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The prototype first flew on 22 September 1938, carrying the civil experimental registration NX19431. [2] Although the CW-21 was not commissioned by the U.S. military, it was test flown at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. The Army Air Corps immediately rejected the aircraft, with one officer commenting that it took a genius to land it. [5]
Peter G. Kokalis of Soldier of Fortune magazine and Shotgun News wrote that he installed over 300 Vortex Flash hiders while working as a military advisor with a Central American paramilitary unit in the 1980s. [7] The Vortex Flash Hider is used by the US Military on M4 carbines and M16 rifles with the NATO Stock Number of NSN 1005-01-591-5825 ...
Instead of being a purpose-built artillery rocket the Type 21 and Type 22 rocket-bombs were a conversion of either a navy 250 kg (550 lb) Type 98 No.25 land bomb or Type 99 No.25 ordinary bomb model 1 bomb that had their tail cones removed and were fitted with solid-propellant rocket boosters. According to Japanese documentation, the ...
The Model 21 was an aerodynamic cleaned up version of the Model 12/PT-3, one of the distinguishing features being curved instead of angular tail surfaces.The aircraft was a single-engined biplane with fixed tailwheel landing gear and accommodation for two in open cockpits.
Exercise Evening Star is the annual test of the emergency response routines to a nuclear weapon accident at Faslane, HMNB Clyde. It is conducted by the Office for Nuclear Regulation. In 2011 the test failed as "a number of command and control aspects of the exercise were not considered to have been adequately demonstrated". [115]
The Cadillac Gage Commando, frequently denoted as the M706 in U.S. military service, [7] is an American armored car designed to be amphibious. [6] It was engineered by Cadillac Gage specifically for the United States Military Police Corps during the Vietnam War as an armed convoy escort vehicle. [7]
National governments deal in both intelligence and military special operations functions that either should be completely secret (i.e., clandestine: the existence of which is not known outside the relevant government circles), or simply cannot be linked to the sponsor (i.e., covert: it is known that sabotage is taking place, but its sponsor is unknown).
A joint predawn raid conducted on October 22, 2015 by a team of Kurdish Counter-terrorism Unit peshmerga forces and U.S. special operations forces on an ISIL run prison near Hawija in Iraq's Kirkuk Governorate freed approximately 70 hostages, including more than 20 members of the Iraqi security forces. [78]