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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