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The terms "soft target" and "hard target" are flexible in nature and the distinction between the two is not always clear. [2] However, typical "soft targets" are civilian sites where unarmed people congregate in large numbers; examples include national monuments, hospitals, schools, sporting arenas, hotels, cultural centers, movie theaters, cafés and restaurants, places of worship, nightclubs ...
1983 Douglas Crabbe drove a 25-tonne Mack truck into the crowded bar of a motel at the base of Uluru on 18 August 1983. Five people were killed, and sixteen were seriously injured. 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, Lebanon (building ramming and exploding) 1984 Los Angeles attack (ramming people) [27]
More recently the focus of HVM has expanded to reduce the potential for vehicle ram attacks directed at crowded events and places. [18] Recent non-VBIED (i.e. vehicle as a weapon) attacks against pedestrians include: The 2016 Nice truck attack; The 2016 Ohio State University attack; The 2016 Berlin truck attack; The 2017 Jerusalem attack
“It just takes one point of failure for a vehicle to get around and cause destruction,” said Ryan Houser, whose 2022 study in the British Medical Journal found that out of the 257 recorded ...
Bourbon Street reopened on Thursday to a light crowd as tourists and locals veered away from the world-famous destination after an attacker plowed through crowds of revealers, killing more than a ...
The new book 'The Stadium' chronicles the interaction of people, places and ideas, segregation both legal and de facto, mingling and isolation, money and power. Stadiums are more than a symbol.
СAMERTON: Is a global vehicle tracking system, control and tracking, identification of probable routes and places of the most frequent appearance of a particular vehicle, integrated with a distributed network of radar complexes of photo-video fixation and road surveillance camera. [8]
Drone activity caused officials to close airspace over one of the United States’ most critical Air Force bases for almost four hours late Friday and early Saturday, according to a base ...