An Israeli F-16 shot the drone with air-to-air missiles, an Israeli military official told CNN.
It can also be used to monitor air-to-air and air-to-ground communications between and among others.
North Korea criticised Japan on Monday for conducting air-to-air refueling exercises with the American air force.
The self-guided Russian R-77 medium-range air-to-air missile is almost as good as the U.S. AIM-120 AMRAAM.
The Nimrod spy plane exploded on 2 September 2006, shortly after undergoing air-to-air refuelling.
Washington could rely on ship-to-air and air-to-air missiles, but they would be less effective against low-flying craft.
The Seawolf submarine, the C-17 transport aircraft, several different air-to-ground and air-to-air missiles are in the cross-hairs.
There has been little in the way of air-to-air combat so far during the conflict with Yugoslavia.
After combat operations exposed deficiencies, allies also worked to standardize air-to-air refueling nozzles and connecting bombs to aircraft.
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Britain will purchase Meteor air-to-air missiles from a European consortium rather than an off-the-shelf product from America's Raytheon.
UAVs could be as effective as manned fighters at dropping bombs, air-to-air combat and silencing the enemy's air defences.
The aircraft maintains the air-to-air combat ability of the main F-15 fighter as the pilot can detect and fire at other aircraft.
Just prior to the war in Iraq, Phillips became the first female journalist to fly in an F-14 air-to-air combat training mission over the Persian Gulf.
In 1989, a U.S. fighter jet destroyed a U.S. satellite by firing a modified air-to-air missile into space from an altitude of 80, 000 feet.
Sell Taiwan the AIM-9X helmet display sighted air-to-air missile to confer a balance with the Russian R-73 helmet-sighted AAMs that arm PLAAF Su-27 and Su-30 fighters.
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It reportedly supplied both humanitarian assistance and arms - including deadly SA-7 man-portable surface-to-air missiles - apparently destined for Islamists, again including al Qaeda elements, in Syria.
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The PLA Air Force could absorb everything the U.S. could throw against it and still have additional combat assets available when the U.S. runs out of air-to-air munitions.
These include: eight sophisticated diesel submarines, advanced SU-30 fighter aircraft, modern air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons, supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles and as many as 350 short- and medium-range ballistic missiles.
Britain has also helped with air-to-air refuelling, thus extending the effective range of America's carrier-based bombers, and agreed to the use of Diego Garcia, a British island in the Indian Ocean, as a base for heavy bombers.
The agreement includes plans for common maintenance and training on the A400M transport aircraft - which both countries are acquiring - and the possibility of France using the UK's air-to-air refuelling aircraft, when there is spare capacity and training.
The problem is--assuming the F-35 sees the light of day in a timely manner--that this aircraft simply doesn't do the job in air-to-air combat that the F-22 does, nor does it have the F22's ability to penetrate sophisticated defenses.
For the PLA, anti-missile systems, Aegis-class guided-missile cruisers, near-top-of-the-line F-16s fitted out with the latest air-to-air missiles, "over-the-horizon" long-range radar - all of this equipment is either in Taiwan, on its way or "under consideration" - are threats that can be coped with militarily.
It said that officials were considering extending the life of the RAF's VC10s - due to be retired from service in March - then using the Tristar, which goes out of service next year, to meet air-to-air refuelling needs until the new planes are ready to take over.
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But Russia also has thousands of SA-5, SA-10, and SA-12 surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) defending against short-and medium-range missiles such as those in the arsenals of China, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, and other countries.
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Two of its nationals were recently arrested trying to sell Chinese-made QW-2 man-portable surface-to-air missiles in this country.
Lee has accumulated irrefutable, unclassified evidence of a dirty little secret: Those responsible for designing and deploying the Kremlin's ABM system around Moscow (which was allowed under the 1972 ABM Treaty) were under orders to use its radars and 8, 000-10, 000 surface-to-air interceptors to assemble an illegal nation-wide missile defense.
The tests included the first night test of the Shahab-3 missile, said to have a range of 2, 000km (1, 240 miles), along with shore-to-sea, surface-to-surface and sea-to-air missiles, state media reported.
When B-1Bs went into action in Kosovo, air force commanders could see Serbian SA-6 surface-to-air missile radars track the planes.
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