While we've been talking, Mr Clever, I've targeted missiles on you!
In retaliation, Moscow threatened to target missiles at Eastern Europe.
Israeli vessels were "targeted by as many as 52 Soviet-made anti-ship missiles", but none hit their targets.
This improved accuracy was sought by the US military for the purpose of targeting intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Most were mainly symbolic, including the pledge by Beijing and Washington to stop targeting nuclear missiles at each other.
When it comes to targeting American nuclear missiles, the candidate, Shintaro Ishihara, wrote, "if one doesn't use Japanese semiconductors, one cannot guarantee precision."
The rationale for these programs was that the U.S. needed the capability to fight a nuclear war by targeting Soviet missiles.
We are told that we need the new bombers, the MX missile and other programs so that we can target Soviet mobile missiles.
But it is not in our interest to target such missiles.
To improve the ability of the Aegis to target incoming missiles, the Navy is turning to a very old piece of technology: the blimp.