Those are some powerful missiles to take down a big ass plane and accurate.![]()
On July 3, 1988 an Iranian airliner traveling from Tehran to Dubai was mistaken for a fighter jet and shot down by two RIM-66 Standard MR (SM-2MR) medium-range surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes (CG-49), a U.S. Navy Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser. All 290 civilians died.