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Informed by intelligence gathered by the Mossad’s agents on the ground, Israeli warplanes pounded nuclear facilities, destroyed around half of Iran’s 3,000 ballistic missiles and 80% of its launchers, and fired missiles at the bedrooms of Iranian nuclear scientists and military commanders.—Yossi Melman, ProPublica, 7 Aug. 2025 Other files contained designs for sensors used to warn U.S. warplanes of incoming heat-seeking missiles and to jam their infrared tracking.—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025 Moscow has added troops, missiles and warplanes to islands north of Japan, which the Soviet Union took toward the end of World War II, but which Japan says are sovereign Japanese territory illegally occupied now by Russia.—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 16 July 2025 As rescuers wheeled patients out of the smoldering hospital, Israeli warplanes launched their latest attack on Iran's nuclear program.—Arkansas Online, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for warplane
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