The exhaust trail of an AIM-54A Phoenix missile leads up to its impact with a North American QF-86F Sabre pilotless target aircraft during a missile firing exercise over the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training Center off Puerto Rico. Wreakage from the drone is falling away to the left. VF-143 was assigned to Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69).
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1984-08-16
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