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land down en · VERB
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(transitive) To intercept (a missile) and bring it to ground before it reaches its target.
According to him [scil. Ilya Tumanov], the airfield’s air defense systems managed to intercept only seven of the missiles, emphasizing that this term refers only to an attempt to land them down, not the interception of the missiles.
2024 November 25th, Olena Mukhina, “Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian military airfield in Kursk Oblast with ATACMS missiles for first time”, in Euromaidan Press:
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