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n. (cruise missile English)
Usage examples of "cruise missiles".
Lancelot is teamed up with cruise missiles to destroy not only enemy rockets but the launchers as well, and Lancelot even has an antisatellite capability.
He's out there taking shots at our aircraft carriers with Backfire bombers and supersonic cruise missiles just for fun.
In February 1998 he learned from press accounts what he was never told directly: China had pledged not to sell any more cruise missiles to Iran.
Providence, SS-N-719, all Los Angeles-class subs had fifteen vertical launch tubes, designed especially for Tomahawks, mounted within the bow casing between the sub's inner and outer hulls, allowing them to carry full complements of both torpedoes and cruise missiles.
He'd winnowed twenty cruise missiles down to sixteen and perhaps given the Jefferson a fighting chance.
About now in a real attack he'd trigger his cannon and a stream of solid slugs would lance the light armor of the Kirov's forward missile magazines, exploding the SAM and cruise missiles in a huge fireball and slicing through the superstructure as if it were thin as newsprint.
Numerous aircraft circled overhead, and several ships had their search radars on lest a Soviet submarine sneak close inshore and launch cruise missiles into the mass of shipping.
President, that is, you are willing to authorize a strike with cruise missiles.
We won't use them until we explode one of those cruise missiles and see what it's carrying.
He carried twenty-four conventionally armed antiship cruise missiles, a formidable armament of high-tech weapons like the ones the Americans had used with such devastating effect in the Persian Gulf a few years before.
The massive collection of false dots both confused their understanding of the developing air action and knocked back their ability to detect the small but unstealthy cruise missiles.
Best option to take those silos out would be air-launched cruise missiles with W-80 warheads, assuming the President will authorize a nuclear strike on them.