How to Use guided missile in a Sentence

guided missile

noun
  • One of China’s most advanced guided missile destroyers, the Type 052D Taiyuan, had planned to take part in the review.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
  • That’s enough to buy seven Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers at current prices.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Dec. 2018
  • The two collisions killed a total of 17 Navy sailors and placed two Japan-based guided missile destroyers temporarily out of action.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Still, the technology reveals a promising new army of drug carriers—like guided missiles for cancer.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 17 May 2018
  • If bacteriocins are guided missiles, phages are literally germ warfare: pathogens that evolved to kill other pathogens.
    NBC News, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Subsonic guided missiles like cruise missiles are relatively easy to shoot down.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2019
  • During his time at Raytheon, Ryan helped design the Sparrow and Hawk guided missile systems, a medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile, and a surface-to-air missile, respectively.
    Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019
  • The defense department used the property for the operation of Ajax and Nike Hercules surface-to-air guided missile firing and control until the site was deactivated in 1976.
    Amy Lavalley, Post-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Marine battalions will lose four older TOW heavy anti-tank guided missiles, but add four newer, smaller, more portable Javelin missiles.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 May 2018
  • The new turret includes an elevated missile launcher capable of launching two Spike MR anti-tank guided missiles, giving Namer the ability to destroy tanks.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2018
  • Jeffrey Bennett, commander of guided missile destroyers in the region, were the latest leaders removed since the Navy launched an investigation last month into the deadly accidents.
    W.j. Hennigan, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • This capability would prove incredibly useful for any long-distance human endeavor, including guiding missiles to a target on another continent, as the Cold War would soon demand.
    Greg Miller, Smithsonian, 23 Oct. 2019

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