The missile roared off the launching pad and soared to about 10,000 feet before its engines failed.

Men dived desperately from the second jeep into a drainage ditch, and a moment later the jeep was blown to pieces as another missile roared in from above and struck it.

Nine hundred and sixty missiles roared in upon each of them, and Tennard's ships were too far apart to duplicate Tourville's maneuver and build a wall in space with their wedges.

Tufayli and Badi scanned the skies as missiles ripple-fired into the sky and defensive guns roared, but no aircraft could be seen--wait, there!

Then, with a tremendous blast of fur, the Trident D-5/HI sea-launched ballistic missile's solid-propellant motor ignited, and the missile and its ten inert warheads roared into space.

The missiles should have roared and flown to their targets.

The first missile roared away.

The SM-2 Tactical Aegis LEAP (lightweight exoatmospheric projectile) missile roared from the vertical launcher in front of the ship's bridge in a blaze of fire.

Two seconds later a second missile roared after the first.

With a press of the button, the missile roared out of the tube, racing in an arc of fire directly toward the faint vision of the other ship.