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[1] [5] The name chosen was "Recondo" for Reconnaissance Commando. The course stressed improvised demolitions, the art of patrolling and intelligence gathering, recognition of enemy vehicles, woodlands survival (including a segment on snake handling), land navigation, rappelling, firearms skills of allied and enemy weapons, and aggressive hand ...
Operation Barbarossa is the English rendering of the German "Unternehmen Barbarossa." Barbarossa or `Redbeard' (Frederick I) lived from 1123 AD to 1190 and was both King of Germany and Holy Roman emperor from 1152–90. He made a sustained attempt to subdue Italy and the papacy, but was eventually defeated at the battle of Legnano in 1176.
The VT 12 5 was used in regional traffic, with first and second class saloon seating. From 1968 the VT 12 5 bore the EDV class number 612, the VT 12 6 was redesignated as the Class 613. After initially operating from Cologne and Dortmund the DMUs were based for many years at the Hamburg-Altona railway depot and, from 1982, stationed at the ...
The onboard radio reconnaissance system was called "Coral"; this involved two computer types: "Elbrus" and several "EC-1046" computers. SSV-33 carried only light defensive weapons. These were two AK-176 76 mm guns, four AK-630 30 mm guns, and four quadruple Igla missile mounts.
U.S. Marines on a recon mission during a field training exercise in 2003. In military operations, military reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration of an area by military forces to obtain information about enemy forces, the terrain, and civil activities in the area of operations.
The variability of R Coronae Borealis was discovered by English astronomer Edward Pigott in 1795. [13] In 1935 it was the first star shown to have a different chemical composition to the Sun via spectral analysis. [17] R Coronae Borealis is the prototype of the R Coronae Borealis class of variable stars.
The brighter star, ζ 2 Coronae Borealis, is a spectroscopic triple system, consisting of three massive stars. The inner pair orbit in 1.7 days, while the outer pair orbit in 251 days. The inner pair orbit in 1.7 days, while the outer pair orbit in 251 days.