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cruise missile
noun as in long-range guided missile
Example Sentences
When the United States and its cruise missiles arrived, major construction started at the base.
North Korea has built cruise missiles before, but none with the range of the weapons in their weekend test.
These troops are joined by a steady increase in warplanes, attack helicopters, tanks, cruise missiles and all the other matériel necessary for a conventional invasion.
Its 24 heavyweight weapons, naval cruise missiles, F21 torpedoes, and anti-ship missiles, would be launched from both torpedo tubes on the sides and at the rear of the vessel.
Ships bells, submarine periscopes, cruise missiles and huge Civil War guns are among them.
The decision to rebuild the nuclear triad includes a new long-range cruise missile.
He also warned that cruise missile strikes on Hezbollah forces in Syria would invite a response.
And how much better will Americans feel if a cruise missile hits an apartment building?
The U.S. campaign in Yemen has used conventional weaponry on occasion: sorties by Harriers and even some cruise-missile strikes.
Bin Laden benefited enormously from surviving the cruise missile attack that targeted him in 1998.
The cruise missile production which will begin next year will modernize our strategic air deterrent.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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