air-launched cruise missile
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air-launched cruise missile — /air lawncht , lahncht /, Mil. a winged, jet powered missile designed to be launched from an aircraft and to fly toward the target at low altitude on automatic guidance, with a range of almost 2500 mi. (4023 km). Abbr.: ALCM, A.L.C.M … Useful english dictionary
Ground Launched Cruise Missile — Infobox Weapon is missile=yes name=BGM 109G Gryphon (GLCM)1 caption= origin= type=long range, all weather, subsonic tactical/strategic cruise missile used by= manufacturer=General Dynamics unit cost=$1.3 mil propellant= production date=… … Wikipedia
Air-to-surface missile — An air to surface missile (also, air to ground missile, AGM, ASM or ATGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft (bombers, attack aircraft, fighter aircraft or other kinds) and strike ground targets on land, at sea, or both.… … Wikipedia
Cruise missile — United States Tomahawk cruise missile A modern Tau … Wikipedia
Cruise Missile — Boeing AGM 86A Marschflugkörper der US Air Force BGM 109 Tomahawk der US Navy Ein Marschflugkörper od … Deutsch Wikipedia
cruise missile — a winged guided missile designed to deliver a conventional or nuclear warhead by flying at low altitudes to avoid detection by radar. * * * Type of low flying strategic guided missile developed by the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1960s and… … Universalium
AGM-86 Cruise Missile — Boeing AGM 86A ALCM Boeing AGM 86B ALCM … Deutsch Wikipedia
Boeing AGM-86 Cruise Missile — Boeing AGM 86A ALCM Boeing AGM 86B ALCM Die Boeing AGM 86 ALCM (Air Launched Cruise Missile), ist ein von B 52 Bombern der US Luftwaffe aus startbarer … Deutsch Wikipedia
Submarine-launched ballistic missile — A Trident II D5 nuclear missile. It is capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads up to 8,000 km. They are carried by 14 US Navy Ohio class submarines and 4 Royal Navy Vanguard class submarines A submarine launched ballistic missile… … Wikipedia
Cruise missile strikes on Iraq (1996) — Operation Desert Strike Part of the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War and Iraqi no fly zones … Wikipedia
