Sentences with phrase «of air combat»

It is best known as home to Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, which occupies more than 3,300 acres in the city and serves as home to the 4th Fighter Wing of the Air Combat Command and the 916th Air Refueling Wing.

On the wall was this massive diagram of a air combat engagement, with trees and trees of events.

Another game that tries to hit it big with a license tie in is Flyboys Squadron, the game supposedly based on the film is not much in the realm of air combat sims.

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The subject of air combat has been the subject of a heated debate among fans of Battlefront, with DICE adamant that the much - loved Space Battles wouldn't be coming to their version of Battlefron... [Read More]

Developed by Airtight Games, which includes much of the team behind Crimson Skies, Dark Void is an intriguing combination of air combat and on - foot third - person action.

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Not exact matches

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.

«The trajectory that I've seen from footage of reported Syrian SAMs don't match up with what I'd expect to see for intercept attempts against low - flying cruise missiles,» Justin Bronk, an air - combat expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told Business Insider.

«The Russian military in Syria has air - defense systems theoretically capable of shooting down US Tomahawk missiles,» Justin Bronk, an air - combat expert at the Royal United Services Institute, told Business Insider.

«Our combat - hardened aircrews are at the tip of the spear for applying airpower against our nation's enemies,» said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein.

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.

However, the low altitude flight profile of an attacking Tomahawk, its ability to use terrain masking for cover and concealment and its relatively small size, significantly smaller than a manned combat aircraft, make it a difficult target for even the most advanced air defense systems.

«I don't open anything I don't recognize,» said Joseph Barnard, who headed the personnel recovery branch of the Air Force's Air Combat Command.

Dubbed Warthog, Hog or just Hawg, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the «airplane built around the GAU - 8 Avenger 30 - mm hydraulically driven seven - barrel Gatling - type cannon» to fight the Soviet tanks in the European battlefields during the Cold War, is considered one of the most durable and lethal combat plane in the CAS (Close Air Support) mission.

Indeed, thanks to the Military Personnel Exchange Program, the U.S. Air Force has the opportunity to swap service members with an allied nation military: for this reason, whilst «Pinna», from an AMX A-11A Ghibli experience with the 132 ° Gruppo (Squadron), flies with the 74th FS, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Joe «Slap» Goldsworthy, an A-10 Thunderbolt II pilot with more than 2,700 flight hours of experience, is assigned to the 132 ° Gruppo and flies the Ghibli (even in combat).

It is a one of a kind combat plane: every single part of the Warthog is designed for Close Air Support.

7th Infantry Division Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division board CH - 47 Chinook helicopters piloted by 1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment, 16th Combat Aviation Brigade aviators during an air assault attack as part of the inaugural I Corps exercise Courage Ready 18 - 01 hosted by U.S. Army Alaska on U.S. Army Garrison - Alaska training lands near Fort Greely, Alaska, April 25.

The Royal Canadian Navy (the «Royal» was restored to the naval and air elements of the Canadian forces this year, 45 years after the Canadian military ditched many of its historical symbolic associations with the Crown) has just 8,500 personnel and about 20 combat vessels, yet is tasked to exercise sovereignty over three coastlines and is facing major procurement challenges with regard to replacement of its 40 year old supply ships, plus new combat vessels.

... Early polls for the Aug. 28 primary show Arpaio grabbing between one - third and one - fifth of the electorate, behind the establishment - backed front - runner, Rep. Martha McSally, a former Air Force combat pilot, and ahead of another conservative insurgent, state Sen. Kelli Ward -LSB-.]

The idea of making discriminations in combat, so central to Western just - war thought, was jettisoned completely in the style of air war fought in World War II.

In fact, Russell thinks that the death of Whitehead's younger son, Eric, in air combat in 1918, significantly shifted his views: «The pain of this loss had a great deal to do with turning his thoughts, to philosophy and with causing him to seek ways of escaping from belief in a merely mechanistic universe.»

We danced hard, sweat pouring off of us, the air conditioning not nearly strong enough to combat the heat and dozens of bodies packed together in a small space.

Even now, they're mainly just Air Combat Controllers, directing aircraft as they strike, instead of striking themselves.

Soldiers are responsible for integrating all air defense detection assets and firing units, maintaining tactical computer data links / networks that provide situational awareness, communication of detected threats throughout the air defense network, and serves as an air defense liaison to other services in all combat environments involving air defense.

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Just as in air combat, «speed is life» in online communications — if you wait a couple of days (or sometimes, a couple of hours), the critical moment will pass.

«Nowhere is the problem of mass more relevant than to the issue of combat air capability.

Marine Jonathan Wigley, 21, was fatally wounded on December 5th 2006 when two US F18s providing combat air support «misidentified and strafed a friendly position», according to the board of inquiry report published today.

The neglect then of these key C4ISR assets, then — which as «enablers» play a vital role in todays information - age warfare is a worrying development — especially for country whose air force has been championing «Combat ISTAR».

Speaking as a Guest Lecturer at the Air War College (AWC) in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, Mr. Yushau Shuaib, the brain behind the 2016 Global Award winner in Crisis Communication and expert in social media, pointed out that the battle ground has shifted from physical combat to Cyberspace where social media is the tool of engagement.

A statement confirming the deployment, signed by the Director of Airforce Public relations, Air Commodore Dele Alonge said, «In a renewed drive to crush the fighting will of the Boko Haram Terrorist (BHT) group, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has deployed additional combat platforms to North East Nigeria in support of the ongoing counter-insurgency operation codenamed «OPERATION LAFIYA DOLE».

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has put in place a joint operation of the army and air force to combat incidences of cattle rustling in the Kamuku Forest in the Northwest parts of the country which has so far routed out daredevil cattle...

This is why the logic of an extended air campaign is mission creep and western boots on the ground — whatever the Prime Minister may say now about keeping British combat troops out of the way — are a real possibility.

The Nigerian Air Force, has charged its officers on the importance of active training ahead of the 2018 Inter Command Combat Sports competition, scheduled to hold from April 1 to April 7 in Uyo, Akwa Ibom.

A logistic base used by members of the Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT) group has been destroyed by the Nigerian Air Force Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UAV)

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Monday unveiled its new Base in Kerang, Plateau with the commissioning of newly constructed office and residential accommodations for the 205 Combat Search and Rescue Group (CSARG).

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

The scientists expect further warming in the Arctic as levels of greenhouse gases will continue to increase and aerosol particle emissions will likely decrease to combat air pollution in different parts of the world.

Many are poor with limited access to air conditioning and other infrastructure to combat the health risks of rising temperatures.

They should also ensure that they take their prescribed medication for primary or secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, which will help to combat the potential effects of air pollution exposure.

They've been in combat since the 1990s in most parts of the navy and air force and in 70 per cent of the British army.

To combat the problem the first time around, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency passed the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, which cut sulfur emissions from power plants by 59 percent from 1990 to 2008.

Deep in the bowels of state government bureaucracies such as the California Air Resources Board (ARB)-- responsible for implementing much of the state's program to combat climate change — new rules are being set, rules that may one day extend from the west coast across the U.S..

He attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, became an Air Force pilot who flew 66 combat missions in Korea and earned a Ph.D. in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

To combat the effects, diving mammals that reach depths of over 1000 metres, such as elephant seals and sperm whales, allow their ribcage and lungs to collapse, squeezing the air out.

In other world news a 70 - year - old pilot in Croatia completed the first underground descent in a hot - air balloon; Brazil let loose batches of 10,000 mosquitoes to combat dengue; and all universities are now free in Germany, plus more.

December 19, 2017 — NIH findings with potential for enhancing human health include understanding how dietary factors influence disease risk, combatting the epigenetic effects of outdoor air pollution, and methods to detect prions in blood and skin.

For a recent dinner out, I added a sleeveless lace blouse with the most adorable bow tie at the neckline, a pair of killer heels, and threw on a blazer to combat the chilly breeze in the nighttime air.