Word: exocets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...
Iraqi warplanes firing antiship Exocet missiles set a Cypriot tanker ablaze in Iranian waters, one day after an Iraqi air attack on a shrimp trawler killed its Australian skipper...
...Indian captain, Ajay Kumar Verma, said in a ship-to-shore telephone interview that four empty tanks were hit by an Exocet missile...
...noon Tuesday, six French-made F-1 Mirages streaked out of the west. They fired Exocet missiles and dropped laser-guided bombs on an estimated 15 tankers anchored off Sirri and on the terminal itself. Three ships were hit, ^ and one, the 233,788-ton Iranian supertanker Azarpad, was consumed by flames. Fires on two other vessels and the 6-sq.-mi. island took a day to control. In all, at least eight seamen died...