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exocet

ek soh set

  • n  a guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships
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  • Kenneth Pollack in Independent Online
    By 1982, Iraq accounted for 40 percent of French arms exports,wrote Pollack. "Paris sold Baghdad a wide range of weapons, including armoured vehicles, air defence radars, surface-to-air missiles, Mirage fighters, and Exocet anti-ship...
  • Andy Burnham in Times Online
    In response to suggestions by Lord Lipsey, a former member of the Royal Commission on Long-Term Care, that the plan amounted to "an admiral firing an Exocet into his own flagship", Mr Burnham said: "The Bill is about providing help to the...
  • Neil Warnock in Telegraph.co.uk
    Phil Ifill got them off to a flier with a shot that, Warnock said, went in "like an Exocet".

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