noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a missile site
▪ There were photos of a missile site under construction.
a missile/rocket/mortar attack
▪ There were 15 dead and 20 wounded in a missile attack on the capital.
ballistic missile
cruise missile
fire bullets/missiles/rockets etc
▪ Guerrillas fired five rockets at the capital yesterday, killing 23 people.
guided missile
long-range...missiles
▪ long-range nuclear missiles
nuclear bomb/weapon/missile etc
▪ the threat of nuclear attack
▪ concern about the country’s nuclear weapons program
surface-to-air missile
surface-to-surface missile
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anti
▪ He hopes to scrap the anti-ballistic missile treaty, destabilising the world's nuclear equilibrium.
▪ In particular, the relationship is becoming increasingly bedevilled by the issue of anti-missile defence.
▪ They are equipped with the 1960s Sea Dart anti-missile system, which is of limited use against modern missiles.
ballistic
▪ He realized that the Soviets were just as capable of adapting a ballistic missile to carry satellites as he was.
▪ He served aboard the Trident ballistic missile submarines Alabama and Florida.
▪ On ballistic missiles, too, plenty of things other than intelligence determine policy.
▪ We must consider whether it would be desirable or possible to do so to sea-launched ballistic missiles.
guided
▪ Something less than a precision guided missile would do the trick.
▪ Henry contrives guided missiles from acid rain test kit and launches attack on manger.
▪ Nuclear warheads were also being developed for defensive guided missiles.
▪ With his eyes flashing, he looked like a black furry guided missile.
incoming
▪ Their armour provides excellent protection from incoming missile fire.
intercontinental
▪ The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, carrying megaton warheads.
▪ The Wyoming was carrying only nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles.
▪ Last month Putin decided to retire silo-housed intercontinental ballistic missiles as their service lives expire.
▪ The deal will eliminate heavy intercontinental missiles and multiple-warhead missiles, the most devastating weapons mankind has ever devised.
▪ All of these are easier to build than an intercontinental missile.
national
▪ Pressing for a huge tax cut and insisting on his plans for a national missile defence fit this picture.
▪ He has been appointed, as Bush has made clear, to build national missile defences.
▪ There is already tension over the controversial national missile defence system.
▪ The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense.
▪ It has dangerously upset the strategic balance by proposing a new national missile defence system.
new
▪ For example, new antitank missiles, particularly when used from helicopters, are making main battle tanks obsolete.
▪ How distant now seem the quarrels of the spring over the introduction of new short-range missiles.
▪ These babies are to be the first of a new kind of missile, powered by life.
▪ Another project that the ministry has suddenly accelerated after two years of inaction is a new missile designed to destroy enemy radars.
▪ It has dangerously upset the strategic balance by proposing a new national missile defence system.
▪ The first part of the job requires new missiles that can be easily transported, and radars to guide them.
▪ The new SA-10 surface-to-air missile, being installed across the Soviet Union, can also shoot down cruise missiles.
▪ They will also be armed with eight new anti-ship missiles, compared with four Exocets on their predecessors.
nuclear
▪ Even short-range nuclear missiles are tactical.
▪ What about all those other enemies about to target nuclear missiles at the United States?
▪ As for Mrs Thatcher's loudly voiced determination to force through a replacement of the Lance nuclear missile, nobody is listening.
▪ What more can you ask for from a thriller about renegades who steal nuclear missiles?
▪ If the nuclear missiles are militarily useless, why risk alienating the West by hanging on to them?
▪ If they accepted, nuclear missiles would vanish from the earth.
▪ Could a computer failure automatically launch a nuclear missile?
▪ A visitor to the control room of this nuclear missile submarine might pass it by without a second thought.
soviet
▪ The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, carrying megaton warheads.
▪ It provided basic information on Soviet missile testing and, development.
▪ Schlesinger additionally alleged that storage facilities for Soviet missiles existed at Berbera.
▪ S.-#Soviet missiles crisis of the early 1980s.
▪ The plan is for orbiting laser battle stations which would zap Soviet missiles.
▪ They believed U-2s went much higher and they knew Soviet missiles could not reach these altitudes.
▪ The shelters housing each flight will protect the equipment against a surprise attack by Soviet aircraft or missiles.
▪ They justified the exercise by expressing their skepticism of Soviet missile credibility.
strategic
▪ In August the Soviet Union announced that it would cease producing rail-mounted strategic nuclear missiles from the beginning of 1991.
▪ Dole already has used legislative issues such as gun control and strategic missile defense to score political points.
▪ Unlike the United States, Britain had no large sparsely-populated desert areas in which to deploy strategic missiles.
▪ He had thus had achieved the greatest practicable measure of independence without squandering resources on strategic missile development.
▪ The proposal would have restricted nuclear weapons at sea to strategic missile submarines.
trident
▪ Each tube can hold a Trident missile with up to eight nuclear warheads that can be flung 4, 000 nautical miles.
▪ Putting other Trident missiles and Polaris into international arms reduction talks.
▪ He served aboard the Trident ballistic missile submarines Alabama and Florida.
▪ The Trident missile was launched from a submarine at 7: 16 p. m. off the coast of Florida.
■ NOUN
air
▪ The ride in the air transporter had been bumpy due to air missiles fired in their direction.
▪ The eight surface-to-#air missiles the cruiser carried that night have also been accounted for, sources said.
▪ They use them as a decoy for surface to air missiles and they will do that during training.
▪ It is armed with eight anti- ship missiles, surface-to-#air missiles, two 3. 9-inch guns and torpedoes.
attack
▪ Gates warned that Hussein probably expects another cruise missile attack.
▪ If they wished, they could have ordered an artillery barrage or missile attack on the vehicles.
▪ But the news broadcast after the first missile attack failed to mention it.
▪ Instead, the arsenal ship would have relied on other warships to defend it against missile attacks.
▪ Chief Petty Officer John Strange was badly injured during a missile attack.
▪ The Pentagon ordered up cruise missile attacks from two of the six cruise-missile equipped warships on patrol in the Persian Gulf.
base
▪ The campaign against the Cruise missile bases, in particular, led to passionate demonstrations.
crisis
▪ The missile crisis came and went.
▪ S.-Soviet missiles crisis of the early 1980s.
cruise
▪ Gates warned that Hussein probably expects another cruise missile attack.
▪ Torpedoes, cruise missiles and anti- ship missiles can be stored aboard the tender.
▪ More than one correspondent filed a story describing the spectacle of a Cruise missile travelling up a Baghdad street at hotel window level.
▪ He is part of a detachment which will be responsible for the deployment of cruise missiles.
▪ This would leave nuclear-armed bombers, cruise missiles and depth charges.
▪ The Tomahawk cruise missile, born in 1972 and built here ever since, has flown the coop.
▪ On balance, the Cruise missile demonstrations embarrassed the left, and turned much to Mrs Thatcher's advantage.
▪ A recent example is the termination of the B-1 bomber in favor of the cruise missile.
defence
▪ There is already tension over the controversial national missile defence system.
▪ The missile defence issue is without question the most troublesome, time-consuming and potentially dangerous item on the current international agenda.
▪ The issue, though, is the more sensitive if it is read in conjunction with missile defence.
▪ There will be no blank cheque for missile defence.
▪ I believe all responsible countries should contribute the financial and technological resources to develop a global missile defence system.
▪ The first is the distinct difference between Gore and Bush over missile defence.
▪ The latest example concerns the controversial missile defence system proposed by the United States.
▪ In both cases the White House is promoting the idea that the missile defence row is all over bar the shouting.
defense
▪ The principal goal of administration policy has been to persuade others to endorse missile defense.
▪ We are now in the third round of missile defense debates.
▪ Republicans will point to the failure as proof of the administration's lukewarm commitment to missile defense during the past seven years.
▪ The proposed test program is inadequate to ensure the necessary reliability before we begin to spend big money on national missile defense.
▪ When that happens, it will be too late to start building a missile defense.
▪ Dole already has used legislative issues such as gun control and strategic missile defense to score political points.
▪ Ronald Kadish, and the missile defense manager, Maj.
▪ Boeing's proposals illustrate the difficulty in coming up with a missile defense system any time soon.
exocet
▪ Britain, said the press, was considering buying Exocet missiles, having been caught with trousers down.
fire
▪ Their armour provides excellent protection from incoming missile fire.
▪ That way he can not be targeted by missile fire or some spells and will be potentially protected from war engines.
launcher
▪ The main problem was that the missile launchers were often mobile, moving from site to site.
▪ When his car was past the missile launchers, past the guards, he demanded speed.
▪ Decoy and sabotage have moved far beyond Saddam's cardboard tanks and missile launchers.
▪ They vibrate to the passing of a missile launcher and stir their patient eyelashes.
patriot
▪ It is clear, and unsurprising, that Patriot missiles sometimes fail.
▪ Your immune sys-tem can be likened to a Patriot missile defense system, detecting incoming dangers and destroying them.
▪ The Patriot missile system is a good example.
▪ Most were either destroyed by Patriot missiles or did little damage.
▪ Yet his subsequent collapse from hero to villain has been as sudden as a Patriot missile strike.
▪ The radar beam which tracks the Patriot missile carries instructions updating it on which way to go to head off the enemy.
programme
▪ That loony leftover of a nation surely won't stagger on much longer-and anyway it's suspended its missile programme.
scud
▪ It revealed 10,000 chemical bombs, as well as 50 Scud missiles, including at least 30 with chemical warheads for long-range missiles.
shield
▪ And just as the gated community concept aggravated the problem it purported to solve, so might the missile shield.
▪ Ivanov proposed multilateral talks to assess the threats that prompted the United States to consider developing a missile shield.
site
▪ Suppose that under this defence statute the Government makes an Order requisitioning land for anti-aircraft missile sites.
▪ Any man who had ever worked in a hardened missile site would have felt at home in Clavius.
system
▪ An example of such an organization is General Electronics that produces military products such as radar, underwater defence, and missile systems.
▪ They are equipped with the 1960s Sea Dart anti-missile system, which is of limited use against modern missiles.
▪ There are also important questions about the handling, safeguarding and transport of missile systems.
▪ On July 30 the Defence Ministry announced a decision in principle to purchase anti-aircraft missile systems for the first time.
▪ It was reported that the agreement covered missile systems, light armoured vehicles and sea surveillance aircraft.
▪ The Patriot missile system is a good example.
technology
▪ Nevertheless, they accepted the need for research into missile technology to go ahead in parallel with aircraft development.
▪ So many nations are developing cruise missile technology that a traditional air dominance fighter such as the F-22 could become obsolete.
test
▪ The missile tests are expected to be the start of a series of military exercises, including simulated beach landings.
treaty
▪ He hopes to scrap the anti-ballistic missile treaty, destabilising the world's nuclear equilibrium.
■ VERB
build
▪ Pyongyang now warns that it may be forced to resume building nukes and missiles.
▪ He has been appointed, as Bush has made clear, to build national missile defences.
▪ Britain's stock of plutonium from the civil power programme is estimated to be enough to build 14000 missile warheads.
▪ When that happens, it will be too late to start building a missile defense.
▪ Only weeks ago it awarded a multibillion-dollar contract to build AIM-9X missiles to Hughes in part because of its aggressive pricing.
▪ All of these are easier to build than an intercontinental missile.
carry
▪ He said weapons carried on board were not damaged, but declined to specify if the boat was carrying nuclear or conventional missiles.
▪ They were not armed but carried wingtip dummy missiles.
▪ The current Polaris nuclear submarine fleet carries 192 nuclear missiles, aimed at the heart of the former Soviet Union.
▪ Technicals - trucks carrying cannon, anti-aircraft missiles and rocket launchers, cruise the city centre.
▪ For instance: Does the United States need 18 Trident submarines carrying long-range nuclear missiles?
deploy
▪ Unlike the United States, Britain had no large sparsely-populated desert areas in which to deploy strategic missiles.
▪ Either side could then deploy defenses against missiles.
destroy
▪ Thomas had a mission, to destroy the missile and prevent the shapechanger from carrying out his criminal activities.
▪ Most were either destroyed by Patriot missiles or did little damage.
▪ Enemy tanks could be illuminated with laser beams and destroyed by missiles homing in on the laser frequency.
develop
▪ Indeed, reports have reached the West of Soviet efforts to develop their own cruise missiles.
▪ Ivanov proposed multilateral talks to assess the threats that prompted the United States to consider developing a missile shield.
▪ Nuclear warheads were also being developed for defensive guided missiles.
▪ So many nations are developing cruise missile technology that a traditional air dominance fighter such as the F-22 could become obsolete.
▪ I believe all responsible countries should contribute the financial and technological resources to develop a global missile defence system.
guide
▪ In a conflict these would be vital for military communications, reconnaissance and even guiding missiles to their targets.
▪ These were the first guided missiles. little, if any, chance that they would arrive before the Red Army.
▪ The blast twisted metal and tore through compartments from below the waterline to the superstructure of the guided missile destroyer.
▪ Government expenditures can reabsorb these resources in the production of guided missiles, military aircraft, and new schools and highways.
▪ It will be accompanied by five other warships, including destroyers and guided missile cruisers, and a fuel tanker.
▪ Examples of such a system would be a guided missile or a thermostat or a mechanical governor.
hit
▪ Almost by return, he was hit by a missile which looked like a rotting cabbage.
▪ The Ministry of Defence denied it had been hit in a missile exercise.
▪ Burton Albion were granted a replay against Leicester in 1984-85 after their goalkeeper was hit by a missile.
include
▪ Military uses include controlling small missiles and portable radios.
▪ The Eksund's cargo had included surface-to-air missiles, mortar shells, rocket launchers and semtex high explosive.
▪ It will be accompanied by five other warships, including destroyers and guided missile cruisers, and a fuel tanker.
▪ It includes 200 supersonic air-to-air missiles and military communications equipment.
launch
▪ She saw herself pull back her arm, and, with more than human strength, launch a red missile.
▪ Hekmatyar's fighters quickly joined the fray, launching long-range missile attacks into the city against Masud's forces.
▪ Could a computer failure automatically launch a nuclear missile?
▪ The aircraft would be able to launch the missiles at a considerable distance from well-defended targets.
▪ In theory, the mechanism should also prevent anyone launching the missiles accidentally.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Trident missile/submarine
▪ A Conservative government would press ahead with plans for a fourth Trident submarine and a helicopter carrier.
▪ Each tube can hold a Trident missile with up to eight nuclear warheads that can be flung 4, 000 nautical miles.
▪ The Trident missile was launched from a submarine at 7: 16 p. m. off the coast of Florida.
▪ The Navy has 16 Trident submarines in service.
▪ This country is building three Trident submarines and there is increasing pressure to build a fourth.
tactical weapon/missile
▪ Beneath this umbrella of deterrence are tactical weapons.
▪ But these women also employed medical definitions of physical and mental weakness as an effective tactical weapon in the battle with men.
▪ The possibility of using it as a tactical weapon against the king-duke was too valuable an asset to be abandoned.
▪ Your mission is to boldly go about the galaxy destroying the Klingon forces which possess many new tactical weapons and abilities.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a nuclear missile
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another threat to the F-22, he says, is the cruise missile.
▪ Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed makes military aircraft, space systems, missiles and electronics systems.
▪ How distant now seem the quarrels of the spring over the introduction of new short-range missiles.
▪ It also recommends a study of how to protect aircraft from missiles.
▪ Mention the missile but not the make.
▪ Nevertheless, they accepted the need for research into missile technology to go ahead in parallel with aircraft development.
▪ These missiles are precisely the type of weapons that are demonstrating their effectiveness in the Gulf conflict.
▪ They believed U-2s went much higher and they knew Soviet missiles could not reach these altitudes.