"balloon" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Tethered to the warhead were two seven-foot decoy balloons, which the Eris avoided.
- Dormant machines would have flickered to life when first light struck the decoy balloons, electric circuits closing.
- All the decoy balloons were gone-no surprise there.
- The test included three decoy balloons.
- But when it actually performed the tests last October and this January, each flight had but one decoy balloon.
- But it later acknowledged that the kill vehicle had initially drifted off course and picked out a decoy balloon rather than the warhead.
- But analysis showed that the kill vehicle had drifted off course and had initially homed in on a decoy balloon instead of the warhead.
- It suffered initial navigational mistakes and found the target only after luckily homing in on a nearby decoy balloon.
- To date, targets in the interception tests have consisted of a single mock warhead and a single decoy balloon.
- By contrast, the spherical decoy balloons have more uniform signatures.
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