The 1986 film The Delta Force starred Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin as leaders of an elite squad of special forces troops tasked with retaking a plane hijacked by Lebanese terrorists.

Launch of Deep Space 1 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17-A on the Delta II | Delta II 7326-9. 5 Star 37FM

HK provides firearms for many military and paramilitary units, like the Special Air Service, U. S. Navy SEALs, Delta Force, FBI HRT, the German KSK and GSG 9 and many other counter-terrorist and hostage rescue teams.

However, the elite Delta Force and other special operations units have fielded the HK416 in combat, and Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has called for a " free and open competition " to determine whether the army should buy the HK416 or continue to purchase more M4 carbines.

His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

* The Delta Force ( 1986 )

Odyssey was launched April 7, 2001 on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and reached Mars orbit on October 24, 2001, at 2: 30 a. m. UTC ( October 23, 7: 30 p. m. PDT, 10: 30 p. m. EDT ).

The Heckler & Koch HK416 has been in use by Delta Force since 2004.

There is a Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta region designated " Restore Hope.

All three were the ship designation and Force names in R-Type Delta.

One of the most famous was Whitcomb's personal work on the re-design of the Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, a U. S. Air Force jet fighter that was demonstrating performance considerably worse than expected.

* Delta Force: Black Hawk Down: Team Sabre ( expansion ) – ( 2004 ) ( PC )

In August 1993 a four man SEAL sniper team was deployed to Mogadishu to work alongside the Delta Force as part of Task Force Ranger in the search for Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid.

* A 36-wheeled transport trailer, the Orbiter Transfer System, originally built for the U. S. Air Force's launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ( since then converted for Delta IV rockets ) would transport the orbiter from the landing facility to the launch pad, which allowed both " stacking " and launch without utilizing a separate VAB-style building and crawler-transporter roadway.

Teams Juliet and India are primarily from US Army Delta Force, and they were to take positions to allow the north and south of the Shahi-Kot Valley and the approaches from Gardez to be observed.

* Pete Blaber " The Mission the Men and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander " US Army Colonel, Retired 2006.

A Delta II ELV launching the Dawn ( spacecraft ) | Dawn spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 | CCAFS SLC-17

On October 3, 1993, by the order of President Bill Clinton, a force of United States Army Rangers and Delta Force operators set out to capture several officials of Aidid's militia in an area of the Somali capital city of Mogadishu, controlled by him.

In 1980, Brzezinski planned Operation Eagle Claw, which was meant to free the hostages in Iran using the newly created Delta Force and other Special Forces units.

At the time of his death, he was a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army's premiere special operations unit, the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( 1SFOD-D ), or " Delta Force ".

He joined the U. S. Army that same year at age 18 and after serving with the 2nd Battalion of the 10th Special Forces Group he was chosen to join the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta ( 1SFOD-D ), or " Delta Force ", as a sniper.

Gordon was deployed to Mogadishu, Somalia with other Delta members in the summer of 1993 as part of Task Force Ranger.

Gordon and his Delta Force sniper teammates Sergeant First Class Randall Shughart and Sergeant First Class Brad Hallings, who were providing sniper cover from the air, wanted to be dropped at the second crash site in order to protect the four critically wounded crew, despite the fact that large numbers of armed, hostile Somalis were converging on the area.

Pagan Publishing has released a series of supplements in a similar vein, by the name Delta Green, that is set in the 1990s ( although later supplements add support for playing closer to the present day ).

Chaosium has licensed other publishers to create supplements using their rule system, notably including Delta Green by Pagan Publishing.

The recent increase of catfish farming in the Mississippi Delta has brought about an increase in its usage in Cajun cuisine in the place of the more traditional wild-caught trout ( the saltwater species ) and red fish.

Among the Igbo of Nigeria-especially Enugu, Anambra, Imo, Abia, Ebonyi, Edo and Delta states of the country-Obinna finds Osu caste system has been and continues to be a major social issue.

The reduction in annual silt deposits has contributed to rising water tables and increasing soil salinity in the Delta, the erosion of the river's banks in Upper Egypt, and the erosion of the alluvial fan along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.

The badly maintained road network has expanded rapidly to over 21, 000 miles, covering the Nile Valley and Nile Delta, Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts, the Sinai, and the Western oases.

It has also annexed adjacent tracts of land in Delta Charter Township and Windsor Township in Eaton County to the west and Delhi Charter Township in Ingham County to the south.

General Motors has offices and a hi-tech manufacturing facility in Lansing and several manufacturing facilities immediately outside the city, as well, in nearby Lansing and Delta townships.

Union College has also used Minerva as the name of their new academic and social " Third Space " program, the Minerva House System ; and, also here, Minerva is the goddess of Theta Delta Chi.

The country has two major rail lines: one connects Lagos on the Bight of Benin and Nguru in the northern state of Yobe ; the other connects Port Harcourt in the Niger Delta and Maiduguri in the northeastern state of Borno.

Port Harcourt, a transshipment port located 66 kilometers from the Gulf of Guinea along the Bonny River in the Niger Delta, handles about 815, 000 tons of cargo each year and also has a railway connection.

Due to the great distance from Federation space, the Delta Quadrant is unexplored and Voyager truly is going where no man has gone before.

As the ship sets out on its projected 75-year journey home, the crew passes through regions belonging to various species indigenous to the Delta Quadrant, such as the barbaric and belligerent Kazon ; the organ-harvesting, disease-ravaged Vidiians ; the nomadic hunter-race the Hirogen ; the fearsome, scorpion-like Species 8472 from a fluid-space realm ; and most notably the Borg, as Voyager has to move through large areas of Borg-controlled space in later seasons.

Their territory has a spherical shape with a small tail shape extension heading to the Delta Quadrant.

Located at the heart of the Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai has the world ’ s busiest container port, which handled 29. 05 million TEUs in 2010.

Large numbers of Egyptians from the Nile Valley and Delta have moved to the area to work in tourism, while at the same time development has negatively affected the native Sinai Bedouin population.

Raimi has included a 1973 yellow Oldsmobile Delta 88 automobile ( nicknamed " The Classic ") in every film including The Quick and the Dead (" Somewhere ... somewhere hidden.

Since 1960, when the big pumps at the head of the California Aqueduct in the Delta began their operation, the outflow of fresh water into the Pacific has been reduced to a trickle leaving the fish confused as to where to go, resulting in many generations dying off because they have not been able to find their way upstream.

Thiokol's extensive family of mostly titanium-cased Star space motors has been widely used, especially on Delta launch vehicles and as spin-stabilized upper stages to launch satellites from the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle.

Meridian Delta is backed by the American billionaire Philip Anschutz, who has interests in oil, railways, and telecommunications, as well as a string of sports-related investments.

Delta modulation, in particular pure DM has very few practical uses.

Memphis International Airport has seen declining passenger and aircraft movements due to cutbacks by Delta Air Lines at the airport.

Delta Air Lines has announced the closing of its Memphis pilot base in 2012.