Antonyms for cruise missilecruise mis·sile

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Princeton's WordNet

1. cruise missilenoun

   an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb

How to use cruise missile in a sentence?

1. Hans Kristensen:

   A low-yield The Trident D5s warhead would be harder to defend against than a warhead delivered by a bomber or a cruise missile.

2. Amir Hatami:

   With a range of more than 1,300 km ... this cruise missile needs a very short time for its preparedness and can fly at a low altitude.

3. Steven Horrell:

   A ship in the Black Sea with the Kalibr land attack cruise missile could reach Berlin, if they viewed one of the European capitals as being a weakness in NATO, they could do that sort of escalation, non-nuclear, but they could strike outside the immediate theater of conflict and start hitting native targets.

4. Frank Welton:

   The B-1 is able to carry the LRASM( Long Range Anti-Surface Cruise Missile), giving it an advanced stand-off, counter-ship capability.

5. Jeffrey Lewis:

   The Russianleader claimed the nuclear-powered cruise missilehad an unlimited range, flew at a high speed and was capable of maneuverability that would allowit topierce any missile defense. One of the worlds most respected missile experts, Director of East Asia Nonproliferation Program Jeffrey Lewis, said Tuesday the U.S. tried to develop a similarly powered cruise missile in the 1950s and 60s but abandoned the project because it didnt make sense to put a nuclear reactor inside a missile. It was a technological nightmare and an ecological hazard, Jeffrey Lewis told Fox News. This is not a technology that I think makes a lot of sense for the United States. For whatever reason, the Russians have a different sense, maybe because they treat environmentalists differently than we do in the United States.

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