French naval missile

• Anti-ship missile that skims waves at nearly the speed of sound
• French anti-ship missile
• French missile
• Antiship missile used in the Falklands War
• Dead old detective backed missile
• Missile that sank a British destroyer in the Falklands War

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Exocet ( French for " flying fish ") is a French -built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

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 ...