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surface-to-air missile
1. ‘’Indeed! I was able to film this morning the downing of four Israeli F-15 fighter-bombers over Tehran by surface-to-air missiles
2. be used in a hand-held, shoulder-fired, surface-to-air missile
3. We can see on these satellite pictures a number of amphibious landing ships landing various combat and support vehicles, including some surface-to-air missile systems and at least two air surveillance radars
4. Three of the F-15Js were shot down or heavily damaged by the blizzard of surface-to-air missiles fired in desperation by the Chinese ships, while a third of the Japanese missiles were decoyed or shot down by the Chinese close-in weapons systems
5. I even spotted what looked like surface-to-air missile batteries being set up
6. She however forgot to take account of the late reaction by the suspected surface-to-air missiles, which she had judged erroneously, based on her previous photos, to be still non-operational
7. She found a regiment of a new Soviet heavy jet bomber, along with a regiment of Il-28s and another regiment of Mig fighters, plus dozens of anti-aircraft guns and even a surface-to-air missile battery
8. ‘’Start firing at that group of small boats ahead with our aft 76mm gun! Radio: signal to Haifa that we have intercepted a flotilla of hostile boats and that our helicopter has been shot down by a surface-to-air missile
9. Far in the distance, a good six miles away, Erik saw through his binoculars the trails of smoke from the four successive surface-to-air missiles going up and hitting first a helicopter, then three F-15s one after the other, with one fireball marking the destruction of one F-15 and falling flaming torches marking the shooting down of the two others
10. After four days of contradictory news reports that involved mostly speculations at first, the BBC, which had excellent sources in Cyprus and Lebanon, had published just this morning a new report that claimed that surface-to-air missiles had been fired at Israeli planes from the Heraklion, prompting the Israelis into bombing and sinking the cargo ship
11. Viktor was however not surprised by the allegation that the Israelis had suffered losses: after all, the Igla-S missile was the most advanced model of portable surface-to-air missile system to ever been produced in Russia, with the batch sent on the Heraklion being actually fitted with the latest counter-countermeasures algorithms developed to date
12. As valuable as drones could be over uncontested airspace, too many amateur strategists and techno-warriors tended to forget that remotely-controlled drones flying at low subsonic speeds could not survive long in an airspace properly defended by an effective air defense network that had both surface-to-air missiles and fighter aircraft
13. ‘’Gentlemen, the problem of having to deal with concentrations of mixed antiaircraft guns and surface-to-air missiles, or SAMs in short, is something the American Airforce encountered in Nancy’s history in other conflicts
14. Four more puffs then appeared from about the same location: the British were firing a whole battery of surface-to-air missiles at her
15. I am being fired upon by six British surface-to-air missiles over the Orkney Islands
