When the Soviets shot down Francis Gary Powers' U-2, they did it by ripple-firing all of their SA-2s at that site, without having a solid lock-on, and hoped that one of them would get a lock just long enough to guide the missile. It was basically a lucky shot. It only damaged one of the horizontal stabilizers, but the U-2 is such a tricky plane to fly (especially back then) that even that small amount of damage was enough to tear the stabilizer off and bring the plane down.
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