But it would be shortsighted to shoot down the F-22 because of governmental operational deficiencies.
South Korea has warned it will shoot down the rocket if it strays over its territory.
But it says it did shoot down a US military helicopter in Somalia in 1993.
"Someone has deliberately sought to shoot down this golden eagle in a shocking act of criminality, " she said.
No attempt will be made to shoot down the satellite until after the U.S. space shuttle lands next Wednesday.
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Mr Dunn was the first pilot with 71 Eagle Squadron to shoot down two German aircraft in a day.
Trying to shoot down an incoming missile or warhead with a physical projectile, by contrast, is much more difficult.
And is the U.S. counseling Japan also not to shoot down the missile?
Their indictment alleges they also wanted to shoot down U.S. military planes.
The National Missile Defense system, heavily backed by President George W. Bush, would be able to shoot down incoming nuclear missiles.
In 1998, Brazil's Congress approved a law allowing the air force to shoot down planes that enter Brazilian air space illegally.
Recent translation:Japan isn't going to shoot down a missile headed to California.
If the ship had SM 3s aboard, it might be able actually to help shoot down any ballistic missiles launched at Israel.
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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin called for leading world powers to create an early-warning system, and consider technology to shoot down meteors.
Hours into the game, I still feel chills shoot down my spine at every zombie encounter because my survival is anything but guaranteed.
It was in response to Iraqi attempts to shoot down those allied patrols that U.S. and British planes struck targets outside Baghdad on Friday.
It's specifically designed to shoot down missiles during their final stage of flight, and is expected to arrive on Guam within the next few weeks.
The Obama administration, meanwhile, would have to choose whether to attempt to shoot down the missile, a technically complicated procedure with no guarantee of success.
Meanwhile, putting any kind of defense in space, where it might shoot down a missile on the way up instead of down, is strictly forbidden.
Defence officials say that because the system will be able to shoot down missiles in space, it could cause nuclear and chemical warheads to disintegrate safely.
At America's behest, the group agreed to keep tabs on portable missiles, to stop them falling into the hands of terrorists hoping to shoot down commercial jets.
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It can be achieved most rapidly, most efficiently and most affordably from the sea, by adapting the Navy's AEGIS fleet air defense system to shoot down ballistic missiles.
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.
However, Mr Hammer's technique, based on maths that was invented in the 1930s and was first used to work out how to shoot down German aircraft, requires only seven trials.
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.
The system on its way to the island is part of a "layered" defense giving the military multiple opportunities to shoot down incoming missiles and warheads before they reach their targets.
They're reconfigured to shoot down ballistic missiles in flight.
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.
Interestingly, the argument most often offered up in the effort to shoot down my conclusions was the position that most health insurers are already meeting, or very close to meeting, the medical loss requirements.
Another laser that came close to being practical enough to use was the Tactical High Energy Laser, also known as the Nautilus laser (pictured above), which was designed to shoot down incoming artillery rounds.
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