How to Use cruise missile in a Sentence
cruise missile
noun-
So, does the Air Force need its new stealth cruise missile?
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2021 -
Note the drone and cruise missile kill markings on the turret.
— Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The big difference between the cruise missiles and the glide bombs is range.
— David Axe, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024 -
The Houthis unveiled the new cruise missiles this past July and claimed to have new longer-range drones as well.
— Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2019 -
That’s nearly as much as a cruise missile with a range of hundreds of miles.
— David Axe, Forbes, 10 June 2021 -
But each, for the cost of a few cruise missiles, would alter thousands of lives for the better.
— Heather Hurlburt, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Apr. 2018 -
An hour before that, at least one cruise missile was seen flying north of the city.
— Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2022 -
The Air Force released a new video of a B-1 bomber carrying a cruise missile on the outside.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Nov. 2020 -
Of those, Ukraine downed 18 cruise missiles and 25 drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
— Aurora Almendral, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2024 -
But the Ukrainian air force claimed to have shot down 76 cruise missiles and three other types of missile as well as 32 drones.
— Barry Hatton, Chicago Tribune, 28 Nov. 2024 -
The missile was once banned under the INF treaty and looks like a tomahawk cruise missile.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019 -
The ministry said seven cruise missiles were shot down, and all sea drones were destroyed.
— Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023 -
Gremlins could also be used as a low-cost cruise missile.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Jan. 2020 -
More than five thousand troops in Iraq were basically in lockdown by the time the cruise missiles hit the two bases.
— Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2020 -
Britain also led the way in being the first Western country to supply long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine.
— Garret Martin, The Conversation, 6 June 2023 -
The Houthis fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward a U.S. Navy destroyer over the weekend, but the ship shot it down.
— Tara Copp, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024 -
Two weeks ago, Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 43 cruise missiles at targets across the country.
— David L. Stern, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023 -
The cruise missiles fly low and emit little heat for interceptor missiles to lock on to.
— Jim Michaels, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2018 -
In the post, Inbar said there was a huge sail with room for several ballistic and cruise missiles.
— Greg Wehner, Fox News, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Yet a cruise missile attack on his compound in Afghanistan missed him by an hour, and two other planned attacks were called off at the last minute.
— Clay Risen, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022 -
Just hours after the strike Russia sent two warships armed with cruise missiles to the eastern Mediterranean.
— The Economist, 28 Feb. 2020 -
The President ordered fifty-nine Tomahawk cruise missiles to be fired at the base from which the gas attacks had been launched.
— Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2018 -
The Black Sea fleet at Novorossiysk also contributed to the attack with Kalibr cruise missiles.
— Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 29 Nov. 2024 -
Specifically, Europe can and should give far more middle- and long-range cruise missiles to Kyiv.
— Norbert Röttgen, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023 -
The bombers offer the option of launching long-range cruise missiles far from Iran's air defenses.
— Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 20 June 2019 -
That's still a fairly massive piece of hardware to put in a torpedo or cruise missile.
— Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018 -
The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.
— David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024 -
The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired 39 cruise missiles Wednesday.
— John Hudson, Robyn Dixon and David L. Stern, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023 -
While the Virginia-class submarines will be nuclear-powered, they will not be armed with atomic weapons and are instead expected to carry long-range cruise missiles.
— CBS News, 10 Dec. 2024 -
Streets in the capital Kyiv remained largely empty Friday morning as Ukraine’s air force warned of the threat of ballistic and cruise missiles potentially targeting parts of the country.
— Daria Tarasova Markina, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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