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mis·sile de·fense sys·tem

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  1. missile defense system, missile defence systemnoun

    naval weaponry providing a defense system

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  1. missile defense system

    A missile defense system is a strategic military structure that uses ground-based or satellite-guided weapons technologies to detect, track, intercept, and destroy incoming enemy missiles, particularly long-range ballistic missiles. This system may include radar for early detection of the threat, interceptors to destroy the missile, and command and control systems to coordinate detection and counteraction procedures. Its primary aim is to protect a nation or region from potential missile attacks.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of missile defense system in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of missile defense system in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of missile defense system in a Sentence

  1. Nozomu Yoshitomi:

    There is a possibility that if we do not acquire a more sophisticated ballistic missile defense system, it will become impossible for both the United States and Japan to respond.

  2. Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo:

    There is a defense umbrella contained within South Korea, there is a defense umbrella for Japan, there are naval assets between Korea, Japan and Guam, and there is a missile defense system of Guam that make up a multi-level defensive umbrella.

  3. Antoni Macierewicz:

    Indeed, the recent talks between Raytheon (and Poland) are very, very promising and one may say that a breakthrough has taken place, raytheon has agreed to our minimal condition aimed at securing that at least 50 percent of the money which is to be spent of the Patriot system (Raytheon's missile defense system) would be spent on works done by Polish plants.

  4. Ritchie Torres:

    A missile defense system (i.e. Iron Dome) defends civilians from missiles. Hence the name. Only in a morally inverted universe would this be considered a 'controversy,'.

  5. Ben Carson:

    We need to reestablish ourselves in that area, we need to give Ukraine offensive weapons. We need to reestablish a missile defense system in the eastern bloc of countries so that we oppose him. Let's keep him on the run, we need to recognize that, you know, his fuel is oil. And we need to do everything we can to develop our energy resources at an economical rate so that we keep the oil prices down, which keeps him in his little box.


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  • telum defensionem ratioLatin

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