Sentences with phrase «fighter jets from»

To mark the arrival of the flame in Brazil, the flight was escorted by two impressive fighter jets from the Brazilian Air Force.

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has warned the National Assembly to halt any plan to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over the withdrawal of $ 462 million for the purchase of fighter jets from the United States, US.

However, the government says it remains committed to withdrawing Canadian fighter jets from Iraq and Syria, where they have been bombing ISIL targets for more than a year.

It also prompted the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to back away from a plan to buy fighter jets from Boeing.

Canada announced earlier this month that it would scrap a $ 5.2 billion purchase of new fighter jets from Boeing and purchase Australian jets instead.

A Russian interceptor has been scrambled to stop a rogue US fighter jet from actively interfering with an anti-terrorist operation, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

One of my favorites is the lesson in which Noden has students mimic a 126 - word sentence about the exhilaration of flying a fighter jet from Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff to describe an upcoming school dance, big game, first date, or anything else that is exciting in their lives.

The Vantage more than surges from the pit lane of the Algarve International Circuit in Portimão, Portugal — it deploys like a fighter jet from an aircraft carrier.

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F - 35 fighter jets to Taiwan, saying it would help it «remain a democracy» in the face of threats from China.

The pilot, Tammie Jo Shults, who used to fly US Navy fighter jets, guided the airplane, which took off from New York and was bound for Dallas, to a landing in Philadelphia.

And he vows to rebuild a U.S. military - from naval ships and jet fighters to the U.S. nuclear arsenal - that he insists has eroded under President Obama.

Britain on Wednesday scrambled RAF Typhoon fighter jets to escort a Ryanair flight from Lithuania after a hoax security alert.

The business won a new contract from Kuwait for 28 F - 18 fighter jets, as well as made further progress on its delayed KC - 46 program and completed the first power - on test of its Starliner spacecraft for NASA's commercial crew program.

«A Russian Su - 35 fighter jet, performing an air cover mission at an altitude of 10,000 meters, swiftly approached the F - 22 from the rear, forcing the American aircraft to leave the area.»

Those alloys, a series of chemicals limited in mineable concentration on Earth, are key to the production of many modern technologies, everything from smart phones to fighter jets.

The prototype of what is believed to be the China's second stealth fighter jet performed its maiden flight on Oct 31, when it took off at 10:32 AM Local Time from the runway of the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation facility.

Combined with an air assault from a US B - 1B Lancer bomber and UK and French fighter jets, the attack ended up looking considerably different from last year's punitive strike.

All of this is small beer compared to the massive costs of new F - 35 fighter jets alone, estimated at up to $ 30 billion, but for voters still reeling from a recession the Conservatives» offerings may be appealing.

Our technologies are used in aircraft ranging from the most used single aisle aircraft and the largest passenger planes in the world to business jets and the world's advanced 5th generation fighter aircraft.

But for some reason, the U.S. recently shot down a Syrian fighter jet, prompting warnings from Syria's leading allies, Russia and Iran.

Two weeks before the Liberals formally called for a reset of the fighter jet procurement process, representatives from Boeing and Dassault testified before the defence committee about their warplanes.

Later that day, fighter jets fly over the house and they learn from the radio that World War III has erupted.

The Pentagon said the attack involved fighter jets, bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from ships in the region.

The russians / soviets never had good fighter jets, and could never take air superiority from us.

Government minister have provided political legitimacy for the strikes, while UK made fighter jets have flown overhead and British bombs have been dropped from the skies.

'' It is also clear, as has been shown so far by the outcome of the panel probing past arms deals, that the purchase of substandard weapons apparently resulted from the massive corruption that enveloped the deals, the kind of horrifying graft that saw the purchase of refurbished choppers that lacked rotors, or fighter jets that could not be deployed to the theatre of war because they were not up to par.

A British marine killed in Afghanistan in December 2006 died because of friendly fire from a US fighter jet, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.

Military sources disclosed that the march into the dreaded forest is being led by heavy artillery gun fire with long range arty - guns softening the grounds while Nigerian Air Force fighter jets and gunships carry out pounding from the air.

Whether for supersonic fighter jets or commercial airliners, the aviation world has begun a quest for the fuel of the future, transitioning away from petroleum - derived JP - 8 and Jet A varieties to Fischer - Tropsch synthetics or biofuels.

You've done these vulcanoid surveys and studies of other asteroids, meteors, and comets from the backseat of a high - performance aircraft, like a WB - 57 or a F / A -18 Hornet fighter jet.

In 1959 and 1960, when the Air Force was testing ejection seat technology in jet fighters, Kittinger made three jumps from the stratosphere to try a parachute optimized for high - altitude bail - outs.

In the second video, captured by a different fighter jet under undisclosed circumstances, an object surrounded by a «glowing aura» seems to fly tilted against heavy headwinds in defiance of known principles of aerodynamics, accompanied by audible exclamations from the fighter jet's crew.

A report predicts fighter jocks may not need speedy, agile jet fighters because they could rely on long - range sensors, smart missiles and swarms of smart robotic machines to attack from afar

Through such evolutionary processes, a drug that targets telomerase could seem effective at first, only to be defeated by the cancer cell line if it can (for instance) more effectively break the drug down, or prevent the drug from entering its cells, or put out the biological equivalents of the «chaff» and flares that are used by fighter jets to ward off the targeting systems of hostile missiles.

The jet fighters arrived in Yokohama from the United States via aircraft carriers..

The latest from Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki looks astonishing but fails to face up sufficiently to the politics of its subject — genius fighter jet designer Jiro Horikoshi

With Training Day's Antoine Fuqua directing, everything is shaping up fairly plausibly until, suddenly and surely improbably, an unidentified plane isn't intercepted until it's just a mile from the centre of Washington DC, two state - of - the - art fighter jets are downed by machine guns and the Secret Service has to hold off the subsequent attack on the White House — codenamed Olympus — armed with nothing more than handguns.

Bogie is a WWII bomber pilot who goes from running a flight school to testing a top secret new fighter jet.

Speeding through an agricultural field of land at 150 mph, racing down a track to beat a fighter jet that's soaring in the clouds, or simply cruising around the awe - inspiring world of Horizon 2 gives me a refreshing feeling I haven't felt from the genre for years.

The 510 - hp 6.2 - liter V - 8 roars toward redline as coupe is launched forward like rocket from a fighter jet.

Although the pavement is narrow, bumpy, and dotted with blind crests, the 918 tracked with the precision of a fighter jet, clung like a magnet to the tarmac sprayed dark gray with mist from the Mediterranean Sea, and decelerated like an accordion, only to reach out for the next straight with expandable elasticity.

It's definitely not as wild as some of the spaceship - and fighter jet - like designs we've come to know from Lamborghini in recent years, but there's something familiar and yet refreshing about this new concept's synthesis of elegance and purposefulness.

Hyundai says that it took inspiration for the car's design from jet fighters and says it was made to look as if it were floating.

«Pilot» is a perfect word for this car — you're tucked into the supportive bucket seat, sitting upright and perfect distance from the steering wheel, shifter and pedals, directing this fighter jet of a sports car into one maneuver after another.

The A7's list of extras is long and tempting, with niceties ranging from front seats with ventilation and massaging functionality to a fighter - jet - style head - up display that projects pertinent driver information onto the windshield.

Like in a jet fighter, it displays important information directly in the driver's field of vision on the front windscreen, thus providing for clear legibility and ensuring that the driver is distracted less from the road ahead.

It now gets the large signature jet fighter grille from its bigger Lancer brother, alongside a...

The Hyundai N 2025 Vision Gran Turismo concept draws inspiration from aeronautics, employing a dynamic stance and with hints of a jet fighter design that blurs the line between air and asphalt.

The all - new Nissan Maxima borrows some performance technology from the mighty GT - R and looks the part with fighter jet inspired lines and a driver oriented cockpit that will take the boringness out of your morning commute.

The flat - bottomed steering wheel in the driver focused cockpit looks as though it was taken from a modern fighter jet, with buttons on top of buttons in various different colors.