Russian officials openly acknowledge the planned sale of sophisticated antiaircraft missiles to Greek Cypriots.

Although the Salvadoran guerrillas receive arms and ammunition from many sources, they have never before received sophisticated antiaircraft missiles.

Today, Iran is developing space launch vehicles and sophisticated medium-range ballistic missiles.

They lack the sort of sophisticated wire-guided missiles designed by the United States which allow attacks on tanks from safer distances.

For a city facing bombardment by some of the world's most sophisticated missiles, Baghdad appeared remarkably calm.

"Would Hezbollah use a sophisticated missile that can hit Haifa without permission from Iran?"

Steven Canby, a military reformer, has pointed out that sophisticated heat-seeking missiles can be confused by ordinary smoke pots.

It had hitherto not been suspected that Hamas possessed such a sophisticated missile.

Without the B-2, Northrop would be primarily a subcontractor and supplier of sophisticated missiles.

A sophisticated missile delivering the same payload costs a hundred times as much.