You just shot a Sparrow missile into a bunch of tinsel.
Tombstone decided to stay with the Sparrow missiles.
Unfortunately, the Sparrow missiles already launched could not tell that Dao had broken off the engagement.
On 15 April, an Israeli Blue Sparrow missile was test launched.
The Sparrow missile hit its target about 12 miles away.
At 10 nmi (19 km), he launched a second Sparrow missile, but it also failed to track its target.
The American reinforcements were just coming into range for their radar-homing Sparrow missiles.
In a moment eight Sparrow missiles were diving toward the Fulcrums.
Woods's thumb quickly slipped to the round weapon selection button on the stick and moved it to select Sparrow missiles.
This is a casing from a Sparrow missile.