Search results for "Missile" - New World Encyclopedia
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- From 1950 to 1981 the United States had a missile tracking site on Grand Turk. In the early days of the space program NASA used it. After his ...21 KB (3,237 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- hemisphere for example, a ballistic missile fired toward a distant target ... catch in the garden. However, an unguided missile obeys exactly the same physics ...54 KB (8,553 words) - 03:03, 8 January 2024
- of American-made FIM-92 Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, which increased aircraft losses of the Soviet Air Force. However, many field commanders ...40 KB (5,946 words) - 15:41, 4 February 2023
- strike is the containment building and its missile shield. The NRC's Chairman ... any, containment structure or associated missile shield will be built on ...49 KB (7,262 words) - 10:10, 11 March 2023
- Despite Seoul being within North Korean artillery and missile range ... South relationship. However, North Korean missile tests, its October 2006 ...42 KB (5,837 words) - 16:22, 6 March 2024
- Mahmud of Ghazni (October 2, 971 – April 30, 1030 C.E.), also known as Yamin ad-Dawlah Mahmud (in full: Yamin ad-Dawlah Abd al-Qasim Mahmud ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the United States government's manned launch vehicle ...43 KB (6,281 words) - 15:42, 4 February 2023
- and the guidance system for a ballistic missile are two examples. Control systems theory is an active field of applied mathematics involving ...28 KB (3,868 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- Vehicles, roughly 11,337 Artillery Systems, 7,032 Missile Defense Systems, and 13,000 infantry support systems. Equipment of the ROK Army include the ...22 KB (3,202 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Category:Paranormal Paranormal, meaning "outside the norm," is an umbrella ...25 KB (3,499 words) - 11:26, 11 March 2023
- the most recent being the nuclear Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine USS Lafayette (SSBN-616) which served until 1991. Congress granted him honorary citizenship ...23 KB (3,585 words) - 12:41, 22 May 2024
- positioning of a hand-held surface-to-air missile. August 26, 1988.]] When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Azzam issued a fatwa ...22 KB (3,344 words) - 04:44, 14 June 2023
- with the rest of NATO during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, de Gaulle continued his pursuit of an independent defense by removing France& ...52 KB (7,555 words) - 20:25, 17 March 2024
- group of responsibility and launched cruise missile attacks (August 20) on the al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum North. The destruction of ...22 KB (3,216 words) - 02:13, 6 June 2024
- missiles that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. ... Following the Cuban Missile Crisis and what he perceived as a Soviet ...45 KB (6,974 words) - 17:59, 7 March 2024
- French helicopters. The air defense has a Hawk missile program for which the United States provided training, and has taken delivery of two of five ...41 KB (6,013 words) - 11:40, 3 May 2023
- World War II battleground, is now used as a U.S. missile test range. == Geography == The country consists of twenty-nine atolls and five isolated ...23 KB (3,267 words) - 08:34, 10 March 2023
- weapons on Cuba, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis—a defining incident ... ===Cuban Missile Crisis and furthering socialism: 1962–1968=== ...103 KB (15,063 words) - 17:34, 26 March 2024
- by the second Bush administration as National Missile Defense using different technologies). In the 1990s, the Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched ...25 KB (3,822 words) - 14:14, 20 May 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Law Hijacking is the assumption of control of a vehicle through some means of coercion, often the ...26 KB (3,897 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
