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Missile that sank a British destroyer in the Falklands War
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exocet
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Exocet is a type of anti-ship missile. Exocet may also mean: In older English literature there are some uses of "exocet" to mean " flying fish " Exocet (typeface) is a typeface Exocet (car) is a kit car produced by MEV Ltd
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1970, proprietary name of a rocket-propelled short-range guided missile, trademarked 1970 by Société Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale , from French exocet "flying fish" (16c.), from Latin exocoetus , from Greek exokoitos "sleeping fish, fish that sleeps ...
Usage examples of exocet.
Paris sold Baghdad a wide range of weapons, including armored vehicles, air defense radars, surface-to-air missiles, Mirage fighters, and Exocet antiship missiles.
Second Fleet had declared a one hundred nautical mile free-fire zone around Task Force Twenty-One to give ample coverage against the fifty-mile range of the late-model Exocet ASMs of the Argentine Navy.
But the Argentine Air Forces' losses had been so severe that the elderly aircraft had been pressed back into service as their main Exocet attack platforms, with the dwindling supply of much newer Mirage 2000-5s covering them.
But the Argentine Air Forces losses had been so severe that the elderly aircraft had been pressed back into service as their main Exocet attack platforms, with the dwindling supply of much newer Mirage 2000-5s covering them.