How to Use ballistic missile in a Sentence

ballistic missile

noun
  • The weapon can protect ships against ballistic missiles in their final phase of flight.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
  • In total, more than 60 drones and a ballistic missile were used.
    — Robert Birsel shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But that still leaves them with thousands of-- of rockets and-- and some ballistic missiles.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • In the opening days of the war, Iran fired dozens of ballistic missiles at its neighbors.
    — Jiachuan Wu, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Is there any offer from Europe to take down these ballistic missiles?
    — CBS News, 31 May 2026
  • They are designed to detect and track ballistic missiles launched from the ground and from submarines.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Ukraine has been doubling down on efforts to make its own weapons, from millions of drones per year to cruise and ballistic missiles.
    — Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The midcourse is one of the three phases of ballistic missile flight, along with the boost phase and the terminal phase.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The moves come as punishment for the country’s recent test launch of a ballistic missile.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 21 June 2021
  • To this point, only small warheads would fit on a ballistic missile, so the simpler gun-type device would not work.
    — Brendan Rascius july 8, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
  • Obama planned to build a new class of submarines to replace Ohio-class ballistic missile subs.
    — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Iran has fired dozens of ballistic missiles at Israel, setting off air raid sirens across the country for days.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Indeed, there hasn't been a long-range ballistic missile launch since 2017.
    — Aaron David Miller, CNN, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Such projectiles can fly at more than five times the speed of sound – slower than a ballistic missile, but are harder to track and stop.
    — Teny Sahakian, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • In March, Kim ordered his country’s first short-range ballistic missile tests in a year.
    — Fox News, 27 May 2021
  • Since May the North has tried out three new, solid-fuel, short-range ballistic missiles.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • The flight path suggests North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile.
    — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • That included ballistic missiles, in addition to low-cost mines and drones.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Israel is still the target of rockets from Gaza and ballistic missiles from as far away as Yemen.
    — Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The country has been developing a number of short-range ballistic missiles for many years.
    — Iain Boyd, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2026
  • When ballistic missiles and one-way drones fly in large salvos, inventory matters; the more the better.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2026
  • That started up as popguns on sticks and ended with ballistic missiles that could reach any spot on Earth in minutes.
    — New Atlas, 17 Jan. 2026
  • This effort also helped spur Iran's ballistic missile and drone program.
    — Scott Neuman, NPR, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Iran’s ballistic missile sites, navy headquarters and warships were attacked as well.
    — Cara Anna, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • These are underground complexes used to store and launch ballistic missiles.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Russia has used its long-range ballistic missiles to damage Ukraine’s power grid and hammer cities.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2026
  • The site is used to build sensors for some cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as satellite components, Ukraine said.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • The Defense Ministry said the market was hit by a ballistic missile.
    — Samya Kullab, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Two of the most important types are attack submarines and ballistic missile submarines.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
  • On my second day, North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan.
    — David Qu, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022

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