"missile" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Israel says the Palestinians in Rafah are trying to import more powerful weapons than before, like shoulder-held missiles that could bring down a plane, and Katyusha rockets that could reach deep into Israel.
- Hezbollah fighters use tunnels to quickly emerge from the ground, fire a shoulder-held antitank missile, and then disappear again, much the way Chechen rebels used the sewer system of Grozny to attack Russian armored columns.
- As at other airports, there was serious worry about such things as the threat of a terrorist climbing the chain-link fence to lurk in the woods and bring down a plane with a shoulder-held antiaircraft missile.
- The shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles are of the same type used by Afghan guerrillas to shoot down Soviet aircraft.
- American aid to the guerrillas has in the past included automatic weapons, ammunition and shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles, like Stingers.
- Tons of weaponry, including thousands of shoulder-held surface-to-air missiles, has been stolen from Gaddafi's abandoned depots since his regime was overthrown by rebel forces in August.
- And within a month Chadians expect to receive Stinger missiles -the advanced, shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles Afghan guerrillas have used to shoot down Soviet aircraft.
- Its planes are vulnerable to shoulder-held missiles and other relatively simple air defense systems.
- Later, a Mi-17 helicopter was shot down by a shoulder-held missile with the loss of all its crew.
- In March 2004, Israeli police arrested four suspected contract killers from Belarus who had been found with weapons, including explosives and shoulder-held missiles, at their hideout.
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