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  2. Matt Rutherford (sailor) - Wikipedia

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    Rutherford set off from Annapolis, Maryland on 13 June 2011, sailing north from the Chesapeake Bay. [1]The voyage took Rutherford up the east coast of the USA and Canada. It then took him up the west coast of Greenland into Baffin Bay, to a northerly most point of 75° 21' north before undertaking the Northwest Passage, becoming the smallest boat ever to successfully undertake the passa

  3. Holly Martin - Wikipedia

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    Holly Martin is a solo sailor and sailing vlogger best known for sailing her 27-foot sloop Gecko as part of her YouTube channel Wind Hippie Sailing. [2] [3] [4]Martin sails a Grinde 27 foot double ender sloop [2] that she purchased in Connecticut and returned to Maine where she spent over a year preparing to make her seaworthy.

  4. James Frederick - Wikipedia

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    James Frederick is a solo sailor and sailing vlogger best known for sailing his 1965 Alberg 30 Triteia as part of his YouTube channel Sailing Triteia. [2] [3] [4] Frederick was raised in New Mexico and dropped out of school at the age of 16. [2]

  5. GBU-72 - Wikipedia

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    The GBU-72 underwent a series of tests at Eglin Air Force Base. [1] [5] These included a number of ground based tests which included detonating the bomb’s warhead within an array of barriers to measure its blast and other effects, and airborne tests between July and October 2021 which included confirming "the weapon could safely release from the aircraft and validate a modified 2,000-pound ...

  6. Carrier Air Wing Eight - Wikipedia

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    On 29 August 1995, CVW-8 commenced air-to-ground offensive operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina during Operation Deliberate Force to include the first ever Navy combat use of the GBU-24 2,000-pound (910 kg) laser-guided penetrator bomb and the first combat use of the F-14 "Tomcat" to deliver air-to-ground

  7. GBU-37 GPS-Aided Munition - Wikipedia

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    The GBU-37 (Guided Bomb Unit-37) Global Positioning System Aided Munition (GAM) was developed for use with the B-2 Bomber. The bomb can penetrate hardened targets or targets buried deep underground. The first all-weather precision-guided bunker buster, it became operational in 1997.

  8. Sam Holmes (sailor) - Wikipedia

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    Sam Holmes is a vlogger and solo sailor best known for his YouTube channel Sam Holmes Sailing. [2] [3] Holmes records journeys on his YouTube channel including sailing from California to Hawaii in a Ranger 23 sailboat, [4] [5] [6] crossing the Atlantic to Europe in his Cape Dory 28. [7] Holmes created some controversy while sailing in Svalbard.

  9. Guided bomb - Wikipedia

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    GBU-10 shortly before it impacts a small boat during a training exercise. In 1962, the US Army began research into laser guidance systems and by 1967 the USAF had conducted a competitive evaluation leading to full development of the world's first laser-guided bomb, the BOLT-117, in 1968. All such bombs work in much the same way, relying on the ...