Sentences with phrase «bombing mission of»

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U.S. military fighter - attack jets, bombers and drones have dropped more than 67,000 bombs since the 2014 start of Operation Inherent Resolve, the Defense Department's mission against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, according to information provided by Air Forces Central Command.

While the Navy's F / A -18 Super Hornets actually flew the most combat missions, the Air Force's F - 15Es dropped the highest number of bombs, releasing more than one in five of the total amount, according to AFCENT.

Although the payload may vary according to the type of mission the RAF Tornado GR4s have often carried a mixed load out with a single rack of three Brimstones and two Paveway IV 226 kg bombs along with the Rafael Litening III targeting pod.

Haley cited reports of Russians bombing medical clinics and hospitals while declaring the strikes successful missions against terrorist targets.

The «Bones» have been supporting the CBP mission since Aug. 6, 2016, when the first B - 1s, belonging to the 28th Bomb Wing from Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, deployed to Guam, for the first time in a decade, to replace the B - 52s and deter North Korea taking part in a significant number of «shows of force» over the Korean Peninsula.

But a British flying officer, David Walker, in a conversation with a Catholic priest during World War II asked: «You know, padre, on our aircraft one of our crew members is a Catholic, and you bless him before we go off on bombing missions over Germany.

Would David Cameron and Philip Hammond have ever succeeded in convincing the House of Commons to extend bombing into Syria in that crucial debate on 2nd December 2015 if both had not used the key parts of their opening and closing speeches respectively to remind the house that the purpose of the mission was to cut off «the head of the snake in Raqqa?»

Because if you think you're gonna go and do these precision strikes on North Korea where they have hidden — they have it on mobile sites — you know, they have the experience of surviving an indiscriminate US bombing campaign, do you think — and they have witnessed what has happened to Libya, what has happened to Iraq, do you think that — you know we think that we have another thing coming in terms of thinking that it would be a stealth mission — and so there would be a counter strike: There's 87 US bases, there are 30,000 US troops in South Korea.

Set in 1942, the life of an actress and her young RAF bomber pilot husband are thrown into disarray by a reunion with her ex lover and Hollywood heart - throb, who arrives as an urgent bombing mission over Germany is ordered.

LONDON — Mayor Bloomberg went on a fact - finding mission in London yesterday in the wake of the thwarted Times Square bombing, visiting centers where experts monitor a vast network of security cameras — one of the largest in the world.

United Nation's experts on counter terrorism have revealed that scores of the young girls Boko Haram sends out on suicide bombing missions in Nigeria and neighbouring...

This shift in attitudes may be reflected in the UK parliament's recent decision, following the November attacks in Paris, to approve bombing missions in Syria — a reversal of its decision in 2013.

Such mission - focused labs led to major technical and scientific strides in fields such as nuclear power, advanced materials, and supercomputing that came out of the atom bomb and space programs.

Far from a «mission to bomb the moon,» LCROSS involved two complementary pieces of hardware — a spent Centaur rocket as an impactor that produced a towering debris plume, and a sophisticated shepherding spacecraft that trailed it to sniff out water in the plume before crashing into the moon as well four minutes later.

According to an article by Post in eJournal USA, Palestinian suicide bomb commanders have told their recruits: «You have a worthless life ahead of you, you can do something significant with your life, you will be enrolled in the hall of martyrs...» The bombers themselves then embrace the larger aims of their mission at great personal cost.

While NASA does plan to send missions to Europa, as Bill Nye the Science Guy explains here, the recent discovery makes likely our ability to investigate Europa's water without bombing or drilling through miles and miles of ice.

In missions ranging from Madrid to Marbella, Torrente must complete a variety of tasks such as escorting an important client, deactivating bombs, and protecting beauty queens, generally with chaotic and bloody results.

He also reported on the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the Los Angeles Northridge earthquake, the Branch Davidian raid near Waco, Texas, Hurricanes Andrew and Hugo and NASA's shuttle missions.

It is the story of politics on the small Pacific island of Tinian where the Enola Gay launched for its mission to bomb Hiroshima.

Initially planned as a «capture» mission between the U.K. and U.S., the operation is amended when an on - the - ground agent (Barkhad Abdi) sees one of the targets, Aisha Al Hady (Lex King), preparing for a suicide bombing.

After their first mission with James, when he blindsides them by setting off a diversionary smoke bomb, Eldridge reminds the fuming Sanford that they'll be rid of James after 39 days.

Bomb Boos have so far only made appearances in two galaxies: the Ghostly Galaxy; during the missions Beware of Bouldergeist and Bouldergeist's Daredevil Run and in the Boss Blitz Galaxy; during the missions Throwback Throwdown and Throwback Throwdown Speed Run.

The normally excellent Eddie Marsan is underused, Stephen Graham doesn't really do anything except drink cocktails and Ray Winstone's hugely stereotypical Lahndahn mob boss is on some kind of mission to see how many c - bombs he can drop — the answer being lots.

So a squad of assassins (known as Mossad) led by Avner (Eric Bana) and including sharpshooters Steve (Daniel Craig), Carl (Ciarán Hinds), and Hans (Hanns Zischler) and bomb - maker / diffuser Robert (Mathieu Kassovitz) were tasked with carrying out the highly risky mission, unforeseen challenges and implications lurking around every corner.

The single player experience will treat players to a variety of mission objectives such as bombing runs to taking out enemies below.

The Oscar - winning wartime documentary The Memphis Belle (1944), directed by famed William Wyler (then a Lieutenant Colonel) and released by the War Department, presented real - life footage of dozens of Allied bombing missions by the Flying Fortress» B - 17 bomber during the war.

A mission to reignite the giant life source has mysteriously failed and it is now up to a second ship, Icarus II, to get the job done and save the planet by dropping a giant bomb on the surface of the sun.

Before that can happen, Frank is taken into custody and brought into a top - secret facility where they ask him about an old mission from the Cold War in which he participated involving a top - secret bomb (Lots of things are «top secret» here) under the Kremlin.

When the mission goes spectacularly wrong, the crew are divided on a strange planet and face the eerily familiar wrath of Krall (Idris Elba)-- a being who is collecting parts of an ancient bomb with one goal in mind: destroy the Federation.

When she's sent on a covert mission into Cold War Berlin, she must use all of the spycraft, sensuality and savagery she has to stay alive in the ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double - crossing hives of traitors.

As an official member of S.C.A.T. (Sega Control Attack Team) your mission's a time - bomb.

Fryer: My operational tours in the Air Force included 161 combat missions in Southeast Asia in the F - 4 Phantom and command of a B - 52 bomb squadron and an F - 16 tactical fighter wing.

In spite of the massive destruction inflicted on the city, the bombing did not have the impact that was intended and the mission is generally considered a failure.

He may not have even wanted to — choosing to be a tail gunner — exposed, alone and watchful for his skipper and his crew through night after night of bombing missions.

Doster, whom he might have loved the most, is being shredded again and again by a roadside bomb on a mission Adam was supposed to have been on, too, and after Doster is declared dead another soldier is saying to him, «None of this shit would have happened if you were there.»

This tale of a daredevil mission to slow Germany's World War II progress toward an atomic bomb could only be conjured by a master storyteller.

It is amazing just how highly trained these dogs are — they can parachute out of airplanes, they were used during the mission to capture Osama Bin Laden and they can sniff out bombs like the ones at the Boston Marathon.

The disabled bomb sniffing dog will soon be traveling to San Antonio, TX to his new home with Louisa Kastner, co-founder of Mission K9 Rescue.

Areas with long lines of sight favor assault rifles, but close quarters work is the home of the SMG, while choosing to go with minimal armor can helpful in blitzing through a stronghold before the enemy have much time to react, vitally important in drug busts or bomb defusing missions.

-, supervised by renowned Final Fantasy series composer Nobuo Uematsu - features a collection of songs from the series played on a grand piano by pianist Hiroyuki Nakayama - songs include «Ami» and «The Man with the Machine Gun» from Final Fantasy VIII, «Opening — Bombing Mission» and «Cosmo Canyon» from Final Fantasy VII, «Dancing Mad» from Final Fantasy VI, and «Melodies of Life» from Final Fantasy IX and more - locations include:

You'll play a member of a tank crew in one segment, stealthily attack enemy strongholds under the leadership of Lawrence of Arabia in the next and run bombing missions for the Royal Airforce in another.

These bombs made the second mission a lot easier for me because of all the ground units that need to be destroyed.

Mission objectives include bombing and strafing raids against facilities and convoys, protection of ground troops against enemy aircraft and, of course, action - packed dogfights against enemy aces.

The main campaign is split into two acts, each with a set of missions that range from destroying other aircrafts, bombing ships and bases, protecting a key location or escorting other aircraft to a destination.

A New Bomb mission been announced and will arrive on the 27th of January, and the best thing is that it's free.

The teenager accused of plotting a bombing attack on his school in Albany, Ore., wanted his car stereo to blare the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soundtrack — specifically, the song from the infamous «No Russian» mission — as he carried out his assault, according to his handwritten plans, police there said.

Every kill you make and mission you complete funnels back into an incredibly robust unlock system, granting persistent currency on a range of planes with different stats, an array of weapons from missiles to bombs, Stand - Off Dispensers and lasers, plus upgrade parts to tune your performance.

He had few complaints with the album, only describing «Opening ~ Bombing Mission» and «Assault of the Silver Dragons» as «bland», but still worth listening to.

A few missions here and there earned me a measly $ 12,000, spent thirty minutes trying to complete a bank heist thanks to a lower - level player continously getting himself killed, forcing the lot of us to restart, and being chased around Vinewood by some lunatic in a Overflod Autarch throwing sticky bombs like they were candy on Halloween, having my Dewbauchee JB 700 blown up several times.

Breach and Clear sets you in charge of a four - man elite special ops team tasked with various close - quarter missions of sweeping and killing, bomb defusal, and self - extraction.