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A new weapon, the AGM-131 SRAM II, began development in 1981, intended to arm the resurrected B-1B, but it was cancelled in 1991 by then president George H. W. Bush along with most of the U. S. Strategic Modernization effort ( including Peacekeeper Mobile ( Rail ) Garrison, Small ICBM and Minuteman III modernization ) in an effort by the U. S. to ease nuclear pressure on the disintegrating Soviet Union.
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The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.
But we had hardly started to adjust our thinking to this new uranium weapon when we were faced with the hydrogen bomb.
It was later selected, with some controversy, to be the primary weapon for the Canadian Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor, along with the new Astra fire-control system.
ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.
Speaker and Coveleski were aging and the Yankees were rising with a new weapon: Babe Ruth and the home run.
It introduces new enemies, a new final boss ( The Queen ), a new weapon, and changes to the script to make it easier to mod.
The new weapon would prove its worth in the Battle of Mylae, the first Roman naval victory, and would continued to do so in the following years, especially in the huge Battle of Cape Ecnomus.
He introduced a centralized, dedicated, and disciplined military force not seen in the region, with a new weapon in the short stabbing-spear.
Shaka is credited with introducing a new variant of the traditional weapon, discarding the long, spindly throwing spear and instituting a heavy-bladed, short-shafted stabbing spear.
Although the new treaty called for ten more years of trade between the U. S. and the British Empire, and gave American merchants certain guarantees that would have been good for business, Jefferson refused to give up the potential weapon of commercial warfare against Britain and was unhappy that it did not end the hated British practice of impressment of American sailors.
The SNABB was a modification that could be made to virtually any bolt action rifle allowing it to be converted into a self loading weapon, thus saving money as compared to manufacturing new weapons from scratch.
This weapon, influenced by the M1 Garand rifle, lost out to the new Simonov carbine which would be eventually adopted as the SKS ; but it became a basis for his entry in an assault rifle competition in 1946.
The weapon system originally planned by the OICW project was put on hold around the turn of century, in favor of a simpler new 5. 56 mm rifle project that offered less far-reaching improvements.
The German Army recognized that to break the stalemate of trench warfare, a light, hand-held automatic weapon was needed that would enable individual soldiers to move with the gun to new firing positions.
As a result, armies began to issue a new weapon to artillery crews and tank crews: the personal defense weapon, a compact submachine gun-like firearm which incorporates some of the advantages of a carbine, in that it can fire armor-piercing, higher-powered ammunition.
And she told me that my world was going to explode under me, someday, and God help me if I didn't have some weapon to meet the new world.
Once the Komarrans are defeated, the plot and the new weapon are classified at the highest levels possible — meaning that any information about Ekaterin's husband's death that might exonerate Miles in a subsequent inquiry cannot be disclosed.
During the last year of this Civil War, 1949, the United States increased its military aid to the Greek Government by introducing a new weapon to finish off the war: napalm B.
Truman did not tell Stalin of the weapon until 25 July when he advised Stalin that America had " a new weapon of unusually destructive force.
Truman had mentioned an unspecified " powerful new weapon " to Stalin during the conference.
Threewave CTF is a partial conversion consisting of new maps, a new weapon ( a grappling hook ), power-ups, some new textures and new rules of game play.
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Along with the new screen, Apple changed the SRAM memory to less expensive and more power-hungry pseudo-SRAM ( which reduced the total RAM expansion to 8 MB ) and lowered the price.
In 2010 SRAM have released a new groupset, Apex, which is aimed at a more casual level.
Antifuse PLDs are one time programmable in contrast to other PLDs that are SRAM based and which may be reprogrammed to fix logic bugs or add new functions.
NRAM is one of a variety of new memory systems, many of which claim to be " universal " in the same fashion as NRAM – replacing everything from Flash to DRAM to SRAM.
After the resurrection of the B-1 program ( as B-1B ) in 1981, it was decided to develop an entirely new weapon, the SRAM II.
One new feature of SRAM II was a lighter, simpler, and more reliable two-pulse solid rocket motor designed by Hercules for increased range and age stability.
Conceptually, HSM is analogous to the cache found in most computer CPUs, where small amounts of expensive SRAM memory running at very high speeds is used to store frequently used data, but the least recently used data is evicted to the slower but much larger main DRAM memory when new data has to be loaded.
In 1983, B-52 crews began training with a new weapon system, the SRAM ( Short Range Attack Missile ) and later, in 1985, the ALCM ( Air Launched Cruise Missile ).
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In 1944, van Vogt moved to Hollywood, California, where his writing took on new dimensions after World War II.
The Prince of Asturias, Alfonso, is the person chosen to develop the new roadmap proposed by Canovas, which led to the June 1870 abdication of Queen Isabel II in favour of her son Prince Alfonso.
Thus, there was seen a need for a new law that would ensure the continuance of the succession following the death of the last legal heir under the Bill of Rights, being Princess Anne, guaranteeing the line of succession would continue in the Protestant line, and excluding any possible claims by the deposed James II or his son and daughter, James Francis Edward and Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart.
A new forum was built in the name of Arcadius, on the seventh hill of Constantinople, the Xērolophos, in which a column was begun to commemorate his ' victory ' over Gainas ( although the column was only completed after Arcadius ' death by Theodosius II ).
For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788 he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own ; and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790 he had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage.
The Cuttle Cart II has enabled more people to play the entire 2600 and 7800 library on an original system as well as binaries of unreleased games and new homebrew titles.
The new system ( referred to within Atari Corp. as the " Lynx II ") featured rubber hand grips and a clearer backlit color screen with a power save option ( which turned off the LCD panel's backlighting ).
A follow-on Block II upgrade added a new rear receiver allowing the missile to receive mid-course correction from the launching aircraft.
Shortly thereafter, however, Constantine's son, the new Roman Emperor Constantius II, renewed the order for Athanasius ' banishment in 338.
In 1448, citizens rebelled in the " Berlin Indignation " against the construction of a new royal palace by Frederick II Irontooth.
After World War II, Bulgaria followed the Soviet model of economic development more closely than any other East Bloc country with becoming one of the first members of Comecon ; the new regime shifted the economy from mainly agrarian type towards industrial economy and much of the labour force from the countryside to the city, providing workers for new large-scale industrial complexes.
On the urgings of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaeologus a new crusade was organized to defeat him.
Henry II ordered the building of a new cathedral, which was consecrated May 6, 1012.
After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.
King Louis II died at Mohács, and in 1527, and the Hungarian parliament elected János Szapolyai as the new king of Hungary.
In 980, the emperor Basil II received an unusual gift from Prince Vladimir of Kiev: 6, 000 Varangian warriors, which Basil formed into a new bodyguard known as the Varangian Guard.
When Pope John XXIII abolished the limit, he began to add new churches to the list, which Popes Paul VI and John Paul II continued to do.
The new king of Assyria Sargon II attacked and deposed Marduk-apla-iddina II in 710 BC.
The situation continued to deteriorate, with Leo demanding the convocation of a new council and Emperor Theodosius II refusing to budge, all the while appointing bishops in agreement with Dioscorus.
However, the rate of new civil wars had not increased appreciably ; the drastic rise in the number of ongoing wars after World War II was a result of the tripling of the average duration of civil wars to over four years.
After World War II, from the late 40s until the early 60s, there was a resurgence in interest in home crafts, particularly in the United States, with many new and imaginative crochet designs published for colorful doilies, potholders, and other home items, along with updates of earlier publications.
The movement became less active as post-World War II optimism led to new movements in art and literature.
Luz II, Ltd. plans to use the solar array to test new technology for the three new solar plants to be built in California for Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
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