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The F-111K was based on the F-111A with longer F-111B wings, [165] FB-111 landing gear, Mark II navigation/fire control system, and British supplied mission systems. Other changes included weapons bay modifications, addition of a centerline pylon, a retractable refueling probe, provisions for a reconnaissance pallet, and a higher gross weight ...
English: Soldiers of the 38th Battalion (Ottawa), Canadian Expeditionary Force at Prospect Camp in Bermuda in 1915. The battalion was posted to the British Army Bermuda Garrison (the second Canadian battalion to serve in Bermuda during the First World War, having relieved the Royal Canadian Regiment) in place of a regular British Army battalion (the 2nd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment ...
Designed in parallel with the F-111 "Aardvark", which was adopted by the Air Force as a strike aircraft, the F-111B suffered development issues and changing Navy requirements for an aircraft with maneuverability for dogfighting. The F-111B was not ordered into production and the F-111B prototypes were used for testing before being retired.
It may have been designed to symbolize the apparent downing of an F-111 by Libyan anti-air units in the 1986 bombing. During the 2011 Libyan civil war , the sculpture was frequently noted in media coverage of televised speeches given by Gaddafi on 22 February and 20 March 2011, in which he vowed to "die a martyr" to prevent anti-government ...
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A migrant from Guatemala has been arrested for allegedly lighting a sleeping subway rider on fire in Brooklyn on Sunday morning — then watching as his innocent victim burned to death in what the ...
One of the first police officers to arrive at the scene following the death of an 86-year-old widow told a court he and colleagues made a "terrible mistake" by initially not treating the death as ...
The ship's Seasprite helicopter was diverted to sister ship HMAS Stuart and the fire was put out by the crew. [ 39 ] The breeding ground of the Kermadec Storm Petrel was discovered with the assistance of Te Mana in August 2006, when the ship transported an ornithologist to a rocky outcrop in the Kermadec Islands group, enabling him to find a nest.