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Pithon
''' Pithon ''' is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.
Usage examples of "pithon".
The missiles were new Russian Novator KS-172 Pithon "Python" air-to-air missiles, designed specifically for use against airborne radar planes and intelligence-gathering aircraft by homing in on their radars and electromagnetic emissions--they could even home in on the stray electronic emissions from computer screens leaking through the cockpit or observation windows.
All four Pithon missiles plowed into the Hawkeye's twenty-foot rotodome, stripping it from the fuselage and sending the entire aircraft spinning into the sea.