intercontinental

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In September 2024, China carried out its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in decades, launching a dummy warhead from Hainan island in southern China into waters near French Polynesia in the Pacific Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 6, 2026

Space support ships are designed to track rocket launches, satellites and intercontinental missile activity.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

China's capacity to strike Australia would grow over the next decade as "the DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missile, and potentially a conventionally armed intercontinental ballistic missile, grow in service numbers", it said.

From Barron's • Jun. 14, 2026

Instead of intercontinental ballistic missiles, armored vehicles and other military hardware, parade goers were shown a video of that equipment, either in action in Ukraine or being tested for readiness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

“Artemis can wait. This is for the intercontinental title. And it’s a grudge match. Louie ate the Hogman’s pet piggie.”

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer