land down

land down (third-person singular simple present lands down, present participle landing down, simple past and past participle landed down)

1. (military, transitive) To intercept (a missile) and bring it to ground before it reaches its target.
   • 2024 November 25th, Olena Mukhina, “Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian military airfield in Kursk Oblast with ATACMS missiles for first time”, in Euromaidan Press:

     According to him [scil. Ilya Tumanov], the airfield’s air defense systems managed to intercept only seven of the missiles, emphasizing that this term refers only to an attempt to land them down, not the interception of the missiles.