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McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II

Index McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II

The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) AV-8B Harrier II is a single-engine ground-attack aircraft that constitutes the second generation of the Harrier Jump Jet family. [1]

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Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems

Abbreviated Test Language for All Systems (ATLAS) is a MILSPEC language for automatic testing of avionics equipment.

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ADM-160 MALD

The ADM-160 MALD (Miniature Air-Launched Decoy) is a decoy missile developed by the United States.

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Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System

The Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) is a design conversion of Hydra 70 unguided rockets with a laser guidance kit to turn them into precision-guided munitions (PGMs).

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Aero Fighters

Aero Fighters, known as in Japan, is a vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game originally released in 1992 by Video System and ported to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993.

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AGM-122 Sidearm

The AGM-122 Sidearm was an American air-to-surface anti-radiation missile produced between 1986 and 1990.

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AGM-65 Maverick

The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-surface missile (AGM) designed for close air support.

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AHS International

The AHS International, Inc., formerly the American Helicopter Society, is the non-profit technical society for the advancement of vertical flight.

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AIM-120 AMRAAM

The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM (pronounced "am-ram"), is a modern beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile (BVRAAM) capable of all-weather day-and-night operations.

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Aircraft canopy

An aircraft canopy is the transparent enclosure over the cockpit of some types of aircraft.

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Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.

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Aircraft catapult

An aircraft catapult is a device used to launch aircraft from ships, most commonly used on aircraft carriers, as a form of assisted take off.

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Aircraft in fiction

Aircraft in fiction covers the various real-world aircraft that have made significant appearances in fiction over the decades, including in books, films, toys, TV programs, video games, and other media.

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Airframe

The airframe of an aircraft is its mechanical structure.

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Al Asad Airbase

Ayn al-Asad Airbase is an Iraqi Armed Forces and United States armed forces base located in the Al Anbar Governorate of western Iraq.

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Alan Miller (journalist)

Alan C. Miller is an American journalist, and president and CEO of the News Literacy Project.

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Alcatraz Island in popular culture

Alcatraz Island has appeared many times in popular culture.

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ALR-67 Radar Warning Receiver

The AN/ALR-67 Radar Warning Receiver is designed to warn an aircraft's crew of potentially hostile radar activity.

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America-class amphibious assault ship

The America-class amphibious assault ships (formerly the LHA(R) class) of the U.S. Navy are designed to put ashore a Marine Expeditionary Unit using helicopters and MV-22B Osprey V/STOL transport aircraft, supported by AV-8B Harrier II or F-35 Lightning II V/STOL aircraft and various attack helicopters.

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American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–present)

An American-led intervention in Iraq started on 15 June 2014, when President Barack Obama ordered United States forces to be dispatched to the region, in response to offensives in Iraq conducted by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

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Amphibious ready group

An amphibious ready group (ARG) of the United States Navy consists of a naval element—a group of warships known as an amphibious task force (ATF)—and a landing force (LF) of U.S. Marines (and occasionally U.S. Army soldiers), in total about 5,000 people.

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AN/APG-65 radar family

The AN/APG-65 and AN/APG-73 are designations for a family of all-weather multimode airborne radar systems designed by Hughes Aircraft (now Raytheon) for the F/A-18 Hornet, and used on a variety of fighter aircraft types.

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AN/ASB-19

The Hughes AN/ASB-19 Angle Rate Bombing System (ARBS) is an avionics system originally designed for US Marine Corps attack aircraft to improve day and night bombing accuracy when operating in the close support role using unguided weapons.

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AN/AYK-14

The AN/AYK-14(V) is an airborne computer that was designed in 1976 by the Control Data Aerospace Division in Bloomington, Minnesota.

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Angolan Navy

The Angolan Navy (Marinha de Guerra Angolana) or MGA is the naval branch of the Angolan Armed Forces and is tasked with protecting Angola’s 1,600 km long coastline.

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Art Nalls

Arthur L. "Art" Nalls, Jr. (born 1954) is a retired United States Marine Corps officer, test pilot, and entrepreneur who owns and operates a unique air show business consisting of two Harrier jump jets as well as other aircraft.

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Attack on Ras Tanura

The Raid on Ras Tanura was an attempted aerial bombing of the Ras Tanura oil production facility in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War.

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AV-8B Harrier Assault

AV-8B Harrier Assault is a combat flight simulator/realtime strategy game developed by Simis and first published by Domark in 1992.

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AV16

AV16 may refer to.

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Aviation biofuel

Aviation biofuel is a biofuel used for aircraft.

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Aviation Challenge

Aviation Challenge is a military-style camp for youth between the ages of 9 to 18 years old located in Huntsville, Alabama and is part of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.

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Aviation-capable naval vessels

Many present-day naval vessels, aside from aircraft carriers and full-length deck amphibious assault ships, are capable of carrying aircraft.

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B83 nuclear bomb

The B83 thermonuclear weapon is a variable-yield unguided bomb developed by the United States in the late 1970s, entering service in 1983.

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Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range

The Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range (BMGR, formerly known as Luke Air Force Range) is a bombing range in the U.S. state of Arizona, near the Mexico–United States border.

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Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2 is a 2005 first-person shooter military simulator video game, developed by Digital Illusions CE, with contributions by Trauma Studios, and published by Electronic Arts exclusively for Microsoft Windows as the third game in the ''Battlefield'' series.

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Battlefield Earth (film)

Battlefield Earth (also referred to as Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000) is a 2000 American science fiction action film based upon the first half of L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel of the same name.

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Boeing AH-64 Apache

The Boeing AH-64 Apache is an American twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew.

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Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber.

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Boeing X-32

The Boeing X-32 was a concept demonstrator aircraft in the Joint Strike Fighter contest.

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Brian Binnie

William Brian Binnie (born 1953) is a former United States Navy officer and is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.

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British Aerospace

British Aerospace plc (BAe) was a British aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer.

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British Aerospace Harrier II

The British Aerospace Harrier II was a second-generation vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) jet aircraft used previously by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and, between 2006 and 2010, the Royal Navy (RN).

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British Aerospace Sea Harrier

The British Aerospace Sea Harrier is a naval short take-off and vertical landing/vertical take-off and landing jet fighter, reconnaissance and attack aircraft; the second member of the Harrier Jump Jet family developed.

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Bryan D. O'Connor

Bryan Daniel O'Connor (born September 6, 1946) is a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel and former NASA astronaut.

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Camp Leatherneck

Camp Leatherneck is a 1,600 acre Afghan Armed Forces base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

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Camp Shorabak

Camp Shorabak (formerly Camp Bastion) is a former British Army airbase, located northwest of the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, until 27 October 2014 when the British Army handed over control to the Afghan Ministry of Defense.

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Canberra-class landing helicopter dock

The Canberra class is a ship class of two Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) ships built for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).

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Carolinas Aviation Museum

The Carolinas Aviation Museum is an aviation museum on the grounds of Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Carrier-based aircraft

Carrier-based aircraft, sometimes known as carrier-capable aircraft or carrier-borne aircraft, are naval aircraft designed for operations from aircraft carriers.

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Charles O. Hobaugh

Charles Owen "Scorch" Hobaugh (born November 5, 1961, in Bar Harbor, Maine) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer.

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Cleveland National Air Show

The Cleveland National Air Show is an annual air show held on Labor Day weekend at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Close air support

In military tactics, close air support (CAS) is defined as air action such as air strikes by fixed or rotary-winged aircraft against hostile targets that are in close proximity to friendly forces and which requires detailed integration of each air mission with fire and movement of these forces and attacks with aerial bombs, glide bombs, missiles, rockets, aircraft cannons, machine guns, and even directed-energy weapons such as lasers.

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Coalition of the Gulf War

Below is the American-led coalition against the Iraqi government in the 1990s.

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Combat flight simulator

Combat flight simulators are simulation video games (similar to amateur flight simulation software) used to simulate military aircraft and their operations.

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Commander in Chief Naval Fleet

The Commander in Chief Naval Fleet (Italian:Il Comando in Capo della Squadra Navale) (CINCNAV) is a post in the Italian Navy that is responsible for the operational aspects of the Italian Navy, including ships, submarines and aircraft.

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Composite Engineering BQM-167 Skeeter

The Composite Engineering BQM-167 Skeeter is a subscale aerial target (drone) developed and manufactured by Composite Engineering Inc.

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Daniel Mulville

Daniel R. Mulville (born 1939) is an American engineer who served briefly as Acting Administrator of NASA in 2001.

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Depleted uranium

Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium.

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Deployable Virtual Training Environment

The Deployable Virtual Training Environment (DVTE) is a laptop based platform for a wide variety of training simulations in the USMC.

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Direct voice input

Direct voice input (DVI) (sometimes called voice input control (VIC)) is a style of human–machine interaction "HMI" in which the user makes voice commands to issue instructions to the machine.

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Dirge (Transformers)

Dirge is the name of several different fictional characters from the Transformers series.

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Douglas A-4 Skyhawk

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk is a single seat subsonic carrier-capable attack aircraft developed for the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in the early 1950s.

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Duane D. Thiessen

Duane D. Thiessen (born March 11, 1951 in Goessel, Kansas) is a retired Lieutenant General in the United States Marine Corps, and is the past commander of the United States Marine Corps Forces Pacific, serving from September 2, 2010, until his retirement on August 7, 2012.

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Expeditionary strike group

The expeditionary strike group (ESG) is a United States Navy concept introduced in the early 1990s, based on the Naval Expeditionary Task Force.

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Fleet Replacement Squadron

A Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS), is a unit of the United States Navy and Marine Corps that trains Naval Aviators, Naval Flight Officers (NFOs) and enlisted Naval Aircrewman on the specific front-line aircraft they have been assigned to fly.

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GameNOW

GameNOW (occasionally abbreviated to GN) was a United States-based video game magazine that was published by Ziff-Davis from November 2001 to January 2004.

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GAU-12 Equalizer

The General Dynamics GAU-12/U Equalizer is a five-barrel 25 mm Gatling-type rotary cannon.

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GAU-8 Avenger

The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-type autocannon that is typically mounted in the United States Air Force's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II.

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Genfly

GenFly is an advanced military aviation training device developed in the late twentieth century for the Royal Air Force, for use in training airframe mechanics and technicians, particularly in maintenance activities involving flying controls and aircraft hydraulics.

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Gina O'Connor

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Gordon Lewis (engineer)

Gordon Manns Lewis CBE FREng (24 June 1924 – 4 October 2010) was a British aeronautical engineer who made significant contributions to the arts and sciences of turbine engine design.

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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park protects a large part of Australia's Great Barrier Reef from damaging activities.

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Greg Kelly

Gregory Raymond "Greg" Kelly (born December 17, 1968) is an American News Anchor.

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Grumman F-14 Tomcat

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft.

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Harpoon (missile)

The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile system, developed and manufactured by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing Defense, Space & Security).

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Harrier

Harrier can mean.

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Harrier Jump Jet

The Harrier, informally referred to as the Harrier Jump Jet, is a family of jet-powered attack aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations (V/STOL).

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Hawker Siddeley Harrier

The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, developed in the 1960s, was the first of the Harrier Jump Jet series of aircraft.

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Hispanics in the United States Marine Corps

Hispanics in the United States Marine Corps, such as Private France Silva who during the Boxer Rebellion became the first Marine of the thirteen Marines of Hispanic descent to be awarded the Medal of Honor, and Private First Class Guy Gabaldon who is credited with capturing over 1,000 enemy soldiers and civilians during World War II, have distinguished themselves in combat.

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History of the aircraft carrier

Aircraft carriers are warships that evolved from balloon-carrying wooden vessels into nuclear-powered vessels carrying scores of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft.

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HMH-361

Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 361 (HMH-361) is a United States Marine Corps helicopter squadron consisting of CH-53E Super Stallion transport helicopters.

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Hydra 70

The Hydra 70 rocket is a 2.75-inch fin-stabilized unguided rocket used primarily in the air-to-ground role.

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Imperial War Museum North

Imperial War Museum North (sometimes referred to as IWM North) is a museum in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.

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Imperial, California

Imperial is a city in Imperial County, California.

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Indian Navy Multi-Role Support Vessel programme

India's Ministry of Defence finalised a project for the procurement of four Landing Helicopter Docks (also referred to as "Multi-Role Support Vessel") in order to upgrade the Indian Navy's disaster response, amphibious warfare and island protection capabilities.

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Indianapolis 500 traditions

Due to the longevity of the Indianapolis 500, numerous traditions surrounding the race have developed over the years.

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International military intervention against ISIL

In response to rapid territorial gains made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during the first half of 2014, and its universally-condemned executions, reported human rights abuses and the fear of further spillovers of the Syrian Civil War, many states began to intervene against it in both the Syrian Civil War and the Iraqi Civil War (2014–present).

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Iowa-class battleship

The Iowa-class battleships were a class of six fast battleships ordered by the United States Navy in 1939 and 1940 to escort the Fast Carrier Task Forces that would operate in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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Italian aircraft carrier Cavour

Cavour (portaerei Cavour) is an Italian aircraft carrier launched in 2004.

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Italian aircraft carrier Giuseppe Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi is an Italian aircraft carrier, the first through deck aviation ship ever built for the Italian Navy, and the first Italian ship built to operate fixed-wing aircraft.

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Italian Armed Forces aircraft designation system

The Italian Armed Forces aircraft designation system is a unified designation system introduced by the Italian Armed Forces in 2009 for all Italian military aircraft.

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Italian Navy

The Italian Navy (Marina Militare, "Military Navy"; abbreviated as MM) is the maritime defence force of the Italian Republic.

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Italian Navy Aviation

The Italian Navy Aviation (Aviazione Navale) is the naval air component of the Italian Navy.

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Iven C. Kincheloe Award

The Iven C. Kincheloe Award recognizes outstanding professional accomplishment in the conduct of flight testing.

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Jenna Dolan

Jennifer Marie "Jenna" Dolan (born 1974) is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve and former fighter pilot.

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Jet fighter generations

Jet fighters are often categorized historically in "generations", a term that first appeared in the 1990s, according to the Royal Australian Air Force's Air Power Development Centre Bulletin: "to make sense of the leap-frogging improvements in performance to jet fighter aircraft brought about through major advances in aircraft design, avionics, and weapon systems".

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John Farley (pilot)

John Farley, (1933 - June 13, 2018) was a British fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force and an experimental test pilot heavily involved in the development of the Hawker Siddeley P.1127 and latterly the BAe Harrier.

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Joint Direct Attack Munition

The Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a guidance kit that converts unguided bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision-guided munitions.

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Joint Strike Fighter program

Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) is a development and acquisition program intended to replace a wide range of existing fighter, strike, and ground attack aircraft for the United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and their allies.

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Joseph T. Anderson

Joseph T. "Joe" Anderson (born February 21, 1946) is a retired United States Marine Corps general officer, combat veteran, and test pilot.

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Kosovo War

No description.

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Landing Helicopter Assault

LHA-1 underway in June 1997. Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA) is the United States Navy's hull classification symbol for the general purpose helicopter-carrying amphibious assault ships of the ''Tarawa'' and ''America'' classes.

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Landing helicopter dock

Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD), is the U.S. Navy (USN), Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and NATO hull classification symbol for multipurpose amphibious assault ships which are capable of operating helicopters and have a well deck.

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Laurel Clark

Laurel Blair Salton Clark (March 10, 1961 – February 1, 2003) was an American medical doctor, United States Navy Captain, NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle mission specialist.

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Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc.

Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., 88 F. Supp. 2d 116, (S.D.N.Y. 1999), aff'd 210 F.3d 88 (2d Cir. 2000), more widely known as the Pepsi Points Case, is a contracts case tried in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1999, in which the plaintiff, John Leonard, sued PepsiCo, Inc. in an effort to enforce an "offer" to redeem 7,000,000 Pepsi Points for an AV-8 Harrier II jump jet (valued at $33.8 million at the time) which PepsiCo had shown in a portion of a televised commercial that PepsiCo argued was intended to be humorous.

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List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1980–89)

This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred.

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List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1990–99)

This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred.

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List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (2000–09)

This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred.

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List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (2010–present)

This is a list of notable accidents and incidents involving military aircraft grouped by the year in which the accident or incident occurred.

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List of active Italian military aircraft

The following is a list of military aircraft currently used by all branches of the Italian Armed Forces, including the Italian Gendarmerie (Carabinieri).

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List of active United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons

This is a list of all of the active squadrons that exist in the United States Marine Corps, sorted by type.

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List of active United States military aircraft

Active United States military aircraft is a list of military aircraft that are used by the United States military.

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List of aircraft (Mc)

This is a list of aircraft in numerical order of manufacturer followed by alphabetical order beginning with 'M'.

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List of aircraft by date and usage category

This is a list of aircraft by date and usage.

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List of aircraft carriers

This list of aircraft carriers contains aircraft carriers listed alphabetically by name.

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List of Area 88 characters

The following is a list of characters from the Area 88 franchise by Kaoru Shintani.

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List of Autobots

This is a list of known Autobots in the Transformers fictional universe and toy line.

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List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan

The following is a list aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan.

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List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War

This list of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War includes incidents with Coalition and civilian aircraft during the Iraq War.

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List of bomber aircraft

The following is a list of bomber aircraft, organized by era and manufacturer.

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List of carrier-based aircraft

List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders and submarines as well as dirigibles.

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List of combat losses of United States military aircraft since the Vietnam War

This is a list of notable fixed-wing military air combat losses since the end of the Vietnam War grouped by the year that the loss occurred.

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List of crew-served weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces

This list contains weapons that are classified as crew-serve or crew service, often mislabeled as crew-served, as the term is used in the United States military.

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List of Eagle Scouts

Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouting program division of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

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List of equipment of the United States Armed Forces

The equipment of the United States Armed Forces can be subdivided into four categories: weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and attire.

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List of fighter aircraft

This is a list of military aircraft that are primarily designed for air-to-air combat and thus does not include aircraft intended for other roles where they have some secondary air-to-air capability, such as with many ground attack aircraft.

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List of Gulf War military equipment

List of Gulf War Military Equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by the different nations during the Gulf War of 1990–1991.

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List of Harrier Jump Jet family losses

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List of Harrier operators

This is a list of operators of the Harrier family of military V/STOL aircraft, designed and built in the United Kingdom and United States of America.

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List of Harrier variants

This is a list of variants of the Harrier Jump Jet family of V/STOL ground attack fighter aircraft.

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List of inactive United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons

While other nations have Marines who are aviators, only the United States Marine Corps has its own dedicated aviation arm.

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List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons

There are hundreds of US Navy aircraft squadrons which are not currently active dating back to before World War II (the U.S. Navy operated aircraft prior to World War I, but it did not organize them in squadrons until after that war).

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List of licensed and localized editions of Monopoly: USA

The following is a list of game boards of the Parker Brothers/Hasbro board game Monopoly adhering to a particular theme or particular locale in the United States.

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List of military aircraft of the United States

This list of military aircraft of the United States includes prototype, pre-production, and operational types.

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List of military electronics of the United States

This page lists types of American military electronic instruments along with brief descriptions of them.

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List of naval ship classes in service

The list of naval ship classes in service includes all combatant surface classes in service currently with navies or armed forces and auxiliaries in the world.

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List of operations conducted by SEAL Team Six

This is an incomplete list of operations conducted by the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group.

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List of radars

This is a list of radars.

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List of U.S. DoD aircraft designations

This is a table of 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system with selected letter sequences and number.

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List of United States bomber aircraft

This is a list of United States bomber aircraft.

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List of United States Marine Corps MOS

The United States Marine Corps Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) is a system of categorizing career fields.

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List of United States naval aircraft

Naval aircraft currently used by the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps.

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List of United States Navy aircraft squadrons

This is a list of United States Navy aircraft squadrons.

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List of vehicles of the United States Marine Corps

This is a list of vehicles and aircraft used by the United States Marine Corps, for combat, support, and motor transport.

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List of VTOL aircraft

This is a list of fixed-wing aircraft capable of vertical take-off and landing arranged under manufacturer.

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Litening

The AN/AAQ-28(V) LITENING targeting pod is an advanced precision targeting pod system currently operational with a wide variety of aircraft worldwide.

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Lockheed Martin A-4AR Fightinghawk

The Lockheed Martin A-4AR Fightinghawk is a major upgrade of the McDonnell Douglas A-4M Skyhawk attack aircraft developed for the Argentine Air Force which entered service in 1998.

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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole fighters.

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Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II development

Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II development started in 1992 with the origins of the Joint Strike Fighter program and is set to culminate in full production in 2018.

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Lockheed Martin X-35

The Lockheed Martin X-35 was a concept demonstrator aircraft (CDA) developed by Lockheed Martin for the Joint Strike Fighter program.

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LTV A-7 Corsair II

The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft manufactured by Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV) to replace the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk.

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M970

The M-970 Semi-Trailer Refueler is a fuel dispensing tanker designed for under/overwing refueling of aircraft.

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Manuel Rivera Jr.

Captain Manuel Rivera Jr. (September 24, 1959 – January 22, 1991) was the first serviceman of Puerto Rican descent to die in Operation Desert Shield during the Persian Gulf War.

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Maple Flag

MAPLE FLAG is an advanced aerial combat training exercise hosted at CFB Cold Lake, Alberta.

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Marine Aircraft Group 13

Marine Aircraft Group 13 is a United States Marine Corps aviation unit based at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma that is currently composed of two McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II squadrons, two Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II squadrons, an unmanned aerial vehicle squadron, a maintenance and logistics squadron, and a wing support squadron.

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Marine Aircraft Group 14

Marine Aircraft Group 14 (MAG-14) is a United States Marine Corps aviation unit based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina that is currently composed of four AV-8B Harrier squadrons, four EA-6B Prowler squadrons, one KC-130 squadron, a maintenance and logistics squadron, and a wing support squadron.

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Marine Aircraft Group 40

Marine Aircraft Group 40 is a composite United States Marine Corps aviation unit that is based in Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009.

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Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13

Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13 (MALS-13) is an aviation logistics support unit of the United States Marine Corps.

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Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point

Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point or MCAS Cherry Point(*) is a United States Marine Corps airfield located in Havelock, North Carolina, USA, in the eastern part of the state.

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Marine Corps Air Station Yuma

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma or MCAS Yuma is a United States Marine Corps air station which is the home to multiple squadrons of AV-8B Harrier IIs and F-35B Lightning IIs of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 (MAWTS-1), Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1) and Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 (VMFT-401), an air combat adversary squadron of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing of the Marine Corps Reserve.

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Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue

Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, also known as Bogue Field, is an landing field located on Bogue Sound (North Carolina) that serves as a Marine Corps’ East Coast site for Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP).

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Marine expeditionary brigade

A Marine expeditionary brigade (MEB) is a formation of the United States Marine Corps, a Marine air-ground task force of approximately 14,500 Marines and sailors constructed around a reinforced infantry regiment, a composite Marine aircraft group, a combat logistics regiment and a MEB command group.

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Marine expeditionary unit

A Marine expeditionary unit (MEU, pronounced "Mew"), formerly called Marine amphibious unit (MAU), is the smallest Marine air-ground task force (MAGTF) in the United States Fleet Marine Force.

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Marine Wing Support Squadron 373

The Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 (MWSS 373) is an aviation ground support unit of the United States Marine Corps.

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McDonnell Aircraft

The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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McDonnell Douglas

McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967.

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Metrication of British transport

A metrication programme for the United Kingdom was announced by the government in 1965 at the behest of the engineering industry and received government approval on condition that its implementation was voluntary, that it was implemented on an industry-by-industry basis and that costs were absorbed where they fell.

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Michael Franzak

Lieutenant Colonel Michael "Zak" Franzak (Ret.) is an American writer.

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MiG-29 Fulcrum (1990 video game)

MiG-29 Fulcrum is a combat flight simulator video game released by Domark in for the Acorn Archimedes, Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS PC platforms.

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Military history of Italy

The military history of Italy chronicles a vast time period, lasting from the overthrow of Tarquinius Superbus in 509 BC, through the Roman Empire, Italian unification, and into the modern day.

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Military intervention against ISIL aerial order of battle

This is the Military intervention against ISIL aerial order of battle, which lists the American forces and allies aerial assets that have taken part in the Military intervention against ISIL between June 2014 and the present day.

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Miramar Air Show

The Miramar Air Show is an annual air show held at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California.

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Mistral-class amphibious assault ship

The Mistral class is a class of three amphibious assault ships, also known as a helicopter carrier, of the French Navy.

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Monogram (company)

Monogram has been a premier maker of scale plastic models of aircraft, spacecraft, ships, cars, and military vehicles since the early 1950s.

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NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) during the Kosovo War.

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Naval Air Station Patuxent River

Naval Air Station Patuxent River, also known as NAS Pax River, is a United States naval air station located in St. Mary's County, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Patuxent River.

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Naval aviation

Naval aviation is the application of military air power by navies, whether from warships that embark aircraft, or land bases.

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No. 33 Squadron RAAF

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No. 84 Wing RAAF

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Offensive counter air

Offensive Counter-Air (OCA) is a military term for the suppression of an enemy's military air power, primarily through ground attacks targeting enemy air bases, disabling or destroying parked aircraft, runways, fuel facilities, hangars, air traffic control facilities and other aviation infrastructure.

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Operation Inherent Resolve

Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is the U.S. military's operational name for the military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIL, in the vernacular, Daesh), including both the campaign in Iraq and the campaign in Syria.

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Operation Odyssey Dawn

Operation Odyssey Dawn was the U.S. code name for the American role in the international military operation in Libya to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 during the initial period of 19–31 March 2011, which continued afterwards under NATO command as Operation Unified Protector.

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Operation Sharp Edge

Operation Sharp Edge was a non-combatant evacuation operation carried out by the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU) and 26th MEU of the United States Marine Corps in Liberia in 1990 and 1991.

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Operation Southern Watch

Operation Southern Watch was an air-centric military operation conducted by the United States Department of Defense from Summer 1992 to Spring 2003.

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Operation Strike of the Sword

Operation Strike of the Sword or Operation Khanjar was a US-led offensive in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.

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Operation Unified Protector

Operation Unified Protector was a NATO operation in 2011 enforcing United Nations Security Council resolutions 1970 and 1973 concerning the Libyan Civil War and adopted on 26 February and 17 March 2011, respectively.

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Operation Urban Warrior

Operation Urban Warrior was a United States Marine Corps program created as an exercise meant to plan and test Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) and urban warfare in general.

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Paul Bevilaqua

Paul Bevilaqua is an aeronautics engineer at Lockheed Martin in California.

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Post-war aviation

The period between 1945 and 1979 is sometimes called the post-war era or the period of the post-war political consensus.

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Quad City Air Show

The Quad City Airshow is an annual event at the Davenport Municipal Airport in Davenport, Iowa and is the largest airshow in the state of Iowa.

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Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier

The Queen Elizabeth class is a class of two aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.

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Quonset Air Museum

The Quonset Air Museum was an aerospace museum located at Quonset Point Air National Guard Station in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

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Quonset Point

Quonset Point, also known simply as Quonset, is a small peninsula in Narragansett Bay in the town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

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Radar warning receiver

Radar warning receiver (RWR) systems detect the radio emissions of radar systems.

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Raid on Yakla

The Raid on Yakla, or simply 2017 Yemen raid, was a United States-led Special Operations Forces operation carried out on January 29, 2017 in al-Ghayil, a village in the Yakla area of the Al Bayda province in central Yemen, during the Second Yemeni Civil War.

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Rolls-Royce LiftSystem

The Rolls-Royce LiftSystem, together with the F135 engine, is an aircraft propulsion system designed for use in the STOVL variant of the F-35 Lightning II.

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Rolls-Royce Pegasus

The Rolls-Royce Pegasus, formerly the Bristol Siddeley Pegasus, is a turbofan engine originally designed by Bristol Siddeley.

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Ryan XV-8

The V-8 designation was re-used by the U.S. armed forces to refer to the AV-8 Harrier.

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SCALPEL

SCALPEL (Small Contained-Area Laser Precision Energetic Load) is a laser-guided bomb produced by Lockheed Martin.

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Scarecrow (novel)

Scarecrow is the fifth Matthew Reilly novel, and the third to feature the main character Captain Shane Schofield, USMC.

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Scott O'Grady

Scott Francis O'Grady (born October 12, 1965) is a former United States Air Force fighter pilot.

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September 2012 raid on Camp Bastion

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Ski-jump (aviation)

In aviation, a ski-jump is an upward-curved ramp that allows aircraft to take off from a runway that is shorter than the aircraft's required takeoff roll.

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Sonic Wings Special

Sonic Wings Special is a 1996 vertical-scrolling shoot 'em up that combines the features in Sonic Wings, Sonic Wings 2, and Sonic Wings 3.

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Spanish aircraft carrier Príncipe de Asturias

Príncipe de Asturias, originally named Almirante Carrero Blanco, was an aircraft carrier and former flagship of the Spanish Navy.

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Spanish frigate Méndez Núñez

Méndez Núñez (F-104) is the fourth ship of the new F-100 class of air defense frigates entering the service with the Spanish Navy in 2006.

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Spanish Navy

The Spanish Navy (Armada Española) is the maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces and one of the oldest active naval forces in the world.

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Spanish oiler Cantabria

Cantabria (A15) is a replenishment oiler operated by the Spanish Navy.

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Spanish ship Juan Carlos I

Juan Carlos I is a multi-purpose amphibious assault ship in the Spanish Navy (Armada Española).

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Special Relationship

The Special Relationship is an unofficial term for the political, diplomatic, cultural, economic, military, and historical relations between the United Kingdom and the United States.

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ST Aerospace A-4SU Super Skyhawk

The ST Aerospace A-4SU Super Skyhawk is a major upgrade project of the Douglas A-4S Skyhawk attack aircraft undertaken by Singapore Aircraft Industries (SAI, now ST Aerospace) in the 1980s.

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Supercritical airfoil

A supercritical airfoil is an airfoil designed, primarily, to delay the onset of wave drag in the transonic speed range.

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Tank plinking

Tank plinking is a term that was given by pilots during the Gulf War to the practice of using precision-guided munitions to destroy artillery, armored personnel carriers, tanks, and other targets.

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Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship

The Tarawa class is a ship class of Landing Helicopter Assault (LHA) type amphibious assault ships operated by the United States Navy (USN).

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Tav

Tav or TAV may refer to.

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Team America Rocketry Challenge

The Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) is an annual American model rocketry competition for students in grades seven to 12 sponsored by the Aerospace Industries Association and the National Association of Rocketry.

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Thrust vectoring

Thrust vectoring, also thrust vector control or TVC, is the ability of an aircraft, rocket, or other vehicle to manipulate the direction of the thrust from its engine(s) or motor(s) in order to control the attitude or angular velocity of the vehicle.

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Thunder Over Louisville

Thunder Over Louisville, the annual kickoff event of the Kentucky Derby Festival, is an airshow and fireworks display in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Thunder over the Boardwalk

Thunder Over the Boardwalk (also known as the Atlantic City Airshow) is an annual airshow held over the Atlantic City boardwalk every summer.

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Timeline of the 2011 military intervention in Libya

This is a timeline of the 2011 military intervention in Libya.

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toy line)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a film which has an associated toy line released in 2009 by Hasbro (Takara Tomy in Japan).

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Triumph Group

Triumph Group, Inc. is an international supplier of aerospace services, structures, systems and support.

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U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Aircraft Squadron Designations

The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps have a well-defined set of principles that govern the designations given to their aircraft squadrons.

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Ultimate Air Combat

Ultimate Air Combat (known as Aces: Iron Eagle III in Japan) is a semi-realistic combat flight simulator developed and published by Activision for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Family Computer.

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United States Department of Defense aerospace vehicle designation

A United States Department of Defense aerospace vehicle designation is determined by a detailed protocol which identifies all aircraft, helicopters, rockets, missiles, spacecraft, and other aerial vehicles in military use by the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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United States Marine Corps Aviation

United States Marine Corps Aviation is the air component of the United States Marine Corps.

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United States Naval Aviator

A Naval Aviator is a commissioned officer or warrant officer qualified as a pilot in the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps or United States Coast Guard.

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United States Third Fleet

The Third Fleet is one of the numbered fleets in the United States Navy.

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USS America (LHA-6)

USS America (LHA-6), the fourth U.S. warship to be named for the colloquial moniker of the United States of America, is the first of the s for the U.S. Navy.

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USS Anchorage (LPD-23)

USS Anchorage (LPD-23), a, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be namesake of the city of Anchorage, Alaska.

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USS Bataan (LHD-5)

USS Bataan (LHD-5) is a commissioned in 1997.

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USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3)

USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3), nicknamed "Devil Dog", was the second ship named after the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I. Her keel was laid down on 5 March 1973 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Ingalls Shipbuilding.

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USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6)

USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) is a, and the third United States Navy ship of that name.

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USS Bougainville (LHA-8)

USS Bougainville (LHA-8) is a planned to be built for the United States Navy.

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USS Boxer (LHD-4)

USS Boxer (LHD-4) is a of the United States Navy.

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USS Cleveland (LPD-7)

USS Cleveland (LPD-7), an ''Austin''-class amphibious transport dock, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city in Ohio.

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USS Duluth (LPD-6)

USS Duluth (LPD-6), an, is the second ship of the United States Navy named for the city in Minnesota.

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USS Essex (LHD-2)

USS Essex (LHD-2) is a United States Navy built at what is now Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and commissioned on 17 October 1992 while moored at North Island NAS beside.

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USS Green Bay (LPD-20)

USS Green Bay (LPD-20) is a She is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the city and bay of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7)

USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) is a of the United States Navy.

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USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)

USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) is the third of the United States Navy named in honor of, a sloop-of-war that gained fame hunting Confederate raiders during the American Civil War.

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USS Makin Island (LHD-8)

USS Makin Island (LHD-8), a, is the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Makin Island, target of the Marine Raiders' Makin Island raid early on in the United States' involvement in World War II.

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USS Nassau (LHA-4)

USS Nassau (LHA-4) is a decommissioned. When active, she was capable of transporting more than 3,000 United States Navy and United States Marine Corps personnel. Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, laid the ship's keel on 13 August 1973; she was commissioned on 28 July 1979. She was decommissioned on 31 March 2011.

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USS Peleliu

USS Peleliu (LHA-5) was a of the United States Navy, named for the Battle of Peleliu of World War II.

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USS Raleigh (LPD-1)

USS Raleigh (LPD-1), the lead ship of her class of amphibious transport docks, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy named for the capital of North Carolina, which in turn honors the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh, the first to attempt the establishment of an English settlement in North America.

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USS Tarawa (LHA-1)

USS Tarawa (LHA-1) was a United States Navy amphibious assault ship, the lead ship of her class, and the second ship to be named for the Battle of Tarawa during World War II.

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USS Tripoli (LHA-7)

USS Tripoli (LHA-7) is the second built for the United States Navy.

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USS Wainwright (CG-28)

USS Wainwright (DLG/CG-28), a destroyer leader, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for members of the Wainwright family; specifically, Commander Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, his son, Master Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Jr., and his cousin, Commander Richard Wainwright, as well as Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, the son of Commander Richard Wainwright, and Commander Richard Wainwright, the son of Admiral Wainwright.

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USS Wasp (LHD-1)

USS Wasp (LHD-1) is a United States Navy multipurpose amphibious assault ship, and the lead ship of her class.

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V16

V16 may refer to.

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VF-51

VF-51, Fighter Squadron 51 was an aviation unit of the United States Navy known as the "Screaming Eagles".

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VMA-214

Marine Attack Squadron 214 (VMA-214) is a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron consisting of AV-8B Harrier (V/STOL) jets.

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VMA-223

Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223) is a United States Marine Corps fixed wing attack squadron that consists of McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II (V/STOL) jets.

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VMA-231

Marine Attack Squadron 231 (VMA-231) is a United States Marine Corps fixed wing attack squadron that consists of AV-8B Harrier (V/STOL) jets.

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VMA-311

Marine Attack Squadron 311 (VMA-311) is a United States Marine Corps ATTACK squadron consisting of AV-8B Harrier (V/STOL) jets.

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VMA-331

Marine Attack Squadron 331 (VMA-331) was an attack squadron in the United States Marine Corps.

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VMA-513

Marine Attack Squadron 513 (VMA-513) was a United States Marine Corps attack squadron consisting of AV-8B Harrier (V/STOL) jets.

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VMA-542

Marine Attack Squadron 542 (VMA-542) is a United States Marine Corps fixed wing attack squadron that consists of AV-8B Harrier (V/STOL) jets.

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VMAT-203

Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 (VMAT-203) is a squadron in the United States Marine Corps that trains naval aviators to fly the AV-8B Harrier.

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VMFA-211

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 211 (VMFA-211) is a United States Marine Corps fighter attack squadron, currently consisting of F-35B Lightning II stealth STOVL strike fighter jets.

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VMM-164

Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 164 (VMM-164), is a United States Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron operating the MV-22B Osprey.

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VMM-261

Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (VMM-261) is a United States Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron consisting of MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft.

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VMM-264

Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 264 (VMM-264) is a United States Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron consisting of MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft.

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VMM-266

Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 266 (VMM-266) is a United States Marine Corps tiltrotor squadron consisting of MV-22 Osprey transport aircraft.

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VMMT-204

Marine Medium Tiltrotor Training Squadron 204 (VMMT-204) is the MV-22 Osprey training squadron of the United States Marine Corps.

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VTOL

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can hover, take off, and land vertically.

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VX-9

Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine (AIRTEVRON NINE, VX-9, nicknamed The Vampires) is a United States Navy air test and evaluation squadron based at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, California.

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Wasp-class amphibious assault ship

The Wasp class is a class of Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) amphibious assault ships operated by the United States Navy.

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Widow maker

A widow maker is something that has the potential to cause sudden loss of life.

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Wing tip

A wing tip (or wingtip) is the part of the wing that is most distant from the fuselage of a fixed-wing aircraft.

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Yakovlev Yak-141

The Yakovlev Yak-141 (Яковлев Як-141; NATO reporting name "Freestyle"), also known as the Yak-41, was a Soviet supersonic vertical takeoff/landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft designed by Yakovlev.

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Yakovlev Yak-43

The Yakovlev Yak-43 was a Soviet VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) fighter designed as the ground-based version of the ill-fated Yakovlev Yak-141, which failed to reach production.

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13th Marine Expeditionary Unit

The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (13th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps.

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15th Marine Expeditionary Unit

The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (15th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps.

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1971 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1971.

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1978 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1978.

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1981 Defence White Paper

The 1981 Defence White Paper (titled "The UK Defence Programme: The Way Forward" Cmnd 8288) was a major review of the United Kingdom's defence policy brought about by the Conservative government under the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

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1981 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1981.

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1985 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1985.

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1991 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1991.

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1996 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1996 were appointments by most of the sixteen Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries.

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2003 in Afghanistan

2003 in Afghanistan.

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2003 Pulitzer Prize

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 were.

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2004 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 2004 in Afghanistan.

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2009 Baraawe raid

The Baraawe raid, code named Operation Celestial Balance, was a helicopter assault by United States Special Operations Forces against the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and associated al-Shabaab militants near the town of Baraawe in southern Somalia.

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2011 military intervention in Libya

On 19 March 2011, a multi-state NATO-led coalition began a military intervention in Libya, ostensibly to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973.

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2016 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 2016.

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2017 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 2017.

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22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit

The 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (22nd MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps.

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24th Marine Expeditionary Unit

The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps.

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25 mm caliber

The 25 mm caliber is a specific size of cannon or autocannon ammunition.

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26th Marine Expeditionary Unit

The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (26th MEU) is one of seven Marine Expeditionary Units currently in existence in the United States Marine Corps.

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2nd Marine Aircraft Wing

The 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW) is the major east coast aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps and is based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.

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3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

The (3rd MAW) is the major west coast aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps.

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410th Air Expeditionary Wing

The United States Air Force's 410th Air Expeditionary Wing (410 AEW) is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Combat Command (ACC) It may be activated or inactivated at any time.

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8B

8B or VIII-B may refer to.

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90 Days

90 Days is a video news magazine produced by McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, MO and distributed at the end of every business quarter (hence the show's title) through the mail to employees and shareholders of the company in VHS format.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_AV-8B_Harrier_II

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