missile
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The Iran World Cup team arrived in Tijuana wearing lapel pins on their jackets acknowledging victims of a Feb. 28 missile strike on an elementary school.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
“Training runs are far easier to conceal than missile silos.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
That makes it harder to increase production of one type of missile without disrupting the supply chain for another in-demand weapon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
US President Donald Trump told NBC News on Friday that Iran still retained roughly "21, 22 percent" of its missile stockpile despite repeated claims from US officials that Tehran's military capacity had been crippled.
From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026
He told them, for example, that the U-2 plane had not been shot down by a single missile, as Khrushchev had announced publicly, but by fourteen rockets, and by MiG fighter jets as well.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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