American officials say they will soon authorise the resumption of the shoot-down programme.
An FBI source told CNN that the agency is investigating Cuban defector Juan Pablo Roque as a possible conspirator in the shoot-down, which killed two men on each plane.
The Center for Security Policy commends the United States Navy for Wednesday's successful shoot-down of a failing spy satellite that could have posed a threat to human health and American national security had it fallen to earth.
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That raises the heightened concern that, despite public U.S. proclamations that they would be hesitant to shoot down a North Korean missile launched over the ocean unless it appeared to be heading toward a known land-based target, such a shoot-down is still possible.
For now, the extra deployments will be less capable sea-based Aegis missiles which could shoot down any medium-range Iranian missiles aimed at Europe.
And if part of the administration's defense plan against rogue states includes boost phase intercept -- being able to shoot down offensive missiles very early in their flight -- the system would incidentally also defend Russia.
Iran is not giving the Iraqis the good stuff the anti-aircraft missiles that can shoot down American planes and its advanced anti-tank weapons.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s the idea was revived when American strategists began thinking in earnest about the technologies they would need to shoot down nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
While the existing Aegis system would have very limited ability to shoot down long-range ballistic missiles, the presence of an American missile defense of even uncertain effectiveness may help dissuade nations contemplating attacks and comfort coalition partners, other allies, and U.S. personnel sent into harm's way who have reason to fear those attacks.
But it would be shortsighted to shoot down the F-22 because of governmental operational deficiencies.
And the U.S. reserves the right to strike immediately if Iraq takes any provocative action that threatens the lives of U.S. or U.N. personnel, such as any attempt to shoot down unarmed U-2 reconnaissance flights, scheduled to resume next week.
No less noteworthy is the fact that the SM-3 utilized to shoot down the target was one of the first of the production rounds to come off the manufacturing line.
The threat was demonstrated last November, when operatives believed to be part of al-Qaeda tried to shoot down a plane full of Israeli tourists as it took off from an international airport in Kenya.
Their plan is said to have been to return to Newburgh, set off the bombs by remote control, and then use shoulder-launched missiles to shoot down aircraft at a military base at Stewart International Airport.
Japan had also threatened to shoot down the rocket with land-based batteries if it seemed to endanger its territory.
This past April we locked down the school when a shoot-out occurred directly in front of it.
In June, after U.S. investigators discovered the spent casing of a Russian-made surface-to-air missile lying in the desert near the Prince Sultan air base, Saudi intelligence arrested 11 Saudi members of an al-Qaeda cell for plotting to shoot down U.S. jets that use the facility and for preparing attacks against other American targets in the kingdom.
One Pentagon official said that since early January, a team including 200 industry experts and scientists had worked furiously to modify the Aegis air-defense missile system so it could shoot down the satellite.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin called for leading world powers to create an early-warning system, and consider technology to shoot down meteors.
The small number of interceptors are designed to shoot down an equally small number of Iranian missiles -- not the overwhelming numbers that Russia deploys.
Imagine, for example, even a few of Qaddafi's thousands of surface-to-air missiles being used, not to shoot down Syrian air force jets and helicopters, but U.S. airliners, here or abroad.
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Just as the Brazilian-born striker shaped to shoot, he was brought down by Distin, leaving the referee no option but to give a penalty and show the Frenchman a red card.
Guppies can splash in the Little Kahunas play area, while bigger kids can slip down the high-speed tube slides or shoot hoops in the pool.
Yes, we are developing ground-based missile defense sites in California and Alaska, and we do have ship-based Aegis missile defense systems that theoretically could shoot down a North Korean missile.
He was on one of the ships, was shot by -- was strafed by the fire from the planes coming in, and yet still had the presence of mind to shoot down a plane, and won the Medal of Honor -- or was awarded the Medal of Honor for that.
If interest rates shoot up, the value of your 30-year Treasury will go straight down.
Motherwell took the lead on the stroke of half-time when Hateley delivered a searching free-kick that was nodded down by Loovens for Reynolds to shoot past Boruc from six yards.
His cold spell from Nov. 28 to Dec. 28 saw him shoot 29% overall and 19% from three-point range down from the 46% overall and 41% from distance he was shooting before that.
The detail about a new rate authority to oversee and shoot down premium increases that are deemed to be unjustified, unreasonable -- how is that not big government, the feds getting into the business of regulating and shooting down rate increases?
And now Libya is embroiled in the worst violence to rock the Middle East during the current wave of uprisings, with 41-year ruler Colonel Muammar Gaddafi using snipers and helicopters to shoot down protesters in the capital city Tripoli and sending fighter jets to fire missiles at rebel forces.
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