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Exocet Mil.|ˈɛksəsɛt|
[a. F. exocet flying fish, ad. L. exōcœt-us, ad. Gr. ἐξώκοιτος sleeping out, a fish that comes up on to the beach, f. ἔξω (see exo-) + κοῖτος bed.]
A proprietary name for a kind of rocket-propelled short-range guided missile used esp. in tactical sea warfare. Freq. attrib. in Exocet missile.
1970Trade Marks Jrnl. 25 Nov. 1990/1 Exocet... Surface-to-surface, sea-to-sea, or submarine-to-surface self guided rocket-propelled missiles; rocket launching apparatus for use therewith. Société Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale.., France. 1972Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 14 Nov. tm85/1 Societe Nationale Industrielle Aerospatiale,..France... Exocet... For surface-surface, sea-sea, or submarine-surface missiles with autonomous fore and self-guiding systems and launching equipment. 1976Facts on File Yearbk. XXXVI. 714/1 French MM38 Exocet missiles, which had a 25-mile range at near supersonic speed. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 566/1 To sink the enemy's ships we must now rely on..ships equipped with Exocet, a weapon which we bought off the shelf from the French. 1982Daily Tel. 26 Nov. 5/1 Britain's forces in the South Atlantic take into account the presence in Argentina of Exocet-carrying Super Etendards. 1983Ann. Reg. 1982 13 On 4 May HMS Sheffield, a type 42 destroyer, was sunk by a French-made Exocet air-to-sea missile. |
