antiballistic missile in English
noun
1
a missile designed for intercepting and destroying a ballistic missile while in flight.
Vital to this were the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, which in 1972 resulted in an agreement to limit the deployment of strategic offensive missiles and antiballistic missile systems.
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1. At the same time many countries at the PC session quite scathingly criticized the actions of the US administration, which has unilaterally decided to withdraw from ABM Treaty of 1972, refused to submit to Congress for ratification the START-2 Treaty and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and is discussing the possibility of developing space-based nuclear antiballistic-missile weapons.