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a. Designed to intercept and destroy another missile in flight. n. A missile or system designed to intercept and destroy another missile in flight.
Usage examples of "antimissile".
Moreover, Germany had given the Turkish military Patriot antimissile interceptors, a move intended to protect the Turks against an Iraqi missile attack, but which the Bush administration hoped would make Ankara more receptive to the idea of opening a northern front.
And anyway, she told the grand marshall, she thought there might be antimissile weapons emplaced around the laboratory.
Imperial battleship seethed flame as its antimissile batteries and lasers went after the incoming missiles from the Honjo destroyers.
Is it true you defected because Washington abandoned your antimissile program?
First, will you describe the progress of the United States experiments with the antimissile Gamma Five?
In other words, I started all over again, as though there had never been any antimissile work done.
One day I asked the major how many megatons would have to be contained in the warhead of an antimissile missile in order to guarantee interception of aa SS9 missile with multiple warheads.
The antimissile complexes on the western outskirts of Moscow are badly damaged.
AMNAT is within 72 hours of putting an impregnable string of antimissile satellites on line, and the remorseless logic of game theory compels SOVWAR to go SACPOP while it still has the chance.
REDCHI goes to DEFCON 3, in response to which SOVWAR airfields and antimissile networks from Irkutsk to the Dzhugdzhur Range go to DEFCON 5, in response to which AMNAT-SAC bombers and antimissile-missile silos in Nebraska and South Dakota and Saskatchewan and eastern Spain assume a Maximum Readiness posture.
A single one-megaton SS10 evades antimissile missiles and detonates just over Provo UT, from which all communications abruptly cease.
Before Pshing could answer, antimissiles roared off their launch platforms.
If a fight breaks out here, the berserker will swamp our own screens and antimissiles.
It'll not only have a monstrous offensive arsenal, it'll bristle with defenses: forcefields, antimissiles, interceptor beam projectors.
But it would introduce a tree of random deviations into their attack on the antimissiles.