The Exocet (French pronunciation: [ɛɡzɔsɛ]) is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines...
39 KB (3,820 words) - 18:30, 7 March 2025
Exocet is a type of anti-ship missile. Exocet may also mean: In older English literature there are some uses of "exocet" to mean "flying fish" Exocet...
594 bytes (109 words) - 23:32, 15 April 2022
Ronnie O'Sullivan (redirect from The Essex Exocet)
Ronald Antonio O'Sullivan OBE (born 5 December 1975) is an English professional snooker player. Widely recognised as one of the most talented and accomplished...
206 KB (9,521 words) - 10:45, 11 March 2025
Exocet is a typeface designed by the British typographer Jonathan Barnbrook for the Emigre foundry in 1991. It was originally designed for the European...
3 KB (271 words) - 03:02, 12 March 2025
on 17 May 1987 in the Persian Gulf, when an Iraqi jet aircraft fired two Exocet missiles at the U.S. frigate USS Stark. A total of 37 United States Navy...
20 KB (1,906 words) - 20:59, 29 January 2025
aircraft during wartime. Argentina's Navy use of the Super Étendard and the Exocet missile during the 1982 Falklands War led to the aircraft gaining considerable...
40 KB (4,419 words) - 19:31, 13 February 2025
Islands during the Falklands War. She was struck and heavily damaged by an Exocet air-launched anti-ship missile from an Argentine Super Étendard aircraft...
34 KB (3,858 words) - 01:35, 14 December 2024
Exocet/Seacat – installation of Exocet anti-ship missile system in place of 4.5-inch gun mount, plus two additional Seacat missile systems. Exocet/Seawolf...
70 KB (4,576 words) - 20:19, 27 December 2024
of South Georgia "ITB Batería Costera Exocet en Malvinas: Entrevista con el CL (R) Ing. Julio Pérez" [ITB Exocet battery: Interview with Julio Pérez]....
214 KB (23,275 words) - 13:59, 10 March 2025
Tanker War on May 17, 1987, an Iraqi fighter jet hit the USS Stark with two Exocet missiles, killing 37 sailors. Three days later, President Reagan declared...
167 KB (16,846 words) - 02:27, 12 March 2025
Gloucestershire, England, founded in 2003 by Stuart Mills and Julie Wilson. The MEV Exocet made its public debut in June 2010 at the Newark kit car show. It is a front-engine...
9 KB (1,297 words) - 01:47, 27 February 2025
company (now Airbus Defence and Space), plus conventional torpedoes and Exocet anti-ship missiles. The French Navy's goal is to operate a force of four...
10 KB (862 words) - 18:50, 7 June 2024
However, the ships have already been delivered with the Exocet missiles. In 2019 MM40 Exocet Block III were launched from KRI Sultan Iskandar Muda (367)...
10 KB (491 words) - 08:33, 30 October 2024
(China) Harpoon block-2 — (Active Radar Homing Guided Missile) — (USA) Exocet SM-39 — (GPS/INS Guided Missile) — (France) P-282 SMASH — (Ship-launched...
20 KB (1,265 words) - 13:52, 4 February 2025
multiple missions including anti-surface warfare, casualty evacuation, and Exocet missile decoy. In 1986, he married Sarah Ferguson and was made Duke of York...
177 KB (16,946 words) - 12:52, 13 March 2025
aircraft using French Exocet air-to-sea missiles, sinking two ships. This operation was intended to destroy the three remaining Exocet missiles that Argentina...
14 KB (1,640 words) - 23:33, 22 February 2025
1974, she was the subject of a refit, when 'B' turret was replaced by four Exocet launchers in attempt to provide the Royal Navy, reduced by then to one strike...
25 KB (2,790 words) - 02:51, 26 January 2025
multi-functional radar and VL MICA surface-to-air missiles (SAM). It is armed with Exocet anti-ship missiles. The propulsion system is based on Combined Diesel and...
32 KB (2,649 words) - 02:22, 10 January 2025
embarks eight sea-sea Exocet missiles installed on the upper deck amidships. The most recent version MM40 Block 3C of the Exocet missile was selected....
27 KB (2,500 words) - 19:42, 23 August 2024
on 4 May 1982 that sank HMS Sheffield during the Falklands War using the Exocet AM.39 anti-ship missile. It was the first sinking of a Royal Navy ship in...
4 KB (354 words) - 19:50, 13 September 2024
produced its own range of missiles; perhaps the most famous of these was the Exocet, a sea-skimming anti-ship missile. On 1 March 1970, Nord Aviation merged...
14 KB (1,051 words) - 16:58, 31 October 2024
Built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland. She was completed with Exocet launchers in 'B' position. Ardent took part in the Falklands War, where...
17 KB (1,789 words) - 12:06, 10 November 2024
ETBF DSUV 62C towed array sonar on the Barracuda-class submarines. The Exocet SM39 submarine-launched anti-ship missile was initially expected to be replaced...
30 KB (2,304 words) - 20:24, 28 February 2025
the Falklands War, he sank the transport ship Atlantic Conveyor with an Exocet AM.39 anti-ship missile. He finished his naval training at the Escuela Naval...
9 KB (1,019 words) - 04:25, 18 August 2024
Falklands War. She was hit on 25 May 1982 by two Argentine air-launched AM39 Exocet missiles, killing 12 sailors. Atlantic Conveyor sank whilst under tow on...
11 KB (1,040 words) - 03:37, 27 September 2024
government to combine a Lürssen-designed fast patrol boat with Aerospatiale's Exocet missile. These were intended for export to Israel. However the French government...
8 KB (680 words) - 23:40, 27 October 2023
anti-ship missile that aimed to achieve performance similar to the MBDA MM40 Exocet Block II. The name MANSUP stands for "Míssil Antinavio Nacional" in Portuguese...
15 KB (1,165 words) - 09:21, 1 March 2025
ships' main armament was two Exocet MM38 surface-to-surface missiles and a 100 mm (4 in) CADAM turret, but in 2014, the Exocets were removed at the end of...
20 KB (1,850 words) - 08:48, 24 October 2024
their jointly-developed Storm Shadow/SCALP as well as their respective Exocet and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. Equally funded by both countries with a...
40 KB (4,174 words) - 19:25, 19 January 2025
Mk31 21-cell launcher of RAM Block 2B surface-to-air missiles, 8 Block 3 Exocet anti-ship missiles, 2 dual launchers MU90 torpedoes and SYLENA Mk1 decoy...
33 KB (2,818 words) - 10:50, 27 February 2025