He'd been horrified when she first told him about the endurance their larger, more robust drives gave Haven's ground-based missiles, but she'd seemed confident.
In January, China fired a ground-based missile into space and destroyed one of its own aging satellites.
At least the invaders were firing only ground-based missiles, not making chase by air.
A ground-based missile cannot be used in the same fashion; it is either launched or not.
Other labs had been working on ideas of their own, from new space or ground-based missiles, to chemical lasers, to particle beam weapons.
Instead, starting in 1996, he'd deploy defenses against limited attack using ground-based missiles.
It could be a real breakthrough, also providing an answer to the problem of ground-based mobile missiles.
Our ground-based missile warning sites confirm no detonations of any kind.
Only the larger ships could hope to take on the defense satellites and the ground-based missiles.
We can knock out their ground-based missiles from space.