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The Ministry of National Defense acquired 54 Chiron systems for over 90 million dollars from LIG Nex1 through a Government to Government contract. [121] [122] All 54 Chiron systems with 162 missiles were delivered by November 2024. [123] First systems delivered on 19 June 2024 to 2nd Infantry Division. [124] Mistral 3: Man-portable air-defense ...
The FIM-92 Stinger is an American man-portable air-defense system (MANPADS) that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM). It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of ground vehicles, and from helicopters and drones as the Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS).
With instruction pipelining, memory interleaving and virtual address translation, [26] the BESM-6 was advanced for the era; however, it was less well known at the time than the MESM. [11] The Ministry of the Electronics Industry was established in 1965, ending the Ministry of Radio Technology's primacy in computer production. [12]
In October 1929, the John Reed Club was founded by eight staff members of the New Masses magazine to support leftist and Marxist artists and writers. They included: Mike Gold, Walt Carmon, William Gropper, Keene Wallis, Hugo Gellert, Morris Pass, and Joseph Pass.
Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. (born May 9, 1956) is an American serial killer and accomplice to murder convicted in 1974 of the murder of six of the twenty-eight known victims of the Houston Mass Murders, which occurred in Houston and Pasadena, Texas, between 1970 and 1973.
Pikuach nefesh (Hebrew: פיקוח נפש), which means "saving a soul" or "saving a life," is the principle in Halakha (Jewish law) that the preservation of human life overrides virtually any other religious rule of Judaism.
The Buddhist crisis (Vietnamese: Biến cố Phật giáo) was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam between May and November 1963, characterized by a series of repressive acts by the South Vietnamese government and a campaign of civil resistance, led mainly by Buddhist monks.