** Missiles and Pulse systems ;

Other kinds of offensive weapons include Pulse Torpedoes, Needle Beams ( which can target a specific system on an enemy ship and disable it ), Submunition Packs, Missiles, Minelayers and " mega-damage " weapons, such as the Nova Cannon and Wave Gun.

Missiles are powered by an engine, generally either a type of rocket or jet engine.

Missiles and guided bombs generally use similar types of guidance system, the difference between the two being that missiles are powered by an onboard engine, whereas guided bombs rely on the speed and height of the launch aircraft for propulsion.

* The Nazi occupation of Poland and the Allied bombing of Peenemünde are depicted in the British feature film Battle of the V-1 ( 1958 ) ( called Missiles From Hell in the United States and some other countries ), which starred the actor Michael Rennie.

Missiles, on the other hand, could progressively tune their approach while they were flying toward the target, and their proximity fuses meant they only needed to get " close enough ".

Missiles like the Raytheon AIM-7 Sparrow and Vympel R-27 ( NATO designation AA-10 ' Alamo ') home in on the reflected radiation, much as a laser-guided bomb homes in on the reflected laser radiation.

The game also has the standard bomb button, which causes Tomahawk Missiles to fly up the screen doing major damage to any enemies they hit.

He was also played by James Olson in the 1974, made for TV film, The Missiles of October.

The 1st Experimental Guided Missiles Group was activated at Eglin Field, Florida, on 6 February 1946, operating out of Auxiliary Field 3.

In the early 1970s SAC began to consolidate it's B-52 assets as the age of the manned bomber was reduced with the advent of Intercontinental Strategic Ballistic Missiles.

Late in 1973 a second Alert Parking Ramp (" Christmas Tree ") was added across the runway from the original facility, the 416th Bombardment Wing from Griffiss AFB, NY maintained two B-52G ’ s with AGM-28B Hound Dog Missiles and two KC-135A aircraft along with two KC-135 Aircraft from the 380th Bombardment Wing at Plattsburgh AFB, NY.

The first American model rocket company was Model Missiles Incorporated ( MMI ), in Denver, Colorado, opened by Stine and others.

Another designation used was PLARB which translates as " Nuclear Submarine with Ballistic Missiles ".

In early 1971, MCI and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company created a joint venture named MCI Lockheed Satellite Corp., which was the first company to request FCC authorization as a Specialized Common Carrier using satellite-based communications.

McCoy also worked with Nasty Suicide under the moniker " The Suicide Twins " and released the album Silver Missiles And Nightingales ( which was the original working tile for Two Steps from the Move ) in 1986, which also featured a guest appearance by René Berg.

It was formed by a merger of French Aérospatiale-Matra Missiles ( of EADS ), Italian Alenia Marconi Systems ( of Finmeccanica ) and British Matra BAe Dynamics ( of BAE Systems ) in December 2001.

Matra BAe Dynamics represented half of Matra Hautes Technologies ' missile business, the other half was Matra Missiles which became Aérospatiale-Matra Missiles ( AMM ).

" The Q-system was presented at the first Technical Symposium on Ballistic Missiles held at the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation in Los Angeles on June 21 and 22, 1956.

Although the United States was increasingly frustrated and concerned at this impasse it did not do lasting damage to US-British relations as evidenced by the American willingness to sell Cruise Missiles to the United Kingdom.

His book, Rockets, Missiles, and Space Travel, ( 1957 ) was cited in the Space Handbook: Astronautics and its Applications, a staff report of the Select Committee on Astronautics and Space Exploration of the U. S. House of Representatives, which provided non-technical information about spaceflight to U. S. policy makers.

George Ball was portrayed by John Randolph in the 1974, made for TV film, The Missiles of October, by James Karen in the 2000 movie Thirteen Days and by Bruce McGill in the 2002 TV film Path to War.

The Snark missile was developed to present a nuclear deterrent to the Soviet Union and other potential enemies at a time when Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles ( ICBMs ) were still in development.

The follow-up Missiles was released in the United Kingdom on October 20 and in North America on October 21, 2008.

The God Phoenix was armed with an unspecified but large ( roughly 30 +) number of Bird Missiles that were fired from a rack system mounted atop the center section.

After the original God Phoenix was destroyed by an octopus-based mecha, an improved version carried a pair of Super Bird Missiles in twin drop-down pods from the bottom center section, which could be fitted with either a warhead for attack or a manned capsule to carry a passenger for a boarding operation when it successfully impacted into an enemy vessel.

Coats served as Vice President of Avionics and Communications Operations for Loral Space Information Systems, from 1996-1998 he was Vice President of Civil Space Programs for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space in Sunnyvale, California, and from 1998-2005 he was Vice President of Advanced Space Transportation for Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver, Colorado.

The working title for the next record was Silver Missiles and Nightingalesand the album was slated for February 16, 1984 release.

After touring in July in England, Hanoi Rocks ' new album finally came out, now titled Two Steps From The Move, which was changed from Silver Missiles and Nightingales at the last minute.

* Missiles are dropped from an airplane for the first time, when United States Army Lieutenant Paul W. Beck drops sandbags simulating bombs over Los Angeles, California.

The squadron began almost immediately to upgrade yet again to the Vulcan B2, taking delivery of the first on 1 September 1961, although its high-level strategic bombing role remained unchanged until the advent of effective Soviet Surface-to-Air Missiles forced Bomber Command to re-assign V-bombers from high-altitude operations to low-level penetration operations in March 1963, when the squadron's Vulcans adopted a mission profile that included a ' pop-up ' manoeuvre from 500 – 1, 000 ft to above 12, 000 ft for safe release of Blue Steel.

Lockheed Missiles & Space was contracted to produce a deep diving rescue submarine, the first of which was launched in 1970.

Firestone was given a total of US $ 6, 888, 796 for the first 200 Missiles.

The first of two decades of reorganizations began in 1972 with the creation of Vought Systems by the merging of the Vought Missiles and Space and Aeronautics divisions.

The first General Dynamics BGM-109 Tomahawk Ground-Launched Cruise Missiles to arrive in Europe went to the 501st Tactical Missile Wing ( TMW ) at RAF Greenham Common, England.

It is the second docudrama made about the crisis, the first being 1974's The Missiles of October, which was based on Kennedy's book.

The Missile Crisis was first publicly dramatized in the 1974 made-for-television play The Missiles of October.

In 1959, Heim completed his first publication in the obscure German journal Zeitschrift für Flugkörper ( Magazine for Missiles ).

The preface by Helmut Goeckel to Heim ’ s first paper in the series of four articles published by Magazine for Missiles indicated various aerospace and ordnance companies had made several attempts to kidnap him.

The Polaris missile was the first major new program for both locations, followed later by satellite programs, thus the name change to Lockheed Missiles and Space Division.

Missiles produced at Yuzhmash included the first nuclear armed Soviet rocket R-5M ( SS-3 ' Shyster '), the R-12 Dvina ( SS-4 ' Sandal '), the R-14 Chusovaya ( SS-5 ' Skean '), the first Soviet ICBM R-16 ( SS-7 ' Saddler '), the R-36 ( SS-9 ' Scarp '), the MR-UR-100 Sotka ( SS-17 ' Spanker '), and the R-36M ( SS-18 ' Satan ').

After the Martin firing, he contacted Carlisle and the two of them formed Model Missiles Inc., the first manufacturer of model rockets and their engines.

Stine saw the potential in Carlisle's invention as a safe hobby, and together they formed the first model rocket company, Model Missiles, Inc., in Denver, Colorado.

In 1957, G. Harry Stine and Orville Carlisle founded the first model rocket company, Model Missiles Incorporated, in Denver, Colorado.

In early 1971, MCI and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company created a joint venture named MCI Lockheed Satellite Corp. which was the first company to request FCC authorization as a Specialized Common Carrier using satellite based communications.