mock attack

That Moscow fears just such an outcome is evident from the mock attack it staged on the Vardø facility in 2018, sending 11 Su-24 supersonic bombers on a direct path toward the island.

After such tests, as historian Stephen Weart recalled in his book "Nuclear Fear," “The press reported with ghoulish precision how many millions of Americans ‘died’ in each mock attack.”

He reared back suddenly and pounced in mock attack.

The climax of the show was the “Attack on a Settler’s Cabin,” during which Indians who once had slaughtered soldiers and civilians alike staged a mock attack on a cabin full of white settlers, only to be vanquished yet again by Buffalo Bill and a company of cowboys firing blanks.

“Push left,” she said after the squad completed its mock attack and assembled around her, gulping from canteens as they awaited feedback.