English-Danish translations for missile

• missil
  Et af disse spørgsmål vedrører netop National Missile Defense. One of these issues is precisely this question of National Missile Defence.
  Om: Tyrkiske trusler i forbindelse med opstilling af missiler på Cypern Subject: Turkish threats over installation of missiles on Cyprus
  Vi er nødt til at se på spørgsmålet om salg og afprøvning af missiler og den dermed forbundne uundgåelige eksport af missiler. We need to look at the issue of missile sales and testing, and the linked inevitable missile exports.

Definition of missile

• Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet
• A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched

Examples

• The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
• That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.

Related words

• antimissile
• Euromissile
• anti-air-missile
• missile silo
• missile shield
• missile weapon
• missile carrier
• missile base
• missile defense