intercontinental

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China's capacity to strike Australia would grow over the next decade as "the DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missile, and potentially a conventionally armed intercontinental ballistic missile, grow in service numbers", it said.

From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026

Space, Mr. Musk pointed out, had barely improved since Apollo, while every other technology—from computing and the internet to intercontinental flight—had been transformed by newcomers and open competition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Strolling alongside her father in front of a towering intercontinental ballistic missile, she wore black trousers and a white padded jacket with her long hair tied back.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

At the end of the summer flight schedule, Deutsche Lufthansa will reduce long-haul capacity by a total of six intercontinental aircraft.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

Sputnik was proof, American policymakers assumed, that the Soviet Union had intercontinental ballistic missiles—many of them, hundreds perhaps, with the power to hurl an atomic weapon at US cities.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly