Sentences with phrase «of bomb disposal»

The Hurt Locker (# 1) This Iraqi war drama about a company of bomb disposal technicians recalls the best of classical Hollywood action cinema (i.e., Ford and Hawks), in spite of the near - constant use of handheld cameras, and offers an intriguing critique of masculinity besides.

Not exact matches

The airport closed Sunday night and all of Monday so Royal Navy bomb disposal experts could remove the device.

Fellow Massachusetts - based company iRobot — maker of the Roomba, but also more advanced projects like the PackBot bomb - disposal robot — comes to mind.

The brainchild of Danny Crossman, a British bomb disposal officer responsible for such lifesaving technologies as the bomb suit featured in the OscarTM - winning movie, The Hurt Locker, ShockboxTM consists of a miniature sensor with rechargeable battery, BluetoothTM wireless module and a sensor, which transmits data on hits to a player's helmet in real time to a smartphone, laptop or PDA on which the Shockbox app has been downloaded.

A former Army bomb disposal officer and business development executive, Crossman has been instrumental in the development of numerous life - saving technologies, including the bomb suit featured in the Oscar - winning movie, The Hurt Locker, Advanced Combat Helmet impact pads, roadside bomb jammers used by the United States Marine Corp, and, most recently, helmet impact sensors used by U.S. Army and USMC to help detect traumatic brain injury (TBI) in deployed soldiers and Marines.

Second, Trump's language suggests he believes that he can employ a surgical strike of targeting particular companies, while in reality, any tools at his disposal are more on the order of carpet - bombing entire industries.

Sidney village police, state police K - 9 unit and the Bomb Disposal unit responded to a reported sighting of 2 suspicious packages in the new Amphenol facility today in Sidney.

The National Academy of Sciences has given the nod to long - term disposal of spent fuel in canisters that will be sealed deep inside a mountain near the vast, remote Nevada Test Site, where hundreds of atomic bombs were once exploded.

Julie Carpenter at the University of Washington in Seattle has studied the way US military personnel interact with their bomb - disposal robots.

To protect people from these weapons, the U.S. military increasingly relies on robotic bomb detection and disposal units (in addition to the scores of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) overhead with reconnaissance and strike capabilities), creating life - and - death combat relationships between man and machine that will only deepen and proliferate over time.

Regardless of whether terrorists are sloppy or stupid, they do have a wide array of explosive tools at their disposal: from highly volatile chemical bombs manufactured from relatively common ingredients, such as the hexamethylene triperoxide diamine (HMTD) suspected in the foiled London terror plot, to the military grade plastic explosive Semtex.

From terrifying long distance swims across shark - infested waters to nerve - shredding bomb disposals at depths of up to 60 metres, the candidates will be pushed to their absolute limit.

In its bomb disposal sequences, Land of Mine is up there with The Hurt Locker and The Small Back Room.

Link has a wide range of abilities and tools at his disposal in addition to traditional weapons, with the ability to slow down time, freeze water or create bombs.

The nominees are Herman Yau's bomb disposal actioner Shock Wave, which is a fun old school Hong Kong film but not really a serious contender, Wilson Yip's Paradox, which is also quite a good action film (it may be part of the SPL series) and has a better chance but probably not, and Chasing the Dragon, which I haven't seen yet but also chases that early 90s Hong Kong vibe (it's kind of a remake of 1992 Best Film winner To Be Number One).

Scripted by Mark Boal, who in 2004 was embedded in Baghdad with a U.S. Army bomb squad, the film focuses on a three - man team of Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians whose job is to find and dispose of IEDs.

Sgt. Will James (Jeremy Renner) is a bomb disposal expert while on a tour of duty in Iraq.

Now, with the aid of infinite bombs at his disposal, the appropriately named «Bombslinger» is out for blood to avenge his deceased spouse.

It works for all breeds of dog, for pet dogs, and for all sports and activities, from obedience training to dogs for the disabled, from agility to military bomb disposal.

You'll frequently see piles of rusty shells by the roadside awaiting collection by the bomb disposal squad.

admittedly this actually ties in to the games single unique feature which we'll be getting to later, but it just doesn't make sense: why is this Bomb Disposal Expert allowed to order around battleships and determine the fate of all of those onboard when his job is to diffuse explosives?

Garrett has a bag of tricks at his disposal such as water arrows that extinguish flame light sources, blunt arrows that can trigger distant switches, flame arrows that can relight said flames or set enemies alight, and a flash bomb to fling when spotted.

More significant than its imaginary world was the way Counter-Strike pushed multiplayer gun games closer towards the player practices of sports, with tightly focussed play over a series of rounds involving (from the counter-terrorist perspective) either hostage rescue or bomb disposal that lead to winning an overall match.

When it comes to firepower, players will have a complete and creative arsenal of weapons at their disposal, ranging from missiles and miniguns to giant magnets, Napalm, bombs and — no jokes — flying mascots.

Now don't get me wrong, there are a lot of things that this game does well, for example the level design and open - feel to the areas is something that a lot of first person shooters still struggle with nowadays or the imaginative array of weapons that the Duke has at his disposal throughout the main campaign and the expansion packs — there's the Shrinker (that does exactly what you'd imagine) in the main campaign to Super soakers and Pineapples (replacing Pipe Bombs) in the Duke Caribbean: Life's a Beach expansion.

Luckily, Tumbili has a never - ending supply of bombs at his disposal that he can use to blast himself around each of the 60 - plus levels.

Blaustein also touched upon Kojima's reliance on the rest of his team to formulate gameplay ideas — which echoes what was pointed out in making of documentaries for Sons of Liberty: Kojima handed each team member a notepad and demanded that every day they come up with a new idea, which eventually led to the bomb disposal sequence.

Fortunately this part of the story is a drop in the ocean but is still as confusing as ever and only reminds the gamer that it's time to return to Victorian London, more so with the wonderful gadgets at your disposal like the rope launcher (did someone say Batman), brass knuckles, smoke bombs to my «gentlemanly» cane sword.

I like knowing that I have a certain amount of bombs at my disposal, so it took some time to get used to this new system.

Whilst a couple of games have experimented with the idea in a variety of different ways, developer Steel Crate Games have actually made the best use of it with their frantic bomb disposal party game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.

A range of weapons are at Takkar's disposal, including the deadly double - bow, bee bombs and fire.

At her disposal is a satisfying array of creative weaponry, including bows with multiple types of arrows, bomb slingers, mines, and a couple of cool tools called a tripcaster — which quickly creates tripwire traps of varying types that can shock, blast, or freeze an enemy — and a ropecaster, which can tangle an enemy's legs.

The dedication of Tristin Lowe's new public artwork, Shooting Star, will take place at the SWAT / Bomb Disposal / K -9 Headquarters in Northeast Philadelphia.

Unfortunately, the 8th explosive (90 grams of research development explosive, which was planted on an Irish electrician) got by me, leading to the passenger's arrest and his home in Ireland being cordoned off while bomb disposal experts removed the explosives for further examination.

The use of a remotely - controlled bomb disposal robot in Dallas, Texas on July 7 to deliver an explosive that detonated, killing a man suspected of shooting more than a dozen people, has attracted media attention and public scrutiny across the United States and around the world.

Clearly inspired by the Bomberman series, this puzzle game sees you take on a number of mazes and face off against large opponents using only the bombs at your disposal.

Job duties range from that of beat cops (which include patrolling a regular route, looking for lawbreakers) to those specializing in such fields as dog handling and bomb disposal.

Trained in all types of tactical weapons, entries and extractions, Psychological training for the handling of emotionally disturbed persons, hostage negotiation training, high - rise rescues, scuba and water rescue, apprehension team training, removal of explosives to bomb squad's disposal site, Antiterrorism, and HAZMAT operations and decontamination procedures.