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Outrun the Fireball: The Solarbabies do this at the end when Bohdai decides to destroy the facility by exploding.
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The actual win condition is to destroy everything else except the chronosphere, after which you are treated to a cutscene of the device exploding anyway.
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Modern missile interceptors like the Kinetic Energy Interceptor and THAAD rely on physically striking their targets to destroy them, rather than exploding.
Source: Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
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Exploding and Destroy. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/destroy/exploding
Destroy & Exploding. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/destroy/exploding>.
Exploding or Destroy. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/destroy/exploding.
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