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The Polish defence, which anticipated principally a German land-based assault, rested on three lines of defence. The outer line included entrenched outposts (codenamed Prom, Przystań, Łazienki and Wał) which were to hold long enough for the garrison to mobilize. The second line of defence centred on five guardhouses (numbered I to V) in the ...
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The forward line of defence is Moonbase from which the three lunar Interceptor spacecraft, that fire a single explosive warhead, are launched. [6] The second line of defence includes Skydiver , a submarine mated with the submersible, undersea-launched Sky One interceptor aircraft , which attacks UFOs in Earth's atmosphere. [ 7 ]
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Contravallation: a second line of fortifications behind the circumvallation facing away from the enemy fort to protect the besiegers from attacks by allies of the besieged. Escalade : the act of scaling defensive walls or ramparts with the aid of ladders, a prominent feature of siege warfare in medieval times.
In the first line of defense, inhaled bacteria are trapped by mucus and are swept toward the pharynx and are swallowed. [1] Bacteria which penetrate the mucous layer are dealt with a second line of defense which includes antimicrobial peptides that are secreted by the surface epithelium of the respiratory tract which kill many strains of ...
The film story begins in the second half of 1984 the final months of Konstantin Chernenko era - ending in the first part of 1991 - a few months before the anti-Gorbachev's GKChP coup d'état attempt. A hero Andrey Obnorsky (Nikita Zverev), a young student-orientalist from Leningrad - along the line of the Soviet Defense Ministry falls on his ...