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  • They are flying over London with heatseeking helicopters, also electrical usage gives them away.

    Matthew Yglesias » Predictions I Hope Come True 2007

  • She heads straight for you like a slow moving, heatseeking missile.

    The Sound of Barcelona 2009

  • This will radically shrink the usable envelope of hostile radar guided weapons and in the instance of the YF-23, also heatseeking weapons.

    Unthreaded #19 « Climate Audit 2007

  • And this is more than just cordoning off the Sunni Triangle and giving the people 36 hours to clear out then carpetbomb the place, this also involves our heatseeking missiles and unmanned drones in order to eradicate the terrorists.

    Easter Lemming Liberal News 2006

  • Fox one indicates a heatseeking missile, Fox two an infrared missile, and Fox three a radar guided missile.

    Typhoon Season Douglass, Keith 2000

  • That left only guns and a Sidewinder, the heatseeking missile that didn't give a damn about the radar-reflective characteristics of an aircraft.

    Nuke Zone Douglass, Keith 1998

  • Another MiG had been hanging back throughout those repeated vertical scissors, waiting for a chance to fire, and when Tombstone had broken left, he'd given the guy a perfect shot with a heatseeking AA-8 Aphid.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • All around, little braziers of peat burned brightly, sizzling constantly as the heatseeking suckers left the Vaqs and gathered to die in the fire.

    Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

  • British officials say they are concerned in particular about heatseeking man-portable air defence systems Manpads, such as SA7 shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, getting into the wrong hands.

    The Guardian World News Richard Norton-Taylor 2011

  • This site will be used mostly by heatseeking nerds.

    Daring Fireball John Gruber 2010

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