Shoot Down

Word SHOOT DOWN
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For example, the 9/11 Commission concluded that Cheney issued the first air force shoot-down order on the morning of September 11, 2001—apparently before he had spoken to the president. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

The country's shoot-down policy effectively ended in 2001 after a CIA and Peruvian Air Force team mistakenly downed a plane carrying a family of U.S. missionaries misidentified as drug traffickers. ❋ John Lyons (2012)

If anything, the pace of innovation is even faster in the military than in the civilian world, and as better look-down, shoot-down capabilities have come on line, they have been systematically layered and squeezed into the aging airframe of the F‑15. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the accidental shoot-down of Iran-Air flight 655 in July 1988 by the USS Vincennes unquestionably contributed to Tehran's determination that the White House had allied itself with Saddam Hussein and therefore the Iran-Iraq war was lost. ❋ Reuel Marc Gerecht (2011)

However, the report said, that failure was not a cause of the shoot-down. ❋ Julian E. Barnes (2011)

Khomeini continued the slaughter of the Iran-Iraq war for six years beyond the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Iran, but agreed to a UN cease-fire after becoming convinced the United States was about to intervene more directly after the accidental shoot-down of an Iranian airliner in 1988. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The test record for the Airborne Laser since the 2010 missile shoot-down is mixed. ❋ Nathan Hodge (2011)

An odd way of describing the surrender following the accidental shoot-down of an Iranian passenger plane by the U.S. Navy. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Today the fight has moved beyond visual range, into the realm of electromagnetic waves*, and involves what fighter pilots call “look-down, shoot-down” capability. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Vice President Cheney called back shortly and asked for reconfirmation of the shoot-down authorization. ❋ KARL ROVE (2010)

When the first reports of the helicopter shoot-down arrived in 2007, word spread in intelligence circles that the culprit was an Iranian-supplied weapon, one person familiar with the incident recalled. ❋ Unknown (2010)

* A spokesman there wouldn't confirm the shoot-down. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Details of the previously-unreported shoot-down, which occurred last month, are still sketchy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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