearby.
• defense: The " hit-to-kill " PAC-3 Missile is the world's most capable air and missile defense interceptor.