shoot down
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The U.S. has deployed a BlueHalo Locust laser weapon system that can shoot down drones with $3 of electricity, also known as “directed energy.”
In addition, the long-range Shahed-style drones Moscow uses are now far more advanced—flying faster and higher, making them far more difficult for air-defense teams to shoot down.
By shooting down four MiG-15s in a single fight, “Royce Williams had accomplished what no other American fighter pilot would ever accomplish,” Thomas McKelvey Cleaver wrote in a history of the Korean naval air campaign.”
German lawmakers this year gave the police broader authority to shoot down drones if necessary.
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The system is designed to shoot down long-range ballistic missiles that fly above the Earth's atmosphere.
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