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Spartan Security Investments (Private) Limited is a Zimbabwean owned company which specializes in finance and securities related investments. It is owned by deputy minister of finance and investment promotion of Zimbabwe , David Kudakwashe Mnangagwa .
The Spartan shields' technical evolution and design evolved from bashing and shield wall tactics. They were of such great importance in the Spartan army that while losing a sword and a spear was an exception, to lose a shield was a sign of disgrace. Not only did a shield protect the user, but it also protected the whole phalanx formation.
As the investigation continues, Riley learns that Colin is in possession of incriminating evidence against Spartan: a video of the same mercenaries from the shootout executing innocents while on assignment. When the partners track down Colin, they are attacked by the mercenaries, now revealed to be Spartan Security.
The complex provided launch and control for 30 LIM-49 Spartan anti-ballistic missiles, and 70 shorter-range Sprint anti-ballistic missiles. The deployment area of the complex covered the Minuteman launchers of the 321st Strategic Missile Wing , based at Grand Forks Air Force Base , North Dakota .
In a celebrated passage, Thucydides stresses that "most Spartan institutions have always been designed with a view to security against the Helots". [15] Aristotle compares them to "an enemy constantly sitting in wait of the disaster of the Spartans". [ 16 ]
Plutarch and Heraclides Lembus (both of whom may be using a lost work by Aristotle as a source), [citation needed] and some scholars, (such as Henri-Alexandre Wallon (1812-1904)), saw the Crypteia as a kind of secret police — a state security force organised by the ruling class of Sparta to patrol the Laconian countryside and terrorise the helots, by carrying out secret killings. [4]
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Spartan was developed directly from the preceding LIM-49 Nike Zeus, retaining the same tri-service identifier, but growing larger and longer ranged, from the Zeus' 250 nautical miles (460 km; 290 mi) to approximately 450 nautical miles (830 km; 520 mi). The Spartan was superseded by the Nike-X project, later becoming the Sentinel Program.