7 sentences with 'missiles'
Example sentences and phrases with the word missiles and other words derived from it.
• « Nikita Khrushchev claimed that the USSR had also developed missiles that could reach targets on the other side of the world, and therefore the West feared that the Soviets could just as easily detonate a nuclear weapon in the United States as in Europe. »
• « When the US government learned of the Soviet missiles, serious consideration was given to launching a full-scale assault on Cuba, something that could have led directly to nuclear war. »
• « When Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Germany's foreign minister, visited Israel in January 1990 during the Persian Gulf War, he was supplied with information about German-made components found in Scud missiles that had fallen on Tel Aviv and Haifa. The Iraqi Scuds, he was told, might not have reached Israel without the assistance of German experts. »
• « It was also Germans who helped Iraq the most in the development of larger and more effective missiles. »
• « In the mid-1980s, the company was involved in the production of Iraqi anti-tank missiles and the 'Roland' air defence system, which was later used in the Persian Gulf War. »
• « Ramjets have been used for decades in the most powerful missiles and have a speed ranging from Mach 1 to Mach 6, where they overheat and become too inefficient. This is where scramjet propulsion comes in. The X-30 will have three to five of the latter "ram-scram" modules. »