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[8] [9] However, Michael Heseltine, the UK's Secretary of State for Defence immediately after the conflict, stated that whilst the dazzlers had been deployed they were not used. [10] At the end of Operation Desert Storm, F-15E crews observed the Iraqi military's massacre of Kurdish civilians at Chamchamal. The pilots were forbidden from firing ...
To be legal, aerial operations must comply with the principles of humanitarian law: military necessity, distinction, and proportionality: [1] An attack or action must be intended to help in the military defeat of the enemy; it must be an attack on a military objective, and the harm caused to protected civilians or civilian property must be ...
Until 2015, flamethrowers marketed to civilians were largely nonexistent in the United States; the only flamethrowers available were M1 and M2 flamethrowers of World War II vintage. [1] Two startup companies began producing and selling flamethrowers for civilian use in the United States in 2015, Cleveland -based Throwflame (originally known as ...
In tandem with the assault weapons ban is a law that bans the manufacture, transport, disposal or possession of a "large capacity ammunition feeding device", defined as: "a magazine, belt, drum, feed strip, or similar device that: 1) has a capacity of, or that can be readily restored or converted to accept, more than ten rounds of ammunition; 2 ...
The mayor of Elyria, Ohio, has ordered an investigation after a woman alleged that police officers who raided her home had the wrong address and deployed flash-bang devices that sent her 1-year ...
A technical armed with a ZU-23 autocannon operated by the Free Syrian Army during battles against Islamic State in the eastern Qalamoun Mountains, southern Syria, 2017. An improvised fighting vehicle is an ad hoc combat vehicle resulting from modified or upgraded civilian or military non-combat vehicle, often constructed and employed by civilian insurgents, terrorists, rebels, mobsters ...
A suicide attack is a deliberate attack in which the perpetrators knowingly sacrifice their own lives as part of the attack. These attacks are often associated with terrorism or military conflicts and are considered a form of murder–suicide.
A survey sponsored by the CAR Coalition in the summer of 2023 found that over 90 percent of consumers want to choose where and by whom their vehicle is repaired, and that 75 percent would support ...