Sentences with phrase «fighter planes based»

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On November 4, 1983, a member of a Muslim suicide squad attacked an Israeli compound in southern Lebanon with a truck bomb, killing more than 60 soldiers, The following day Israeli fighter planes bombed the base from which the truck might have come.

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.

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

Possible clues to the biological basis of these unusual states turned up in studies conducted in the late 1970s, when the Navy and the Air Force introduced a new generation of high - performance fighter planes that underwent extreme acceleration.

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.»

The film's hero is partially based on Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed the Zero fighter plane that figured in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Delivering three new multiplayer maps — Egypt, Dunkirk and V - 2 — and a brand new objective based War Mode in Operation Husky, allowing us to join the Allies in the invasion of Sicily, taking to the skies in a fighter plane in order to protect bomber squadrons, we can't fault the content additions found within this pack.

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.