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Word: 9m (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another %*& !! MiG crossed my nose, and I lost my cool. I fired an AIM-9M Sidewinder, and the MiG disappeared in a satisfying cloud of gray- black smoke. The explosion, though, caught the attention of hostile aircraft up and down the coast. Soon the warning lights on my display panel were lighted up like a pinball machine. I was able to evade an incoming AA-10 Alamo missile by releasing a burst of radar-deflecting chaff, and I fooled an SA-10 surface-to-air missile by sending out a decoy drone. But all the electronic countermeasures in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: I Flew the Stealth Fighter | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

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