Word: antiaircraft
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Anticipating the Tareq-901, rechristened in honor of an Islamic hero, the U.S. Navy had already dispatched the nuclear-attack submarine Topeka to the gulf. Western experts suspect that Iran's sub is equipped with SA-16 infrared- guided antiaircraft missiles obtained from the Russians two years ago, as well as its normal armament of 18 torpedoes...
...streets are controlled by pickup trucks carrying antiaircraft guns and young men -- some barely in their teens -- with Kalashnikov rifles. Their eyes are bright with the drug called kat, their fingers quick on the trigger. Makeshift hospitals dot the city; the existing ones were looted long ago. The wounded must bring their own beds, so most end up lying on the floor, a weeping relative holding aloft their intravenous solution -- when it is available. Somali doctors and foreign volunteers move so quickly from patient to patient that trails of blood pattern the floors...
...effrontery to call for the extermination of the great Russian nation." Patriotic Russians would never let that happen. "No mercy for the German invaders," he said. In Red Square the next day, he again sought to rein in the panic and rally the country. Under a sky ringed with antiaircraft blimps, with artillery fire echoing and under constant threat of Luftwaffe attack, the Soviet leader evoked the glories of Russia's heroic past -- Alexander Nevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin; he also, of course, included Lenin in this pantheon. "The enemy is at the gates of Moscow and Leningrad," he said...
...about dusk we saw four planes flying low, coming up the channel toward the harbor. Almost every antiaircraft gun in the Navy Yard started firing at them. The sad part is, they turned out to be U.S. Navy planes from the carrier Enterprise. Three were shot down, and the fourth pilot was brought into the hospital, wounded...
...were given credit for shooting down the first Japanese aircraft of the war. One of our old blunderbuss antiaircraft guns lined up one of the planes and hit him. A bomb hit near two destroyers in dry dock. Their seams opened % up, their oil drained out and caught fire, their magazines went off. They were cremated...