ballistic missile English

Meaning ballistic missile meaning

What does ballistic missile mean?

— noun a missile that is guided in the first part of its flight but falls freely as it approaches target

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ballistic missile?

rocket missile ballistic round

How do I use ballistic missile in a sentence?

Everyone in Hawaii received an emergency alert that a ballistic missile was inbound.

Adapt a complicated guidance system to a huge ballistic rocket. Convert it to a water-to-air interceptor missile. It was foolish.

But now, following the North's recent nuclear tests, and given its improving ballistic-missile capabilities, that approach is no longer tenable.

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