Surface-to-air missile

the lunar program as you know it was launched on December 3, 1965 with the objective of achieving a soft landing on the Moon but it really wasn’t soft at all. Actually the retrorocket was launched too late and suffered a hard impact on the lunar surface on the “Oceanus Procellarum” (Ocean of storms) the spacecraft spun , losing altitude control and preventing the hard impact. The mission only lasted for only three days not so long , but the mission did complete the experimental testing of its…

Historians and archeologists have found evidence of human civilization in the Nile Valley dating as far back as 120,000 years ago. Over time, population began to grow and divide itself into two kingdoms, Upper and Lower Egypt. Around 3150 B.C., a pharaoh from the Early Dynastic Period gained control of both kingdoms uniting them to form the Egypt known today. With a population of 90 million, it makes Egypt the third most populated country in all of Africa. Roughly, 20 percent of this…

The Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, summed up his assessment of the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) in the following statement: “With our “ends” fixed and our “means” declining, it is therefore imperative that we innovate within the “ways” we defend the Nation.” Strategic planning and transition to Joint Force 2020 (JF 2020) in a fiscally constrained environment affords DoD senior leaders the opportunity to be more innovative than ever before in assessing and…

flashlights. Rodney came down from the ladder and said to George: ‘I turned on the snooperscope, let's move on the next room. There were horizontal concrete-beams to support the two parallel concrete pipes, thus they formed section by section exposed to the air. The pipes turned the corner and I can't trace them. We need one more ladder just incase different situations. There, on the corridor,’ so a crew ran and took it. Fifteen persons with two ladders moved to the next room. Greg said: ‘it's a…

the diesel engines through the submarines must be surfaced first. The use of the diesel engines is usually to just charge batteries for the electrical so they can go back under unless they have nuclear power. For subs to be able to submerge and surface from the water they use these ballast tanks that change their buoyancy by either filling them with water to go down or removing water to go up.While the subs are above water they can just use GPS to navigate around but while the subs are…

1. Valentino identifies mass killings as not “killing for killing’s sake”; instead, he points out how he believes that the perpetrators of these mass killings did not want the death of these victims. He goes on to say that the perpetrators had to kill to implement their new system of economic organization and, even ethnic genocides, efforts are to remove people from society fail, where killing is the easiest way to get people out of the society. Additionally, he suggests that if the…

One of the most intense parts of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The conflict of the Cuban Missile Crisis happened when Fidel Castro overthrew the previous leader, Fulgencio Batista. The book “John F. Kennedy Vs. Nikita Khrushchev” by Ellis Roxburgh states, "In 1959, Fidel Castro led a rebellion on the island to overthrow the corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista. The United States had supported Batista and had many business interests in Cuba.” The U.S. approved of the previous leader,…

problem the United States is faced with is whether or not to use drones in militias combat.Imagine this, a pilot is flying his plane over the middle east attempting to locate a major leader in the terrorist act.Then, Boom!The pilot is hit by a surface to air missile, and the plane explodes on impact.The plane as well as the pilot, are lost.This isn’t just a death, a wife lost a husband, a child lost their father, that pilot had a family to take care of.All of this could have been avoided, just…

transporting key personnel but also for weapon systems being transported as well. The intelligence that had been collected after the discovery, showed that indications and warnings systems that had been in place had failed to detect the movement of the SS-4 Missiles as well as the being able to use collection mediums to fully identify the actions on the Island. Oleg Penkovsky had been a spy used by both the CIA and British SIS in order to gathering intelligence from classified military files.…

The Republic of India perpetuates an apprehension of threats on a daily basis. Neighboring or nearby countries, such as: China, Russia, Pakistan, and Iran, all pose deliberate peril to the economy, political stability, and military focal point of this rising world power. Amid constant global struggles for many nations to remain buoyant, India’s economy and infrastructure have shown a consistent, yet dramatic increase of substantial margins annually. India occupies a great dynamism that…