6 sentences with 'missile'
Example sentences and phrases with the word missile and other words derived from it.
• « As a result, Castro and Nikita Khrushchev agreed to install missile batteries in Cuba, both to deter a possible future US invasion and to redress the superiority of US missile deployments. »
• « Nikita Khrushchev was eager to establish a military presence in the Western Hemisphere, especially since the US had already installed missile batteries in its allied nations of Italy and Turkey within striking distance of the USSR. »
• « However, American spy planes detected the construction of the missile site in Cuba and missile shipments en route to Cuba, leading to the point in history when the human race came closest to complete extinction: the Cuban Missile Crisis. »
• « One of the most notorious of these programmes has been the Saad-16 Project, located in northern Iraq. It cost $250 million and included state-of-the-art facilities dedicated to missile research and development. »
• « The prime contractor for the construction of these buildings was the German company Gildemeister Projecta, and among the subcontractors, MBB (Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm) Transtechnica came first. It later emerged that MBB equipped the laboratories used in the missile programme. »
• « Many imagine command posts without equipment, just a mental frequency amplifier and a scanner searching for missile positions or influencing enemy command decisions. »