Small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States

Usage examples of sidewinder.

We need Strike, Bullpup, Walleye, Falcon, Sparrow, and Sidewinder missiles.

That would be the worst result possible, of course, if the nifty little Sidewinder blew right past the two Migs and headed for my lead.

Jake put the pipper in the heads-up display on the plane, and got a rattling tone in his ears, the locked-on signal from the heat-seeking Sidewinder that had given the missile its name.

High Apacheria got too cold for a sand-loving sidewinder on many a night, and the critters only bred where they could make it through the whole year.

Mister, you did this part of the country a favor by killing those murderin' sidewinders.

Seconds later Humphrey got a blinking diamond in the middle right side of his heads-up display, indicating that the first-up Sidewinder had locked on to the bizjet and was in the launch zone.

That is, be on station quickly, unleash whatever bomb loads they might have, then loiter over the battle area and apply force -whether it be Sidewinders, cannon fire, or air-to-surface missiles -as needed.

And the only ones he had seen were those of bighorn sheep and the odd twisting trail of a sidewinder.

Its bomb racks had been packed with cluster bombs, and while Hunter was normally a cautious person to a fault, he had decided not to pack on board his usual compliment of two Sidewinder missiles for the attack on the Florida beaches.

While the Pony Express is defying deserts, savages and sidewinders, Tristero's giving its employees crash courses in Siouan and Athapascan dialects.

I can ran faster backward than anybody else can run forrad, I can jump over the outermost moon with one hand tied behind me, I can fill an inside straight every time I draw, an' if any sidewinder here says it ain't so I'll fill him so full o' lead they'll mine him!

Of these three, one was chased down and destroyed by a medium-range Sidewinder heat-seeking missile.

If I say nothing-or if you keep jamming and I'm not allowed to say anything-those boys come in hellbent for blood and with itchy trigger fingers on real Sidewinders.

In places, dunes covered the road entirely, the sand printed with the laddering tracks of enormous sidewinders, six to eight feet long.

At this range, even a Sidewinder might scoot past the target before its one-track mind could track on the MiG's exhaust and correct the missile's course, and if he dropped back for more room, the more maneuverable Fulcrum would give him the slip.