The Airbus A300 was shot down by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile launched from U.S. Naval cruiser the USS ... ship's Aegis Combat System, however, later demonstrated that the radar on the ...

On 3 July 1988, a sophisticated US Navy warship, the USS Vincennes, shot down an Iranian civilian airliner flying over the Persian Gulf. All 290 on board the aircraft were killed, among them 66 ...