In response to the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of U. S. embassies in East Africa that killed a dozen Americans and hundreds of Africans, Clinton ordered cruise missile strikes on terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan.

The objective is reportedly to protect another parts of US National Missile Defense from long-range missile strikes from Iran and North Korea, but Czech PM Mirek Topolánek said the main reason is to avoid Russian influence and strengthen ties to US.

The fake town was thereby created in Gumm's mental image to accommodate his dementia so that he would continue predicting missile strikes in the guise of submitting entries to a harmless newspaper contest and without the ethical qualms involved with being on the " wrong " side of a civil war.

No fixed land based ballistic missile system could be credibly installed in the British Isles ; they were well within the range of Soviet air strikes.

In his 1991 State of the Union Address George H. W. Bush shifted the focus of SDI from defense of North America against large scale strikes to a system focusing on theater missile defense called Global Protection Against Limited Strikes ( GPALS ).

Western charges of Iraqi resistance to UN access to suspected weapons were the pretext for crises between 1997 and 1998, culminating in intensive U. S. and British missile strikes on Iraq, 16 – 19 December 1998.

Armour systems have continued in development alongside ATGMs, and the most recent generations of armor are specifically tested to be effective against ATGM strikes, either by ' tricking ' the missile into not detonating against the armor itself ( such as in Slat Armour ) or using some form of reactive armor to ' attack ' the missile upon impact, disrupting shaped charge that makes the warhead effective.

During the 1980 – 88 Iran – Iraq War, Tehran was the target of repeated Scud missile attacks and air strikes.

During Iraqi missile strikes on Israel during the 1991 Gulf War, Kol Israel relayed its domestic service on its shortwave service.

Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division and U. S. Special Operations ( Task Force 20 ) watch as a TOW missile strikes the side of a house occupied by Uday and Qusay Hussein in Mosul, on 22 July 2003

The air strikes continued unabated however, and cruise missile barrages launched by naval vessels added to the bombs dropped by the planes.

A few months earlier, similar criticism was levelled during Operation Infinite Reach, wherein missile strikes were ordered against suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan, on August 20.

* Example: US President Bill Clinton's cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan and Sudan in August 1998 has been suggested as a means to distract attention from the Monica Lewinsky affair.

As the missile passes its target some of the energy strikes the target and is reflected back to the missile where detectors sense it and detonate the warhead.

After the U. S. and U. S. S. R. finally restore the link, Colossus successfully intercepts the Soviet missile before it strikes.

On August 20, 1998, the factory was destroyed in cruise missile strikes launched by the United States military allegedly retaliation for the August 7 truck bomb attacks on its embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya ( see 1998 U. S. embassy bombings ).

The announced objective was to protect most of Europe from long-range missile strikes from Iran.

In one such engagement, an Israeli tank column was stopped for some hours by SyAAF Gazelle missile strikes while approaching Ein Zehalta.

Every major power on the planet goes on missile alert, ordering retaliatory strikes as soon as the missile warhead explodes on impact.

This can keep the target from realising it is under attack until shortly before the missile strikes.

President Clinton also presided over cruise missile strikes on Iraq in 1996 and bombing attacks on Iraq in 1998, which were launched in response to Saddam Hussein's violation of several UN resolutions, including repression of ethnic minorities ( Kurds ) and removing UN weapons inspectors.

The conflict began on July 12, 2006 when Hezbollah militants fired rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence, killing three, injuring two, and seizing two Israeli soldiers.

The Navy also began development of nuclear-powered attack submarines ( SSN ) and nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines ( SSBN ).

In March 1997, the Luhu-class guided missile destroyer Harbin, the Luda-class guided missile destroyer Zhuhai, and the replenishment oiler Nancang began the PLA Navy's first circumnavigation of the Pacific Ocean, a 98-day voyage with port visits to Mexico, Peru, Chile, and the United States, including Pearl Harbor and San Diego.

The U. S. Army began studies in 1956 for a ballistic missile with a range of about.

in 1958, the ABMA began development of the class of ballistic missile.

The genesis of the NCS began in 1962 after the Cuban missile crisis when communications problems among the United States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and foreign heads of state threatened to complicate the crisis further.

During the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union truly developed an understanding of the effectiveness of U. S. ballistic missile submarine forces, and work on Soviet ballistic missile submarines began in earnest.

The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ( or BMDO ) was an agency of the United States Department of Defense that began on 20 May 1974 with the responsibility for all U. S. ballistic missile defense efforts.

at: 05 / 20 / 1974 text :" May 20, 1974, BMDO began as a replacement of SAFEGUARD and was responsible for all U. S. ballistic missile defense efforts.

In 1984, as a result of the first series of Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties START I between the United States and the Soviet Union, SAC began to decommission its Titan II missile system.

Explosive demolition began at the headworks of missile complex 570-7 on 30 November 1983.

On leaving the gun they began gyrating around each other and made a formidable missile.

By 1943, Germany began mass producing the A-4 as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (“ Vengeance Weapon ” 2, or more commonly, V2 ), a ballistic missile with a range carrying a warhead at.

In late 1945, they began arriving at Fort Bliss, Texas, where, using components brought from Germany, started upgrading the V-2 missile.

During his command, Medaris ' operation also fielded the PGM-11 Redstone and MIM-23 Hawk missiles, accelerated the development of the Nike Zeus system, and began development of the MGM-31 Pershing missile system, which later played a role in ending the Cold War.

Over the next two years, missile launch and control facilities began to appear as tons of concrete and steel transformed the landscape.

At this time, R & D responsibility for guided missiles was added, and studies began on a medium-range guided missile that eventually became the Redstone rocket.

Guidance component testing for this Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile ( IRBM ) began in March 1956 on a modified Redstone missile dubbed Jupiter A while re-entry vehicle testing began in September 1956 on a Redstone with spin-stabilized upper stages named Jupiter-C.

With the development of the three-stage, solid-fuel Minuteman I missile in the late 1950s SAC began searching for sites to deploy this revolutionary weapon.

During 1965, the wing ’ s three missile squadrons were activated and crew training and certification began at Vandenberg AFB, California.