WASHINGTON: It was more 'oops' than 'Top Gun' when a US fighter pilot roared up to fire a nearly half-million-dollar Sidewinder missile at a mysterious unarmed object in the sky over Lake Huron - and missed. US officials admit the would-be ace needed a second shot with one of the air-to-air missiles, which
WASHINGTON: It was more"oops" than"Top Gun" when a US fighter pilot roared up to fire a nearly half-million-dollar Sidewinder missile at a mysterious unarmed object in the sky over Lake Huron - and missed.
US officials admit the would-be ace needed a second shot with one of the air-to-air missiles, which cost at least US$400,000 a pop, when engaging the unidentified aerial object from an F-16 fighter Sunday above the sprawling lake on the US-Canada border. "We're aware that the first missile fired, that the one on Sunday, missed and it has been reported to us that it went directly into the lake," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.
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