Word: targets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...target is destroyed...
...begins to overshoot the jetliner. Ground control apparently orders the Su-15 to remain behind it. The pilot is forced to drop back, grumbling at the lateness of the command. "It should have been earlier," he complains. "How can I chase it? I'm already abeam of the target . . . Now I have to fall back from the target." He confirms the airliner's position: 70° to his left...
...pilot of the Su-15 announces his intention to down the passenger plane with an air-to-air missile. Meanwhile, the MiG-23, some 7 miles from the target, reports to ground control that he has both the Soviet hunter and its Korean prey squarely in his field of vision...
...closing on the target, am in lock on. Distance to target is eight...
Pilot 805 activates the radar and weapons systems that automate the aim of his missiles. He has extended the distance between his plane and the jetliner from 2 to 8 km (4.9 miles) to avoid debris from the soon-to-be-smashed target...