ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EXOCET
From French, from New Latin Exocoetus volitans flying fish.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXOCET»
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Two British agents must prevent a devastating weapon from falling into enemy hands In the hotly contested Falkland Islands, an underground struggle rages between Argentinean agents seeking to buy black-market Exocet missiles and the British ...
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The Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapons Systems, ...
Perhaps the best-known Western ship-launched antiship missile, the
Aerospatiale Exocet sank the British destroyer Sheffield and the container ship
Atlantic Conveyor in the Falklands. Exocet has also been used by Iraq in the Gulf
War, ...
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Ordeal by
Exocet: Hms Glamorgan and the Falklands War 1982
Incorporating vivid firsthand accounts and illustrated with photographs, the book also portrays the daily life of an escort under wartime conditions and describes only too clearly the tension, fear, storm, cold, disaster and sorrow which ...
T THE DESTROYER HMS Sheffield was doomed from the moment that Argentine
Navy aircraft managed to get close enough to launch their Exocet missiles.
Sheffield carried no weapons that could destroy the Exocet before it ploughed
into ...
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International Electronic Countermeasures Handbook
The original MM.38 Exocet (MM = Mer-Mer; sea-sea) was intended for ship-to-
ship attack. The French government began the program in 1968 to meet a
requirement for the navy. In 1971, the British government joined the program,
sharing the ...
Horizon House, Journal of Electronic Defense Staff Horizon House, 2004
UMS SHEFFIELD, the first and most devastating British, naval loss of the
Falklands War, was hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile because the ship's
computer was programmed to recognise the Exocet as friendly. Immediately after
the sinking, ...
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The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: ...
Manufacturer: Matra-BAE Dynamics. MM 15: A surface-launched variant of the
AS 15 air-launched missile. Not used by the French Navy. Manufacturer:
Aerospatiale. MM 40 Exocet: An improved version of the MM 38 and the AM 39,
the MM 40 ...
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Air War in the Falklands 1982
m x o o Given the importance that the Exocet missile possessed in the course of
the Falklands war, it is useful to look slightly more closely at the actions in which
this potentially decisive weapon was employed. The first of these actions, ...
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negotiations in trade or commerce between any entities no matter how large or
how "commercial" those entities may be.9 So great has the impact of s 52 been
that the writer has described it as "A Plaintiff's New Exocet"10 and, in other ...
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The Living Marine Resources of Somalia
... Exhippolysmata ensirostris 10 Exocet a grandes ecailles 164 Exocet africain
163 Exocet aile courte 166 Exocet aile jaune 165 Exocet boue 165 Exocet
cadene 163 Exocet coromandel 165 Exocet de Sutton 1 64 Exocet pharaon 1 64
Exocet ...
Corinna Sommer, Wolfgang Schneider, Jean-Maurice Poutiers, 1996
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXOCET»
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Jimmy Choo shoes
... in fact it's only battle cruiser, the Argentine air force hit and destroyed the HMS Sheffield with a single French Exocet missile, which sank with ... «ABS CBN News, Jul 15»
The fourth horseman of 2005
Just remember the frightening exocet missiles that tailed in at the last minute. That is why he was so good. That is why we will remember him. «ESPNcricinfo.com, Jul 15»
More successful Iran will calm the region: Powell aide
You know what happened after that; we wound up fully on Iraq's side, even after Iraq hit one of our warships with “two” Exocet missiles and ... «Tehran Times, Jul 15»
'France in the Hollande Presidency'
With this tweet Ms Trierweiler became more than a loose cannon in the Elysée Palace; “she turned out to be an Exocet missile,” Gaffney writes. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
Ormskirk inflict first defeat on Northern
Currency took off like a exocet missile around the ground in celebration of taking the final wicket. Northern were all out for 144. It was all over ... «Southport Visiter, Jul 15»
Wimbledon 2015: Serena Williams crushes Timea Babos to set up …
Babos could but smile at the Exocet missiles being fired in her direction. Just when it looked as though she could keep pace, courtesy of an ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
I'll support England's women, but it's not like men's football – and …
One is that there is more chance of Ann Widdecombe trundling off the bench to propel a last-minute, 30-yard Exocet into the roof of the ... «The Independent, Jun 15»
Thieves target UK 'greenest tenant' Tom Gleed's Poplar community …
... Auxiliary's original Sir Galahad support ship which later sank in the 1981 Falklands conflict when it was hit by an Argentine Exocet missile. «East London Advertiser, Jun 15»
Mixed fortunes for duo at Croft
... Championship races at Croft, but the Pershore team will be grateful for the mid-season break after both its Exocet AlcoSense Audis – driven ... «Evesham Observer, Jun 15»
BTCC: Croft - More left in the tank, says Austin
Nevertheless, Austin - who still start the first race on the fragile soft tyre - admits he's taken a bit of gamble as the Exocet driver aims to 'buck the ... «crash.net, Jun 15»
