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  2. McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II - Wikipedia

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    The USN and USMC received the first definitive Phantom, the F-4B which was equipped with the Westinghouse APQ-72 radar (pulse only), a Texas Instruments AAA-4 Infrared search and track pod under the nose, an AN/AJB-3 bombing system and powered by J79-GE-8,-8A and -8B engines of 10,900 lbf (48.5 kN) dry and 16,950 lbf (75.4 kN) afterburner ...

  3. San Juanico disaster - Wikipedia

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    Liquefied gas Horton tanks similar to the six spherical tanks involved in the San Juanico disaster LPG bullet tanks. There were 48 tanks of this type in the Pemex plant. Note how this modern installation incorporates some of the lessons learned from San Juanico: an uncongested, well ventilated area, with the horizontal tanks in a parallel cluster configuration, which minimizes the effects of ...

  4. 1974 Los Angeles International Airport bombing - Wikipedia

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    The bomb exploded at 8:10 AM inside a locker. There were about 50 people in the airport lobby at the time of the explosion. The terminal was evacuated after the blast. The explosion ripped through 100 feet (30 m) of the lobby. [4]

  5. Two brothers and 16 sticks of dynamite: The bombing of the L ...

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    About 100 workers were in the Los Angeles Times building at 1:07 a.m. Oct. 1, 1910. Then 16 sticks of dynamite exploded at the anti-union newspaper, and people began dying.

  6. List of military electronics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Modified AN/APQ-100 Fire control radar paired with AN/AWG-11 Fire Control System, replaced AN/APG-59: F-4 Phantom II: Ferranti: AN/APG-61: Modified AN/APQ-109 Fire control radar paired with AN/AWG-12 Fire Control System, replaced AN/APG-60: F-4 Phantom II: Ferranti: AN/APG-63: All-weather multimode Fire control radar system paired with AN/AWG ...

  7. Could Los Angeles Survive a Nuclear Bomb? - AOL

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    Population within blast range of 409.3 sq. miles: 4.4 million (33%) Manhattan, Soho, New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA ©TomasSereda / iStock via Getty Images

  8. Cheli Air Force Station - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Bomb Plot, or LA Bomb Plot #7 or Los Angeles RBS, was a Radar Bomb Scoring (RBS) site of the Radar Bomb Scoring Division, established at Cheli Air Force Station c. 1952, for evaluating bomber training missions on practice targets in Southern California.

  9. Los Angeles Times bombing - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Times bombing was the purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in Los Angeles, California, United States, on October 1, 1910, by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers (IW). The explosion started a fire which killed 21 occupants and injured 100 more.