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Additionally, Rangers attempted to recover prisoners of war, capture enemy soldiers for interrogation, tap the wire communications of the North Vietnam Army and the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam on the Ho Chi Minh trail, and mine enemy trails and roads.
1 air flight of ten F-5s (captured after Vietnam War) 1 air flight of ten A-37s (captured after Vietnam War) 1 air flight of seven UH-1s and three UH-7s (captured after Vietnam War) 919th Air Transport Regiment [105] responsible for transporting troops Several C-130, C-119 and C-47 (captured after Vietnam War) 371st Air Division [106]
The Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities signed a US$140 million deal with China Great Wall Industries Co. Ltd. to launch the Venezuelan Remote-Sensing Satellite 1 in May 2011 marking China's first export of a reconnaissance satellite. VRSS-1 was based on the design of Jianbing-6 satellites and was launched on 29 September 2012 from JSLC.
Operation Popeye / Sober Popeye (Project Controlled Weather Popeye / Motorpool / Intermediary-Compatriot) was a military cloud-seeding project carried out by the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War in 1967–1972.
China’s rapidly growing arsenal of anti-satellite weapons could cripple America’s military in a crisis and the U.S. is scrambling to shore up its defenses miles above the Earth.
The last big media shift came with coverage of the Gulf War, in 1990, when "we had the first real 24-hour war and CNN became the war channel — they basically covered that very short war [six ...
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Donald W. Downing was assigned to the 557th Tactical Fighter Squadron during the Vietnam War.
On 11 January 2007, the People's Republic of China successfully destroyed a defunct Chinese weather satellite, Fengyun-1C (FY-1C, COSPAR 1999-025A). The destruction was reportedly carried out by an SC-19 ASAT missile with a kinetic kill warhead [41] similar in concept to the American Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle. FY-1C was a weather satellite ...