How to Use antimissile in a Sentence

antimissile

adjective
  • The sale of antimissile systems to stop Houthi missile attacks would be allowed under the bill.
    Michael R. Gordon, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2018
  • During tests, the U.S. antimissile defense system was successful only 10 out of 19 times.
    Kevin O’Kelly, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Many more and better air-defense systems, such as Patriot antimissile batteries, should be sent as well.
    Robert Zubrin, National Review, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Ford and ships like it have a battery of antimissile defenses, but none are capable of protecting it in a prolonged battle against China’s latest weapons.
    Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Patriot and other antimissile batteries would also have to be deployed to protect U.S. and allied aircraft in the no-fly zone from Russian missile strikes.
    Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Russia also wants the withdrawal of U.S. troops and antimissile defenses from Europe.
    Rebecca Ballhaus, WSJ, 15 July 2018
  • The neighborhood has turned into a protest zone for people with objections ranging from the presence of a U.S. antimissile system to Legoland Korea over a tiff about building the park above cultural artifacts.
    Hakyung Kim, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The main purpose of this unusual delivery method seems to be bypassing any possible antimissile defences.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 25 Nov. 2015
  • China fears the antimissile system, meant as protection against North Korea, threatens its own security.
    Jane Perlez, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2017
  • Israel considers the use of drones by its enemies, especially Iran, as a major threat to its security because drones can evade Israel’s advanced antimissile systems like the Iron Dome.
    Ronen Bergman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
  • Iron Dome antimissile system, which intercepted thousands of Hamas rockets fired toward Israeli cities.
    Michael Crowley, New York Times, 14 June 2021
  • China has a stranglehold on the world’s supply of rare-earth metals—elements vital to every aspect of modern technology from display screens to antimissile systems.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 27 July 2019
  • The Pentagon is considering sending Patriot antimissile batteries to Ukraine amid the bombardment of cities by Russian missiles and drones.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Recently, however, Moscow has signed contracts to supply its southern neighbor with more natural gas, a nuclear power plant and an advanced antimissile shield.
    David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Korean car makers were similarly hit when the country decided to install an antimissile defense system.
    Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • And key research and development centers, including one used to jam the Israeli antimissile defense system, were destroyed, according to several officers.
    New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • China has long combined its economic and political priorities, using trade as a weapon in recent years in territorial disputes with Japan and the Philippines and to protest South Korea’s installation of an antimissile system.
    Ben Dooley, New York Times, 15 July 2019
  • For example, support for nuclear armament and an American antimissile defense system in South Korea continues to grow.
    Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Commanders are still rushing more Patriot antimissile batteries and other weaponry into Iraq, but are still a week or two away from having the additional defensive systems in place there, a senior U.S. military official said.
    Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The media pilloried Reagan’s antimissile research program, the Strategic Defense Initiative.
    Roger Kimball, WSJ, 30 May 2018
  • Other uses include optimum laser focusing for industrial laser tools and even antimissile military lasers.
    Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2021
  • The Biden administration has transferred a number of Patriot antimissile interceptors to Saudi Arabia.
    WSJ, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Others are being more seriously considered by Republicans and Democrats in Congress, including providing Ukraine with advanced antimissile systems and drones.
    New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Such a tactic, if successfully developed, would help warheads dodge antimissile interceptors.
    Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The opposition to building antimissile defense systems never relented.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Its military routinely obliterates opposing forces with fighter jets, antimissile batteries and newfangled tunnel-destroying tools.
    New York Times, 13 May 2018
  • That makes them virtually unstoppable for the existing American antimissile systems in Alaska and California, which are designed to intercept intercontinental ballistic missile warheads in space, traveling a largely predictable path.
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2019

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