Missiles in a sentence

The airframe is equipped with a 30mm GSh-30-1 cannon and ten hard points capable of carrying a range of missiles, including radar-guided air-to-air missiles, infrared-homing air-to-air missiles and medium-to-long range air-to-air missiles.

In November, South Korea’s military said North Korea is suspected of sending short-range ballistic missiles, anti-tank missiles and portable anti-aircraft missiles to Russia, in addition to rifles, rocket launchers, mortars and shells.

These weapons supplement the country’s huge line-up of ballistic missiles, including short-range solid-fuel missiles aimed at overwhelming missile defences in South Korea and intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to reach the US mainland.

The Sudanese government had attempted to buy North Korean medium-range ballistic missiles, short-range missiles, and anti-tank missiles, the cable revealed.

By 1988, Iran had become self-sufficient in many areas, such as anti-tank TOW missiles, Scud ballistic missiles ( Shahab-1 ), Silkworm anti-ship missiles, Oghab tactical rockets, and producing spare parts for their weaponry.

Despite this, cruise missiles have not made ballistic missiles obsolete, due to the second major advantage: Ballistic missiles can travel extremely quickly along their flight path.

Patriot PAC-3, GEM, and GEM+ missiles both had a very high success rate, intercepting Al-Samoud 2 and Ababil-100 tactical ballistic missiles. citation However, no longer-range ballistic missiles were fired during that conflict.

Britain has also announced almost 600 more Brimstone missiles will be donated to Ukraine, to boost its offensive capability, as well as air defence missiles.

In February 2022, Nasrallah said Hezbollah had "the capacity to transform our missiles into precision missiles".

Karen Pierce, the British ambassador to Washington, stated the Biden administration was “very snug” with London’s latest determination to offer Storm Shadow missiles, which have a longer-range than the missiles despatched to date by the United States.

My personal recommendation would be to use the vertical plasma missiles, unless you are in an enclosed space and regular missiles (that fire forward rather than up) are more suitable.

The city’s military administration said that air defence systems destroyed a “significant part” of the missiles, which they said included Iskander ballistic missiles.

The drone was in the same shipment as a number of surface-to-air missiles and components for Iranian Project 351 land attack cruise missiles.

The Pentagon said Tuesday that US military forces shot down 12 attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two land attack cruise missiles in the southern Red Sea that were fired by Huthis over a 10-hour period.

Daniel Hagari, said Iran fired scores of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles — with the vast majority intercepted outside Israel's borders.

Estimates suggest Hezbollah has an arsenal of 150,000 rockets and missiles, including precision-guided missiles.

In a statement, the Houthi military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said the militant group fired ballistic missiles at the American destroyer, naval missiles at a ship called the Captain Paris, and drones at a ship called the Happy Condor.

In terms of defensive capabilities, USS is equipped with the RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile for short-range defense against cruise missiles and aircraft, and the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile for close-in defense against missiles and aircraft.

In yet another barrage aimed at Ukrainian cities, Russia bombarded Kyiv with 62 cruise missiles and 35 Iranian-built Shahed drones on January 2. Ukrainian air defense intercepted most of the missiles and drones.

Iran is estimated to have thousands of ballistic missiles – which travel at high parabolic trajectories – as well as cruise missiles that can travel at a lower altitude.