guided missile
an aerial missile, as a rocket, steered during its flight by radio signals, clockwork controls, etc.
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How to use guided missile in a sentence
“Luckily, no cars were moving along the section of the parkway a half-mile south of the Laurel-Fort Meade overpass when the fragments of the guided missile splattered down,” wrote The Post.
During the Cold War, D.C. was ringed by Nike missile sites. One had an accident. | John Kelly | October 16, 2021 | Washington PostHe helped solve the mystery of how the body can produce roughly 10 billion varieties of antibodies, Y-shaped proteins that can bind to the outer surface of a distinctly shaped invading pathogen and destroy it with the specificity of a guided missile.
Why covid-19 might finally usher in the era of health care based on a patient’s data | Katie McLean | February 24, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThe acronym TOW stands for Tube-launched, Optically-tracked, Wire command link-guided missile.
The Big Weapons that the U.S. May Be Secretly Supplying to the Syrian Rebels | Thomas Gibbons-Neff | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Pentagon launched the first guided missile last week: Nearly 800,000 civilian workers would be furloughed one day a week.
There were mobile guided missile detachments moving at top speed across state lines and along the express highway systems.
Operation Terror | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
The B-58's long pod detached itself, became a guided missile and hit the submarine square in the middle.
And Then the Town Took Off | Richard WilsonInstantly, the guided missile turned and kept coming toward them.
Islands of Space | John W Campbell"It's the nose of a message missile—dropped from a guided missile," Burl announced.
The Secret of the Ninth Planet | Donald Allen WollheimThe Pentagon was debating the development of a Mahon-modified guided missile, and a drone plane was under construction.
The Machine That Saved The World | William Fitzgerald Jenkins
British Dictionary definitions for guided missile
a missile, esp one that is rocket-propelled, having a flight path controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal preset or self-actuating homing devices: See also command guidance, field guidance, homing guidance, inertial guidance, terrestrial guidance
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