S: (n) Minuteman (a strategic weapon system using a guided missile of intercontinental range; missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads and dispersed in hardened silos)
S: (n) guided missile (a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices)
S: (n) antiballistic missile, ABM (a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles) "the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks placed limits on the deployment of ABMs"
S: (n) Exocet (a guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships)
S: (n) space probe (a rocket-propelled guided missile that can escape the earth's atmosphere; makes observations of the solar system that cannot be made by terrestrial observation)
S: (n) MANPAD (a man-portable surface-to-air missile)
S: (n) Stinger (a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder)
S: (n) heat-seeking missile (a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine))
S: (n) brilliant pebble (a code name for a small computerized heat-seeking missile that was supposed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles)
S: (n) Stinger (a portable low altitude surface-to-air missile system using infrared guidance and an impact fuse; fired from the shoulder)
S: (n) multistage rocket, step rocket (a rocket having two or more rocket engines (each with its own fuel) that are fired in succession and jettisoned when the fuel is exhausted)
S: (n) device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose) "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"
S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
S: (n) heat-seeking missile (a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine))
S: (n) device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose) "the device is small enough to wear on your wrist"; "a device intended to conserve water"