a medium-range missile

  • 1Medium-range ballistic missile — IRBM and MRBM missiles. A medium range ballistic missile (MRBM), is a type of ballistic missile with medium range, this last classification depending on the standards of certain organizations. Within the U.S. Department of Defense, a medium range …

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  • 2medium-range — adj. Medium range is used with these nouns: ↑missile …

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  • 3medium-range ballistic missile — A ballistic missile with a range capability from about 600 to 1,500 nautical miles …

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  • 4Missile Defense Agency — MDA Agency overview Formed 2002 Preceding agencies …

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  • 5Medium Extended Air Defense System — (MEADS) is a military project intended to replace the aging Patriot missile system through a NATO managed development. The USA, Germany and Italy are contributing toward the project. France, though initially in the project, withdrew some time ago …

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  • 6Missile Balistique — Tir d un missile Titan II depuis son silo; cet engin fut opérationnel à partir de 1962. Un missile balistique est un missile dont une partie de la trajectoire est balistique, c est à dire influencée uniquement par la gravité et la friction… …

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  • 7Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile — sophisticated air to air missile that is effective for medium distances (equipped with radar for target identification), AMRAAM …

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  • 8Missile defense — The Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. A RIM 161 Standard Missile 3 anti ballistic missile is launched from USS Shiloh, a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser …

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  • 9missile — n. 1) to fire, launch; guide a missile 2) to intercept a missile 3) an air to air; air to ground, air to surface; antiaircraft, ground to air, surface to air; antimissile; ballistic; cruise; ground to ground, surface to surface; guided;… …

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  • 10missile — /mis euhl/ or, esp. Brit., / uyl/, n. 1. an object or weapon for throwing, hurling, or shooting, as a stone, bullet, or arrow. 2. See guided missile. 3. See ballistic missile. adj. 4. capable of being thrown, hurled, or shot, as from the hand or… …

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