English-Dutch translations for missile

• raket
  Het tweede onderdeel is de raket en u weet dat de technologie met betrekking tot raketten snel gaat. The second part is the missile and you know that the technology on missiles is moving rapidly.
  Ten tweede, heb je een raket nodig voor de lancering, en ten derde, heb je het eigenlijke ontstekingsmechanisme van de bom nodig. Second, you need a missile to launch, and, third, you need the actual detonator of the bomb.
  Was de Verenigde Staten jaren geleden blij met de dichte nabijheid van de Sovjetraketten in Cuba? Was the United States happy years ago about the close proximity of Soviet missiles in Cuba?

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