lookdown shoot-down

lookdown shoot-down
The ability to acquire low-level hostile aircraft and destroy them by launching air-to-air missiles while flying at high altitude. The normal vertical separation may exceed 20,000 ft (6 km).

Aviation dictionary. 2014.

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