kinetic kill
n.— «We accomplished that goal 25 years ago. It was a kinetic kill, as they call it. It did not use lasers. There are ways to blunt that.» —“Sens. Biden, Levin on ‘FNS’” Fox News Jan. 22, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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