Sentences with phrase «air weapons in»

Assemble and analyze multi-source operational intelligence of surface, sub-surface, and air weapons in support of intelligence briefings, reporting, and analytical programs

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However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

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President Donald Trump recently launched a salvo of 59 Tomahawk guided - missiles from two Navy destroyers at a Syrian air base in response to Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons on his own people.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces launched air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people, aiming to degrade its chemical weapons capabilities in the biggest intervention yet in the conflict by Western powers.

The Trump administration is likely trying to get broader support from allies for air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack, says Victor Kattan of the Middle East Institute.

The Georgia Nuclear Aircraft Laboratory was built in the 1950s as a radiation testing ground by the Air Force and weapons manufacturer Lockheed.

Instead, like most large weapons, including nuclear bombs, it detonated in the air moments before impact.

U.S., British and French forces pounded Iran's ally Syria with air strikes early on Saturday in retaliation for a suspected April 7 chemical weapons attack, which they blame on Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's government.

It is likely more modern stand - off weapons like the UK's MBDA Storm Shadow and French SCALP - EG cruise missile along with the new AGM - 158 JASSM - ER (Joint Air - to - Surface Standoff Missile Extended Range) were highly effective in Friday night's strike on Syria by UK, France and the U.S..

Justin Bronk, an air - combat expert at the Royal United Services Institute, said chemical weapons killed fewer people than regular bombs but did so in a «particularly terrifying» way.

Based on intelligence gathered by Syrian and Russian air defense crews from the U.S. strike exactly a year and a week ago on Shayrat Airbase in Syria, air defense crews were likely well - drilled and prepared to meet a U.S. - led attack on their claimed chemical weapons facilities.

That's why these small guided missiles have become the RAF weapons of choice since the Air War over Libya back in 2011.

The strike by the US, the UK, and France in Syria on Friday involved 105 missiles fired from air and sea to rain down thousands of pounds of explosives on three targets suspected of being chemical weapons facilities — but Israeli officials cited in a recent news report characterized it as a failure.

Retired Gen. Roger A. Brady, who was responsible for American nuclear weapons in Europe as part of his past role as commander of the U.S. Air Force there, turned to Apple support this year when he noticed something suspicious on his computer.

Defense spending aside, transatlantic rifts could also occur should Trump continue to make critical foreign policy decisions without first consulting allies (as in the April 7 air strike against Syria in response to a chemical - weapons attack) or if he presses NATO allies to make stronger military contributions in Syria or Afghanistan.

Echoing then - Defense Secretary Ashton Carter's remarks last month, Goldfein said most view the January strike in Libya as a B - 2 strike, but forget that its journey and mission were supplemented by Air Force tankers, maintainer airmen and weapons loaders, among other «family of systems.»

The Lancer — which carries 75,000 pounds, roughly 5,000 pounds more in weapons than the B - 52 — deployed the most weapons of any aircraft involved in the campaign before its departure, according to statistics provided to Air Force Times last March.

On Tuesday, at an annual military parade in Tehran, Iran put on display new S - 300 air defense missile system, as well as other weapons seen under banners calling for «Death to Israel» in Persian.

new S - 300 air defense missile system, as well as other weapons seen under banners calling for «Death to Israel» in Persian.

Intresting, I believe in all states have regulations for what can and has been used as a dangerous weapon, altough not designed to be, the automobile We have age limits, proficiency standards (tests), regulation for safe use (speed limits, seat belts, air bags, etc.) and licences that can be revoked.

However, it is true that when men are in foxholes and their lives are on the line they all want a good weapon, ammunition, buddies they can count on, and air support, even the most devote believers, because deep down they know what's going to keep them alive, and it isn't God.

In 2011, the group complained about an Air Force training presentation that used religion to teach the ethics and morality of using nuclear weapons.

Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted there was no alternative to the air - strikes, following a chemical weapons attack in Douma last week that killed 75 people, including children.

The briefing, taught for nearly 20 years by military chaplains at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, is intended to train Air Force personnel to consider the ethics and morality of launching nuclear weapons - the ultimate doomsday machine.

Despite the slogan («Peace Is Our Profession») of the Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force, which has been in charge of strategic nuclear weapons as well as the high altitude bombing of Vietnam, having more and fancier weapons will not make us more safe, and these weapons will not prevent war or save lives.

I explained they were harmless, and essentially highly compressed air slipping over a structure moving at greater than the speed of sound... or an explosive wave expansion that moves out and then rebounds in... and so, the compressed waves move into our area from the weapons test area, and shake the glass windows, and we hear the sonic «sound» (or the wave's double sound) and the vibrational aspect of the glass within the window.

A family that lost eight members in a shooting at a small Texas church earlier this month has filed a wrongful death claim against the US military, asserting the Air Force's negligence helped the gunman acquire his weapons.

It is games like this in which the talents of Giroud can be most useful, as we can use the width of the pitch and get balls in the box to exploit his size and power in the air, while his strength and ability as a target man to hold the ball up and bring other players around him into the game is a huge weapon.

I don't think he's a feature back (last year proved that), and I'm not advocating that the Cardinals turn him into one — plus the results don't lie with Chris Johnson — but Ellington is such a dangerous weapon on the ground and through the air that it's been a little odd to see him become little more than a player that comes in to spare the starter a few times a game.

The army and navy in all honesty we did not know he held a 3rd dan black belt in sho rea, he had been trained in air born and air assault and nuclear weapons and their security on trident submarines so when somebody attacked him or use a weapon to intimidate him he considered only one option, deadly force had just been authorized.

BASC fears changes to air weapon licensing in Scotland will place an unnecessary time and cost burden on the police

Dr Shedden added: «While we recognise that a petition may have secured 20,000 signatories in favour of this ban, we would remind the Scottish government that an even larger petition urged them not to introduce air weapon licensing.

In the specific case of Germany, they are still bound by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Some examples of the limitations set: Armed Forces of no more than 370,000 personnel - of whom at most 345,000 were to be in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -.In the specific case of Germany, they are still bound by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Some examples of the limitations set: Armed Forces of no more than 370,000 personnel - of whom at most 345,000 were to be in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -.in the Army and Air Force No manufacture, possession or control of NBC weapons Full application of the Nuclear Non -...

The S - 300 sale is potentially a threat to intervention by air in the Syrian Civil War by the U.S. or its allies (the U.K. and France, for example, also participated in the chemical weapons retaliation strike in April of 2018, and Turkish aircraft have intervened in parts of the Syrian Civil War as well, for example, shooting down a Russian jet fighter which was intruding into its air space).

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D - NY) is standing behind President Donald Trump's missile strike of a Syrian air base last week that was believed to be used for a chemical weapons attack in which innocent Syrian citizens were killed.

About 60 U.S. Tomahawk missiles, fired from warships in the Mediterranean Sea, targeted an air base in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack that American officials believe Syrian government aircraft launched with a nerve agent, possibly sarin.

Sen. Charles Schumer says he is supportive of President Donald Trump's decision to strike a Syrian air base that was allegedly involved in a chemical weapons attack.

Cuomo has his own weapon, the Committee to Save New York, a group of business leaders and real estate developers, who have in the past promised to air their own counter attack ads.

Emphasizing that Tuesday's incident in which the Air Force component of the Operation Lafiya Dole based on intelligence that the terrorists had infiltrated Rann with intent to attack, deployed rockets, he regretted that the weapons mistakenly hit IDPs camps in the town, killing over 50 civilians and wounding many others.

The level of expertise needed to build a radio is just a little less than that required to build a nuclear weapon, they argued, so just as a civilization starts tuning up its transmitters, some internal spat causes it to go off the air in a storm of mushroom clouds.

In attacking the air - blurred starlight, his weapon of choice will be a run - of - the - mill adaptive optics system augmented by another more «extreme» version that uses 2,000 computer - controlled actuators to correct atmospheric distortions by flexing a deformable mirror more than 3,600 times per second.

John Corley, director of USAF's Capabilities Integration Directorate, used the same phrase to describe the weapon's benefits at an Air Armament Symposium in Florida in October 2007 (see page 15, pdf format).

The testing of nuclear weapons in the 1950s spewed a lot of radioactive carbon 14 into the air.

In October 2014 the U.S. Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle — 3 returned from a mission where some analysts believe it was testing technologies for hypersonic missiles — weapons capable of hitting any target on Earth within an hour — and, possibly, techniques for repairing or disabling satellites.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

When chemical weapons are in the air or lingering on the ground, skin cells are exposed first.

At least 100,000 military veterans who served in the 1990 - 1991 Gulf War were exposed to chemical weapons, released into the air after the United States bombed an ammunition depot in Khamisiyah, Iraq.

Crime and intrigue permeated the air at the Mary and Jeff Bell Library on April 11, as students were welcomed by a gruesome scene: weapons, blood and personal effects scattered across the ground and a woman — dead — at the table in the center of it all.

Based on the hit animated television show produced by Hasbro Studios and currently airing on The Hub television network in the U.S., the game lets fans play as their favorite AUTOBOT characters and embark on an action - packed adventure to save the earth from the evil MEGATRON and his new secret weapon.