For example, they are equipped with defensive countermeasures against surface to air missiles which makes them suitable for operations in areas where conventional business jets might fear to fly.
The unit also found what it said were a number of surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles about 50 yards away, and about 150 gas masks of a higher quality than others left behind by retreating Iraqi troops.
Tappin, the former director of Surrey-based Brooklands International Freight Services and the former president of Kent Golf Society, had previously denied trying to sell batteries for surface-to-air missiles that were to be shipped from the US to Tehran via the Netherlands, claiming he was the victim of an FBI sting.
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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.
Combined with its inherent "Stealthy" characteristics, these countermeasures have permitted the SR-71 to survive hundreds of reported attempts by the North Koreans, for example, to destroy it with a variety of advanced surface-to-air missiles.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered Tuesday the air defense systems deployed around Washington armed with surface-to-air missiles.
Syria's air and naval forces conducted live-fire manoeuvres aimed testing their readiness to repulse "any aggression against the homeland, " the official Sana news agency reported, with state TV pictures reportedly showing warplanes and helicopters firing missiles at targets in a desert area, as well as surface-to-air missiles hitting targets in the air.
An east London resident wants to take legal action after his apartment complex was earmarked for the use of surface-to-air missiles during the Olympics.
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Patriots, which are surface-to-air missiles, have been deployed to Turkey to protect the country.
Many items will still be banned from Somalia, including surface-to-air missiles, large-calibre guns, howitzers and cannons.
The Ministry of Defence is considering placing surface-to-air missiles on residential flats during the Olympics.
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There are also launchers for surface-to-air missiles, various gun placements, submarine attack torpedoes and two combat helicopters.
Major-General Henry Osman showed a video which he said showed bomb damage on surface-to-air missiles site near Kandahar.
Iran is defended, but mainly by Soviet-era surface-to-air missiles of a kind the Israelis have dealt with before.
However, he said there was no indication that the rebels were armed with heavy weapons or surface-to-air missiles.
Myers described the cache as consisting of 40 different bunkers with artillery rounds and other munitions, including 50 surface-to-air missiles.
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Mr Clerides has already said that, if the Cyprus talks fizzle out, he will deploy Russian surface-to-air missiles next year.
The plane, with the wingspan of a 737, flies pilotlessly at 20, 000 meters--out of range of all but the best surface-to-air missiles.
Hussein launched a policy of challenging enforcement of those zones in late 1998, deploying surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft artillery against the aircraft.
Meanwhile, a U.S. official said reports that Israel had struck a Syrian research facility were wrong, instead saying warplanes hit only one target: a convoy carrying surface-to-air missiles.
They include allegations the Pakistani intelligence service has backed the Taliban insurgents' fight against the US-led coalition and the Afghan government, and indicate Taliban fighters have acquired surface-to-air missiles.
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Bunkin, designer of the SA-5 and SA-10 surface-to-air missiles.
The Ministry of Defence is guarding the games with two warships, Typhoon jet fighters, Puma helicopters, and, perhaps most controversially, surface-to-air missiles placed on apartment buildings near the stadium, despite objections from residents.
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.
The Patriot is an advanced surface-to-air missile system intended to defend against aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles.
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