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guided missile
noun
: a missile whose course may be altered during flight (as by a target-seeking radar device)
Examples of guided missile in a Sentence
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Hellfires are air-to-ground precision guided missiles that can be fired from helicopters and other aircraft.
—Allie Raffa, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2024
In September 2022, the U.S. Coast Guard reported the crew of the cutter Kimball, during a routine patrol in the Bering Sea, encountered a People's Republic of China guided missile cruiser off Alaska’s Kiska Island.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2023
With its sophisticated radar system and Phoenix guided missiles, the F-14 could bring down a target from 100 miles away.
—Stephen Witt, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
One major increase has been in submarines, primarily in the new Borei class missile submarines and Yasen class guided missile submarines.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2021
And like guided missiles, each type has evolved to seek and destroy a specific type of bacteria.
—Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 26 May 2020
The attacks used guided missiles and in this instance, Iran appeared to have intentionally aimed the strikes away from Americans on the base, the official said.
—Nick Wadhams, Bloomberg.com, 8 Jan. 2020
Meanwhile, the Navy version will likely equip Arleigh Burke-class guided missile cruisers, Ticonderoga-class destroyers, and possibly the new Zumwalt class stealth destroyers.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2020
Viewers around the world watched as laser guided missiles, launched from US war machines, found and devastated their targets.
—Eli Jelly-Schapiro, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1945, in the meaning defined above
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“Guided missile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guided%20missile. Accessed 31 May. 2024.
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guided missile
noun
: a missile whose course may be changed during flight
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