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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STANDOFF MISSILE

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Standoff missile is a noun.
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WHAT DOES STANDOFF MISSILE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Standoff (missile)

Standoff missiles are missiles or bombs which may be launched at a distance sufficient to allow attacking personnel to evade defensive fire from the target area. Typically, they are used against land- and sea-based targets in an offensive operation. The name is derived from their ability to engage the target while standing off outside the range at which the defenders are likely to engage the attacker. Typical stand-off weapons include cruise missiles, glide bombs and short-range ballistic missiles.

Definition of standoff missile in the English dictionary

The definition of standoff missile in the dictionary is a missile capable of striking a distant target after launch by an aircraft outside the range of missile defences.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STANDOFF MISSILE

standing order
standing ovation
standing rigging
standing room
standing start
standing stone
standing water
standing wave
standish
standoff
standoffish
standoffishly
standoffishness
standout
standover
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standpat
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WORDS THAT END LIKE STANDOFF MISSILE

air-to-air missile
air-to-ground missile
air-to-sea missile
anti-aircraft missile
antiballistic missile
antimissile
ballistic missile
circumscissile
cruise missile
fissile
guided missile
intercontinental ballistic missile
intermediate range ballistic missile
intermediate-range ballistic missile
medium-range ballistic missile
medium range missile
missile
scissile
sessile
subsessile
tensile

Synonyms and antonyms of standoff missile in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «standoff missile» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STANDOFF MISSILE

Find out the translation of standoff missile to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of standoff missile from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «standoff missile» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

防区外导弹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enfrentamiento de misiles
570 millions of speakers

English

standoff missile
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गतिरोध मिसाइल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المواجهة الصاروخية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

противостояние ракета
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

míssil impasse
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অচল ক্ষেপণাস্ত্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

impasse missile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Peluru berpandu standoff
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pattsituation Raketen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スタンドオフミサイル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

스탠드 오프 미사일
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rudal standoff
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tên lửa bế tắc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிலைப்பாடு ஏவுகணை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्पीडफ मिसाइल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Karşı füze
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

standoff missile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

patowa przeciwrakietowej
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

протистояння ракета
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

standoff rachetă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιπαράθεση πυραύλων
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nekslag raket
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

distansdonet missil
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

standoff rakett
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of standoff missile

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STANDOFF MISSILE»

The term «standoff missile» is used very little and occupies the 183.183 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STANDOFF MISSILE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about standoff missile

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STANDOFF MISSILE»

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Time Critical Conventional Strike from Strategic Standoff: ...
... Surveillance and Reconnaissance IT Information Technology JASSM Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile JASSM-ER Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile JASSM-XR Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile JSOTF Joint Special Operations Task ...
‎2009
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Defense acquisitions assessments of major weapon programs : ...
Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) JASSM is a joint Air Force and Navy missile system designed to attack surface targets outside of the range of area defenses. JASSM will be delivered by a variety of aircraft including the F-16 C/D, ...
United States, Government Accountability Office
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Air Force Bombers: Options to Retire Or Restructure the ...
Cruise missiles include the Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile, Harpoon, and the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile. Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile The Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile is the only long-range ...
DIANE Publishing Company, 1996
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Defense Acquisitions: DoD Needs to Reassess Joint Cruise ...
CARD Cost Analysis Requirements Document CAIG Cost Analysis Improvement Group DOD Department of Defense JASSM Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile JASSM-ER Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile Extended Range OSD Office of ...
Michael J. Sullivan
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Best Practices: Increased Focus on Requirements and ...
Appendix II: Quality Problems for 11 DOD Weapon Systems Figure 7: Joint Air-to- Surface Standoff Missile DOD sponsor: Air Force Prime contractor: Lockheed Martin Program start: 1998 Costs in millions of dollars Development estimate ...
Michael Sullivan, 2008
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Cruise Missile Proliferation in the 1990s
France is producing a TERCOM for its Apache standoff missile with accuracies of 20 meters. It has been reported that Sweden is building a similar system for its proposed Autonomous Standoff Missile (ASOM) glide bomb. And it is generally ...
W. Seth Carus, 1992
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Shaking the Heavens and Splitting the Earth: Chinese Air ...
The stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile–Extended Range (JASSM-ER) launched from B-1s might be able to play this role. The JASSM-ER will have a range of more than 500 nm, and each B-1 can carry 24 JASSMs. (The USAF has a ...
‎2011
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Command of the Seas
The engineers at China Lake took a laser-guided thousand-pound bomb and stuck a missile motor on the back, giving the fleet a seven-mile standoff missile with a huge thousand-pound payload and a ten- foot accuracy. It cost only $25,000 ...
John F. Lehman, 2001
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The Precision Revolution: GPS and the Future of Aerial Warfare
The joint air-to- surface standoff missile (JASSM) program plans to produce a precision cruise missile designed for launch from outside area defenses to kill a variety of targets. The missile will be designed to fly to the target area autonomously ...
Michael Russell Rip, James M. Hasik, 2002
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Crisis Stability and Long-Range Strike: A Comparative ...
However, they would not contribute much to the potency of U.S. deterrent threats, at least not directly.2 While standoff weapons, such as the AGM-158A Joint Air-to- Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), could hold important fixed targets at risk, ...
Forrest E. Morgan, 2013

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STANDOFF MISSILE»

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Navy Awards Raytheon $180M for Joint Standoff Missile Production
Raytheon logo Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $180.4 million contract to build Unitary Joint Standoff Weapon missiles and related equipment and ... «GovConWire, Jul 15»
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Air Force to Integrate New EA Weapon with Lockheed Standoff Missile
JASSM-Joint-Air-to-Surface-Standoff-Missile The U.S. Air Force wants a Lockheed Martin-built missile system to host a new microwave weapon technology ... «ExecutiveBiz, May 15»
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Air Force confirms work on terrifying new weapon
Now, the US Air Force claims it has advanced the technology, and says it can deploy it using the stealthy Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
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Poland Eyes Cruise Missiles for Subs
To date, only the US and UK has the missiles. ... has intensified Poland's efforts to acquire AGM-158 joint air-to-surface standoff missiles (JASSMs) for its fleet of ... «DefenseNews.com, Mar 15»
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Lockheed Martin jump starts Alabama expansion, adding 240 jobs
An artist's sketch of the Long-Range Strike Systems cruise missile annex ... in U.S. and international orders for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile and the ... «Made In Alabama, Feb 15»
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Pakistan Tests Cruise Missile
It is generally comparable to the Anglo/French Storm Shadow or US AGM-158 joint air-to-surface standoff missile, but exact specifications are not available. «DefenseNews.com, Feb 15»
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Poland to Buy Lockheed Standoff Missiles for F-16 Fleet
JASSM Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile The government of Poland has signed a contract to purchase Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) Joint Air-to-Surface ... «GovConWire, Dec 14»
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Roketsan, Lockheed partner new F-35 air-to-surface standoff missile
Roketsan has signed a teaming agreement with Lockheed Martin to manufacture a new generation air-to-surface standoff cruise missile for use on the F-35 ... «Airforce Technology, Oct 14»
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Lockheed's New Missiles Contracts Worth $449 Million
The Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) is a standoff cruise missile armed with a dual-mode penetrator and blast-fragmentation warhead. «American Machinist, Jan 14»

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