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Boot Hill also appears in the first-person shooter video game Borderlands 2, located in 'The Dust', and playing home to a 'truxican standoff'. In the video game Fallout: New Vegas, Victor can say, “Next stop, Boot Hill” if provoked. Carl Perkins wrote in 1959 a song "The Ballad of Boot Hill".
A Mexican standoff is a confrontation where no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory. [1] [2] Anyone initiating aggression might trigger their own demise. At the same time, the parties are unable to extract themselves from the situation without either negotiating a truce or suffering a loss, maintaining strategic tension ...
Borderlands 2: 2K Games: February 23, 2017: Also available in Borderlands: The Handsome Collection which includes remastered versions of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel for Xbox One. The Borderlands 2 DLC Install Disc included in the Borderlands Triple Pack released in 2015 is not compatible. Bound by Flame: Focus Home Interactive
AN/SLQ-32 console aboard USS Iowa, 1984.. The initial procurement process was built around a “design to price” concept in which the final delivery cost per system was fixed in the contract.
It also has a standoff capability. During Desert Storm , all 71 GBU-15 modular glide bombs used were dropped from F-111F aircraft. Most notably, EGBU-15s were the munitions used for destroying the oil manifolds on the storage tanks to stop oil from spilling into the Persian Gulf .
The system consists of a bullet-trap tail section which slides over the muzzle of the rifle, an explosive midsection and a front standoff rod. The grenade is propelled by a normal ball or tracer round to a maximum range of 30 m (98 ft) and is detonated by the impact of the standoff rod against the door to be breached, the standoff distance allowing the blast wave to affect as much of the door ...
The UUM-125 Sea Lance, known early in development as the Common ASW Standoff Weapon, was to be an American standoff anti-submarine missile, initially intended to carry a W89 thermonuclear warhead. It was conceived in 1980 as a successor to both the UUM-44 SUBROC and RUR-5 ASROC anti-submarine missiles. The Sea Lance was to be available in two ...
The British Academy Games Awards are an annual British awards ceremony honoring "outstanding creative achievement" in the video game industry. First presented in 2004 following the restructuring of the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards, the awards are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), and are thus commonly referred to as the BAFTA Games Awards.