What's Wrong With The T-90S MBT's Fire-Control System?
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on Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Pakistani officials: Taliban chief is dead
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud has died, the country’s top civilian security official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. It was the government’s first categorical confirmation of the death of the feared militant, whose passing is likely to weaken, but not vanquish, the al-Qaida-linked insurgent network he led.Reports of Mehsud’s death emerged after a spate of U.S. missiles hit his stronghold in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt in mid-January. Mehsud was said to have died of wounds suffered in one of the strikes in the Waziristan region — another big victory for the CIA-led missile campaign that killed Mehsud’s predecessor just six months ago.The...
on Friday, July 23, 2010
Calif. tabs 1st woman to lead its Guard
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The first black woman to head the National Guard in any state took charge Tuesday in California, commanding the nation’s largest Guard unit.Brig. Gen. Mary Kight was sworn in by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at a former Air Force base outside Sacramento. She is the first woman to lead the 21,000 members of the state’s Army and Air National Guard.Speaking during a change-of-command ceremony at the California National Guard Mather Flight Facility, the Republican governor called Kight a pioneer for breaking gender and racial barriers during her long career.She is the state’s 45th adjutant general, assuming command from Gen. William Wade, who is leaving to help command...
on Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Florida gov: Flights continue out of Haiti
MIAMI — Hundreds of people have been flown from Haiti to Florida, even after the U.S. military halted evacuation flights for critically injured patients, the state's governor said Sunday.Gov. Charlie Crist told ABC News' "Good Morning America" on Sunday he was puzzled by the suspension, which has been in effect since Wednesday. Civilian flights and other military flights have continued.Military planes carrying 700 U.S. citizens, legal residents and other foreign nationals landed in central Florida over the past 24 hours, and three of those people required medical care at hospitals, state officials said."We're welcoming Haitians with open arms and probably done more than any other...
