Sentences with phrase «as fighter planes»

A whole array of enemies are waiting to overtake the allies, ranging basic infantry to heavily armored tanks, as well as fighter planes and bombers.

In addition to the 30 vehicles introduced in the original game such as fighter planes, tanks, and aircraft carriers, players can operate 16 new vehicles including the Horton HO 229 «Flying

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«Our fighter planes took normal tactical measures, identifying the models of the Chinese planes and flying aerial surveillance until they left,» the South Korean military said, as quoted by Reuters.

That fateful day, it was Somalian fighters known as the Janjaweed who attacked their plane with an anti-aircraft gun, sending them crashing into a ground ambush.

ST. LOUIS — An old fighter jet being refurbished at a hangar in Missouri is the first of several planes being sent to the Boeing facility as the Pentagon spends the biggest budget in its history.

RAF planes are to take aid to Christians stuck up a mountain in Iraq trying to escape Islamist fighters as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, appeals for...

I wandered into Reliant Center and listened to Duran Duran's sound check, during which they played «Wild Boys» over and over again at approximately the same volume as a F - 14 fighter plane taking off.

The United States has historically backed Israel in order to maintain some control over the region; virtually everything else in the area is anti-U.S. So Israel was convenient as a kind of base for the U.S. - it could send fighter planes to Israel instead of having them fly from inefficiently far away; and plus, if things got really hairy in the middle east, Israel could do some of the actual fighting too.

McSally wants to preserve funding in the defense budget for the Air Force's A-10 Warthog fleet, the very planes she commanded as the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat.

In Burkina Faso the United States Military base acts as a hub of a U.S spying network in the region, with spy planes departing from their base to fly over Mali, Mauritania and the Sahara, where they search for fighters from al - Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

The film opens on the island of Themyscira, a paradise island created by the god Zeus and hidden from the real world by a protective shield, and the film stays there for a while as we follow Diana from curious little girl to fully trained warrior princess but once Steve Trevor's fighter plane crashes there and Diana realises there is a war being fought in world she does not know of that is not too far away then we swiftly get brought into London in 1918 and this shift from fantasy into a «real world» scenario gives the film a greater sense of depth, and when combined with characters that you actually care about then Wonder Woman is head and shoulders above all of the other DCEU movies on the strength of that alone.

After his short - lived career as a world - famous racing plane comes to an end, Dusty takes to the skies as an aerial fire fighter.

Monitor film critic Peter Rainer called «Wind,» which was billed as Miyazaki's final film and the story of which is partly based on fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi's life, «visually as beautiful as anything he's ever done,» though he noted that «the collision between poetic fancifulness and grim reality, between peace and war, never falls into focus.»

Miyazaki's magnum opus, a bittersweet biopic about the cursed dreams of Zero fighter - plane designer Jiro Horikoshi, has been read as something of a self - portrait, but The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness suggests that we don't know the half of it.

In Jiro's case, these beautiful things — most notably his design for the Zero fighter plane, which became one of Japan's most effective weapons in World War II — were requisitioned as implements of death, an irony that suffuses every frame of this dark and difficult film, which, it should be stressed, is not at all for young children.

Soldiers sitting like ducks on a beach as a German fighter plane dives menacingly out of the sky.

As World War I unfolds, Diana Prince / Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) lives on an Amazonian island, cut off from the outside world until fighter pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) crashes his plane there.

The windshield is quite wide at the A-pillars, giving the impression of a spacious cockpit as compared to the tight fighter - plane canopies of current Le Mans racers.

Originally founded in the Netherlands in 1880 as a producer of carriages, Spyker pivoted to create fighter planes at the outset of the World War I but eventually went under in 1925.

According to Great American Cars of the 50s by Richard M. Langworth and Chris Poole, «VentiPorts» were inspired by World War II fighter planes, such as the P - 51 Mustang.

As the daughter of a flight school director, she has been flying since she was 12, and after three months with ATA, she can deliver new and repaired Spitfire fighter planes to airfields without batting an eyelash.»

I'll never forget the Japanese - American vet who grew teary as he described the day that, unknowingly, he watched his own brother — an airman for the Japanese Empire — being shot down in a fighter plane overhead.

The sounds of gunfire and fighter planes are as normal to Farah as the sounds of traffic or children playing are to a schoolgirl in America.

Enlist the efforts of chaps such as the dashing RAF fighter plane pilot Roald Dahl to wine and dine their way into Washington DC's inner circle, plant specific (sympathetic to Britain) information into hands that would, in turn, work it into newspapers and magazines, then deliver American intelligence back to the British leadership.

There are three segments in the game where you play as a character other than Red, two of which are simply vehicle - based missions that have you driving a tank and piloting a fighter plane respectively.

Players can also choose to pilot some of the most iconic American and Japanese fighter planes from the army or navy's aviation units, while completing quests that take them through various historical battles such as Pearl Harbor, Midway and Guadalcanal.

The series» lauded focus on multiplayer benefited from this, too, as skilled fighters could intentionally steer battle planes together to participate in combo maneuvers.

The free top down shooter lets you take control of a fighter Ace plane from England as you battle the evil reign of Hitler and his Aces of the Luftwaffe.

As usual, the game features weapons and vehicles accurate to the timescale, including the fighter planes and tanks that heralded a new era of mechanised warfare.

Arcangel created Mig 29 Soviet Fighter Plane and Clouds by altering an early 90's video game in which the user played as a Soviet fighter plane embarking on bombing missions in the Middle Plane and Clouds by altering an early 90's video game in which the user played as a Soviet fighter plane embarking on bombing missions in the Middle plane embarking on bombing missions in the Middle East.

The film Things We Count pans slowly across the retired fighter planes at an airplane graveyard in Arizona's Sonoran desert, as a voice counts them one by one in Kurdish, Turkish, and English.

Fiona Banner, the artist, dreamt up the installation as a way of asking why fighter planes were so glorified in mainstream culture.

Waiting to be shipped out, in a shed abutting the kitchen, her new commissions for Quack Quack, as the new Serpentine show is called, draw on memories from her time in Kensington as a child during the blitz, as well as observations of the park's present - day visitors — a mix of fighter planes, cavorting dogs and resting migrants.

Rosenquist took as his subject the F - 111 fighter bomber plane, the newest, most technologically advanced weapon in development at the time, and positioned it, as he later explained, «flying through the flak of consumer society to question the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising.»

, his famous 1963 picture of a fighter plane being shot by another, and Drowning Girl, both appropriated from contemporary comics, as well as the Artist's Studio series which saw him bring his graphic, pop style to his own surroundings and other real - life art works.

If the government spends $ 100 billion building fighter planes that don't work, the country is poorer by $ 100 billion, but if it simply gives the money to Halliburton or to the unemployed, then some are poorer and some richer, but the country as a whole is no poorer.