What is "missiles"

Usage examples of "missiles".

Tenth Squadron belched homing missiles, but the reply was pitiful beside the holocaust racing for it, and the enemy drive fields peaked as they charged in for the kill.

They ripped through her weapon bays, mangling her force beams and crippling her point defense, and the capital missiles screamed in to complete her destruction.

His missiles were getting through despite her readied point defense, but her armor must be incredible.

The ones which had launched were doing their best, but once their missiles were expended they would have only their single onboard laser mounts, because there would no longer be any hangar decks to rearm them.

These are oneand two-man craft, armed with short-ranged missiles and light lasers, capable of operating up to several light-minutes from their carriers.

Admiral Antonov seems to feel his mobile units can handle it with evasive maneuvering and anti-drive missiles now that he knows about it.

His entire being, focused on his targeting scope, willed his heavy, short-ranged close-attack missiles through the wavering distortion of this unreal-seeming space as the 509th Fighter Squadron fired.

A handful of capital missiles vanished in the fireball intercepts of defensive missiles, but not enough to make any difference at all, and she tightened internally as the lasers began to fire.

With the newly revealed range of their heavy missiles to support their fighter strikes, any action beyond energy-weapons range would be both suicidal and pointless.

There was every reason to assume the missiles had devastated the Theban fortresses as planned, but there was no way to be sure until living flesh committed itself to that warp transit.

He knew too much about what waited beyond that warp point, knew too many of the officers and men those missiles were about to kill.

Targeting systems stabilized and locked, and hundreds of missiles leapt from their launchers.

The devils in Lorelei had pounded his defenses for days, sending wave after wave of hell-spawned missiles through the warp point.

More and more missiles pounded his ship, and the fighters closed on their heels with lasers.

The warp point was a boil of bleeding capital ships and fishtailing strikefighters lit by the flash and glare of fighter missiles, and her own ship was sixteen light-seconds from it.