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The cavalry rides in.(Scan)
Following are extracts from a letter to TAE's editor from a young West Point-educated Army officer who has been at the center of intelligence operations connected to two of the trickiest and most successful combat actions carried out by the U.S. military in the last half centry--August 2004's Battle of Najaf and November's Battle of Falhujah. He provides details on the Fallujah fight, including the previously unreported revelation that Muslim holy warriors traffic in illicit drugs.
On November 7, Prime Minister Allawi gave the green light to the American and Iraqi military. All day long, Air Force and Marine Corps aviators shaped the battlefield with laser-guided ...
- General Dynamics participates in successful Trophy Active Protection System...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire March 31, 2006 700+ words
...Stryker equipped with Trophy destroys RPGs in live-fire tests(C)1994-2006...can meet warfighter needs today," said Marine Corps Col. Wade Hall, transformation...armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation. More...
- RPGs undeterred by soft market. (risk purchasing groups)
- Magazine article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management Mulcahy, Colleen April 3, 1995 700+ words
...there were 45 8 risk purchasing groups (RPGs) operating across the U. S., a 10 percent...stymies efforts to effectively utilize RPGs, he said. As a result, he advised using an accredited state for the domicile of new RPGs, particularly if the insurance department...
- United Defense Defeats RPGs with Close-In Counter Measure Active Protection...
- Press release article from: Business Wire September 8, 2004 700+ words
...destroyed incoming Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) during end-to-end testing at the...Defense CICM system detected launched RPGs, tracked incoming rockets, launched its countermeasures and defeated RPGs before they reached the protected system...
- General: Active Armor Prototype 'Bringing Down RPGs'.
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily August 17, 2005 700+ words
...under the rubric of FCS "are bringing down RPGs right now." If they prove effective...offering the survivability of a heavy tank. RPGs--which are cheap, plentiful and easy...Active armor would "shoot down" incoming RPGs and other projectiles an instant before...
- A sitting duck for RPGs? The Stryker may be another CF blunder.
- Magazine article from: Esprit de Corps Ferguson, Warren February 1, 2004 700+ words
...attacks from rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), we wonder if Canadian armour will fare...poorly armoured and entirely vulnerable to RPGs." American military sources suggest the...and another wounded when insurgents fired RPGs at a squad manning a weapons collection...
- United Defense Destroys RPGs with Close-In Counter Measure System.(Rocket...
- Newspaper article from: Defense Daily September 10, 2004 700+ words
...tests, the CICM system detected launched RPGs, tracked the incoming rockets, launched...The first component tests against live RPGs were conducted at the Redstone Technical...successful, affordable, near-term counter to RPGs," Carl Sullinger, United Defense CICM...
- Arms Trafficker Sentenced to 22 Years for Plot to Smuggle Shoulder-Fired...
- Newspaper article from: Defense & Aerospace Week March 25, 2009 700+ words
...to-air missiles (SAMs), rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), anti-tank guided missiles and other high-powered military...following a one-month jury trial, of conspiring to smuggle SAMs, RPGs, machine guns, and other high-powered weapons from Eastern...
- Single-state regs. urged for RPGs. (risk purchasing groups)
- Magazine article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management Brostoff, Steven December 11, 1989 700+ words
Single-State Regs. Urged For RPGs WASHINGTON--Congress should amend the Risk Retention Act to provide for single-state regulation of purchasing groups and their...