missile age造句

• In early 1956, Keesler entered the missile age by opening a ground support training program for the Atlas missile.
• The decisions were influenced by two major factors : the finances of the country and the coming of the missile age.
• While working at the RAND Corporation, Brodie wrote " Strategy in the Missile Age " ( 1959 ) which outlined the framework of deterrence.
• With the arrival of the missile age, SAC had to be ready to launch its armada of nuclear bombers within 15 minutes for a retaliatory strike.
• Although the missile age meant that Gimlet did not enter operational service, the production processes developed for the rocket would be modified and used in the production of the AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile.
• "There has always been a longing to escape the horrors of the missile age, " says Edward Linenthal, professor at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh and author of a critical book about the system called " Symbolic Defense ."
• The USAF had deemphasized ACM since most air combat doctrine since the late 1950s centered on delivering nuclear weapons over Europe or firing missiles at beyond-visual-range ( BVR ) at bombers, not daylight dogfighting which was thought to be obsolete in the missile age.
• But with rogue nations entering the missile age, the Clinton administration sees some justification in building a defense that would protect the United States from just one or two incoming warheads _ a far simpler land-or sea-based system than the space-based idea of the Reagan era.
• He laid out his analysis in the 1954 RAND memorandum  A Revised Development Program for Ballistic Missiles of Intercontinental Range .  This document outlined a program that would provide the United States with a new level of strategic power, and is widely regarded as the most important document of the missile age.
• These ships, which came to be called " torpedo boat destroyers " and later simply " destroyers, " became larger and took on more roles, making torpedo attacks as well as defending against them, and eventually defending against submarines and aircraft . The destroyer eventually became the predominant type of surface warship in the guided missile age.
• Flying over the canal in a helicopter with Nicolas Ardito Barletta, the director of the Inter-Oceanic Regional Authority, the Panamanian government agency that oversees the former Panama Canal Zone, and looking down on the network of dams and locks that hold back the man-made Gatun and Madden Lakes, the waterway's vulnerability in the missile age is evident.