But it would be shortsighted to shoot down the F-22 because of governmental operational deficiencies.
"Someone has deliberately sought to shoot down this golden eagle in a shocking act of criminality, " she said.
He was reported to have threatened to shoot down any planes using the airport unless he was reinstated.
Japan had also threatened to shoot down the rocket with land-based batteries if it seemed to endanger its territory.
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.
They succeeded because the United States was unready to use defenses it does currently have to shoot down domestic commercial planes.
Recent translation:Japan isn't going to shoot down a missile headed to California.
Al Qaeda didn't have the capability to shoot down aircraft, officials said.
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Meanwhile, Japan's defence ministry said the country's armed forces have been ordered to shoot down any North Korean missile headed towards its territory.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin called for leading world powers to create an early-warning system, and consider technology to shoot down meteors.
Whether it was a genuine capture or a sting operation, the government has threatened to shoot down any aircraft attempting the same mission.
An aircraft that is very difficult to shoot down can linger in a particular area, making sure that all valuable targets are destroyed.
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.
There soon will be another military element in this U.S. territory a defense system will be installed to shoot down incoming missiles and warheads.
Iran has claimed to shoot down or capture a string of American drones, and last November, an Iranian fighter plane fired at a drone, missing.
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.
The small number of interceptors are designed to shoot down an equally small number of Iranian missiles -- not the overwhelming numbers that Russia deploys.
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.
The American intelligence official told me that rebels have an estimated thirty shoulder-fired missiles, and that they have used two of them to shoot down Syrian helicopters.
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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People have since reckoned that, if China's leadership were prepared to shoot down civilians, it might also be prepared to tear up its promises to Hong Kong.
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.
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