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A USAF A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft in flight. An attack aircraft, strike aircraft, or attack bomber is a tactical military aircraft that has a primary role of carrying out airstrikes with greater precision than bombers, and is prepared to encounter strong low-level air defenses while pressing the attack. [1]
The origins of the Attacker can be traced back to a wartime fighter jet project performed on behalf of the Royal Air Force (RAF). Many of the design's key features and performance requirements were stipulated under Specification E.10/44 (the E standing for experimental) issued by the Air Ministry during 1944, which had called for the development of a jet fighter furnished with a laminar flow ...
The Cobra was a quickly-made helicopter based on the UH-1 Iroquois and was introduced in the mid-1960s as an interim design until the U.S. Army's "Advanced Aerial Fire Support System" helicopter could be delivered. The Army selected the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne, a more capable attack aircraft with greater speed for initial production.
The final decision on the EA-18G conversion, at a cost of A$300 million, would be made in 2012. [125] An Australian F/A-18F during a 2017 combat mission in the Middle East. The first RAAF F/A-18F made its first flight from Boeing's factory in St. Louis, Missouri, on 21 July 2009. [126] RAAF crews began training in the U.S. in 2009.
MidwayUSA (formerly Ely Arms, Inc.) was a small start-up gun shop in Columbia, Missouri that opened on June 18, 1977. The business was opened by Larry Potterfield, with his next younger brother Jerry, in a 151 square metres (1,630 sq ft) metal, pole-frame building.
An MTA subway operator is “fighting for his life” after he was stabbed multiple times Tuesday morning in Brooklyn by a transit recidivist, union officials said.
The state of Missouri on Tuesday evening executed Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams, who maintained he was innocent in a 1998 killing and whose death sentence had garnered widespread opposition ...
Rocketdyne's next major development was its first all-new design, the S-3D, which had been developed in parallel to the V-2 derived A series. The S-3 was used on the Army's Jupiter missile design, essentially a development of the Redstone, and was later selected for the competitor Air Force Thor missile.