But missile attacks on ships are rare, so it is difficult to know just how safe a ship really is-especially if an attacker launches a dozen or so missiles at once.

但舰船受到导弹攻击的案例非常少，因此很难判断一条战舰躲过导弹攻击的劫数有多大，特别是在攻击者一次发射十多枚导弹的情况下。

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To begin with, uncertainty about ship “survivability” is increasing as missiles proliferate, says Steve Zaloga, a missile expert at Teal Group, an aerospace consultancy in Fairfax, Virginia.

Steve Zaloga是美国蒂尔集团（一家位于弗吉尼亚费尔法克斯的航空咨询公司）的一位导弹专家。 他表示：随着各种导弹的激增，水面舰艇的“生存性”变得越来越没有把握。

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The missile was fired March 21 from a naval ship in the Bay of Bengal off India's east coast, BrahMos aerospace chief A. Sivathanu Pillai told the Press Trust of India news agency.

3月21日，BrahMos航空航天负责人A. Sivathanu Pillai告诉印度报业托拉斯说，该导弹是从印度东海岸孟加拉湾的海军舰艇上发射的。

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In the past few weeks China has made a splash with progress on an anti-ship missile and a stealth fighter jet.

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An incoming anti-ship missile detected even a dozen miles away can be safely shot down only by a robot, says Frank Biemans, head of sensing technologies for the Goalkeeper automatic ship-defence cannons made by Thales Nederland.

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The United States demonstrated the capability to launch a ballistic missile from a surface ship nearly forty years ago.

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