Word: exocet
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Saddam Hussein, to strengthen his hand further against Iran, has taken delivery from France since midsummer of 28 new Mirage Fl fighter-bombers. The planes, with a range of more than 600 miles, are equipped to fire French-made Exocet missiles. In September, France airlifted 150 of the missiles to Iraq's Habbaniya air force base. When pilots for the fighters have been trained, Iraq is expected to step up its attacks on ships departing from Iran's main oil terminal at Kharg Island. Baghdad's oft-stated goal is to cut off Iran...
...image was grimly familiar: a fighter flashing across the morning sky over the azure waters of the Persian Gulf and firing an Exocet missile into a neutral ship. After a 22-day lull in the Iran-Iraq tanker war, an Iraqi pilot last week claimed another victim, the 25th of the conflict. World Knight, a 258,437-ton tanker owned by Hong Kong Shipping Magnate Sir Y.K. Pao, was bound for Kharg Island to pick up Iranian crude oil. Two British officers and four Chinese seamen were killed immediately as the Exocet demolished the ship's aft superstructure...
...Falklands war took out an advertisement in a British magazine last week-not to apologize but to defend the weapon against charges that it is a lemon. The sponsor of that milestone in marketing history is Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale, the French firm whose Exocet air-to-surface missile was responsible for one of the biggest British setbacks of the ten-week war. Argentina used the weapon to sink the destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield, which went down in the South Atlantic on May 4, 1982, with a loss of 20 seamen. Aerospatiale bought a page...
...Exocet has been frequently used against Persian Gulf shipping since the four-year-old war between Iran and Iraq extended to gulf waters last March. In recent months, however, a number of publications, quoting military analysts, have charged that the missile often misses its target and that its 363-lb. warhead frequently fails to explode on impact. Aerospatiale had endured such criticism in silence, the ad indicated, partly out of "respect for the seamen who lost their lives during the fighting." Now, however, the firm could wait no longer to refute the "inaccurate information ... to set the record straight...
...midfield, with neither defense or goalkeeper having a whole lot to do. But the Lions were able to claw their way onto the scoreboard in the 18th minute when freshman midfielder James Allard, after receiving a pass 18 yards out from All-Ivy left back Kevin McCarthy, blasted an Exocet into the upper right corner of the goal past keeper Matt Ginsburg...