Word: interceptor
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...ranch in the hills near Santa Barbara, Calif. The mystery of a missing South Korean jetliner that had strayed over Soviet territory, said Meese, had been solved: 17 hours earlier Korean Air Lines Flight 007 had been cold-bloodedly blasted out of the skies by a missile-firing Soviet interceptor, with an all but certain loss of 269 lives...
...travelers on his airliner soon were in trouble. Somehow, Flight 007 had passed those lines, invisible in the sky but so clearly etched on maps, that mark forbidden airspace. The Soviets scrambled MiG-23s, their widely deployed supersonic jet fighter, and Sukhoi-15s, a slightly older but nonetheless lethal interceptor, to follow the 747. Japanese and American intelligence sources later figured that at least eight of the single-seat fighters pursued the relatively slow-moving airliner...
...extension of the arms race into space. Although Andropov's response noted that Moscow had presented a draft treaty to the United Nations in 1981 calling for a ban on weapons in space, he failed to mention that the Soviet Union has already tested an ASAT, or antisatellite interceptor, capable of destroying a satellite in orbit. The U.S. began in the early 1970s to develop a similar weapon...
Trying to retake the Falklands, the British task force needed three kinds of warplanes: a naval interceptor to protect the fleet, a ground-attack aircraft to soften up enemy defenses on the islands, and an agile troop-support plane to cover British forces as they advance from their bridgehead toward the main Argentine garrison at Port Stanley. All those roles have been filled by what the British regard as their magnificent flying machine: the Sea Harrier, a vertical short-takeoff and landing jet whose maneuverability and advanced avionics have made it more than a match for the land-based attack...
...flown B-52 support missions in his Phantom Interceptor off the carrier Bonhomme Richard; Ray--who is a doctor, a healer who sometimes cuts off the life support; Ray--who has seen too much useless death and too much useless life; Ray--who in his third decade is divorced and remarried to a woman who is perfect, except he hates her, except he loves another woman named Sister, except she is murdered on the verge of rock'n'roll stardom in a shack in Tuscaloosa; Ray--who steals a Learjet and crashes it into the Toronto woods; Ray, the unfaithful...