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21 April 1958: Kelly Johnson makes first notes on a Mach-3 aircraft, initially called the U-3, but eventually evolving into Archangel I. Kelly noted in his A-12 diary, "I drew up the first Archangel proposal for a Mach 3.0 cruise airplane having a 4,000 nmi [4,600 mi; 7,400 km] range at 90,000 to 95,000 ft [27,000 to 29,000 m]". [54]
An opposing force (alternatively enemy force, abbreviated OPFOR or OpFor) is a military unit tasked with representing an enemy, usually for training purposes in war game scenarios. The related concept of aggressor squadron is used by some air forces.
English: US Marines from 3rd Amphibious Assault Battalion, 1st Marine Division, act as opposing forces (OPFOR) with a T-72 tank while driving Soviet armored vehicles. Date 21 June 1997
The OPFOR trained U.S. Army forces in mechanized desert warfare following a Soviet-era style threat until June 2002, when the OPFOR and the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment changed to portraying an urban/asymmetrical warfare style of combat U.S. soldiers are facing in operations abroad.
The 66th Brigade (Chinese: 空军航空兵第六十六旅; pinyin: Kōngjūn Hángkōngbīng Dì Liùshíliù Lǚ), also known as the 66th OPFOR Brigade or 66th Blue Brigade (66旅蓝军旅; 66 Lǚ Lán Jūnlǚ) is an air formation of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Ophir (/ ˈ oʊ f ər /; [1] Hebrew: אוֹפִיר, Modern: ʼŌfīr, Tiberian: ʼŌp̄īr) is a port or region mentioned in the Bible, famous for its wealth.Its existence is attested to by an inscribed pottery shard found at Tell Qasile (in modern-day Tel Aviv) in 1946, dating to the eighth century BC, [2] [3] which reads "gold of Ophir to/for Beth-Horon [...] 30 shekels".