NOUN
- a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine)
How To Use heat-seeking missile In A Sentence
- Now the David of this story has armed himself not with a slingshot, but a heat-seeking missile.
- It launches heat-seeking missiles which go straight for a plane's engines, chasing them at twice the speed of sound.
- These weapons provide Air Force Special Operations Command aircrews with defensive countermeasures against heat-seeking missiles or anti-aircraft weapons.
- They have infrared countermeasure devices that confuse heat-seeking missiles.
- It is also not a shoulder-fired heat-seeking missile.
- Army helicopters, containing the latest countermeasures - such as flares to lure away heat-seeking missiles - will be used to ferry dignitaries and even police officers around.
- Heat-seeking missiles, which the United States provided to the anti-Soviet Afghan fighters known as mujaheddin in the 1980s, helped inflict heavy losses on the Soviet Union until it withdrew its forces from Afghanistan in 1989. Leaked files lay bare war in Afghanistan
- For example, the U.S. Department of Defense has a variety of systems that use infrared sensors, such as heat-seeking missiles, but in order for the sensors to work they must be cooled to freezing temperatures, which is expensive.
- You could say that there was intentionality in a heat-seeking missile but it's at the same level as a cockroach running away from light.
- In this case, though, it appeared it gave the crew almost no time to react, to dispense flares, or take other countermeasures that might have been able to evade these heat-seeking missiles.
