| 单词 | tomahawk cruise missile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTomahawk cruise missile 4. Military (originally U.S.). With capital initial. A type of long-range subsonic cruise missile used by the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy. Frequently in Tomahawk cruise missile, Tomahawk missile.Officially called the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (abbreviated TLAM).The missiles were first used operationally by the United States in the Gulf War of 1991.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > guided or ballistic missile > [noun] > types of loon1947 seeker1949 Honest John1952 Nike1952 heat-seeker1956 anti-ballistic missile1957 Polaris1957 Pershing1958 SAM1958 cruise missile1959 sea-cat1959 minuteman1961 ABM1963 lance1964 Exocet1970 trident1972 MX missile1973 stinger1975 cruise1976 tomahawk1976 silo buster1977 Euromissile1979 Brilliant Pebbles1988 1976 N.Y. Times 15 Feb. 73/2 The Tomahawk, one of two cruise missile designs being tested by the Navy, was launched yesterday from a submerged torpedo tube off the San Diego coast. 1988 Financial Times 7 Dec. 9/7 The BGM-109G Tomahawk missiles, made by General Dynamics of the US, are carried by ‘transporter-erector launchers’. 1991 U.S. News & World Rep. 11 Mar. 60/1 A Tomahawk cruise missile was launched from the deck of the USS Wisconsin and streaked toward Baghdad. 1998 W. Becker Link (2000) 382 The brilliant white plume the Tomahawk left looked glorious in the afternoon sky. 2009 Internat. Security 34 124 One target was tracked in Somalia and reported killed by Tomahawk cruise missiles from an offshore U.S. naval vessel. < as lemmas |
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