Word: exocet
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...blindsiding of an American frigate caught with its defenses down by an Exocet missile seemed, on one level, nothing more than a tragic accident. No harm intended. No one really to blame. Regret and reparations offered. Yet, curiously, the fact that the tragedy seemed so dreadfully meaningless caused its ripples to swell and become more troublesome as the week wore on. A nation that had committed itself to building an expensive 600-ship Navy began to worry whether the ships might be sitting ducks whenever they sailed into harm's way. A nation that has been unable since Viet...
Ernie gestured at the Red Sea below us. "You want to try some of this stuff out? I got a brand-new Exocet missile slung out of this baby, best firecracker in the world...
...That was great, wasn't it?" Ernie asked, as the Exocet sped off on its course. Soon we were back at altitude, heading home. As we passed over the strait of Gibraltar, Ernie suddenly turned to me, a look of shock on his face...
...Navy said the ship's crew, with assistance from other U.S. warships, had finally managed to douse all the fires that were touched off when at least one Exocet missile slammed through the frigate's hull in the attack Sunday night...
...Indian captain, Ajay Kumar Verma, said in a ship-to-shore telephone interview that four empty tanks were hit by an Exocet missile...