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.
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.
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.
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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When B-1Bs went into action in Kosovo, air force commanders could see Serbian SA-6 surface-to-air missile radars track the planes.
If Angola commits its relatively well-equipped air force to Congo, it could close the air-bridge the rebels are using to ferry troops from the east to their western front.
Bunkin, designer of the SA-5 and SA-10 surface-to-air missiles.
SITA, a co-operative formed by major world airlines in 1949 to provide communications and data-processing services to the air-transport industry.
The Greek-Cypriots say they will deploy Russian-made ground-to-air missiles next summer.
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Staffing reductions are going into effect all over airports, from security-screening officials to customs officers to air-traffic controllers.
There are big bucks to be made in surgical and medical fabrics-gross profits for surgical packs, gowns, caps, masks, sponges, bandages and tape run 25% to 30%-and in allergen- and pollution-trapping filters for heating and air-conditioning (50% to 60%), both made by 3M.
The study does, however, have a decidedly finger-in-the-air feel to it.
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Prosecutors in New Jersey recently used the Patriot Act to convict Yehuda Abraham, whose services were used in a plot to sell shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles to terrorists with the understanding that they were going to be used to shoot down U.S. commercial aircraft.
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