This, in conjunction with digital fire control / ballistic computers and digital communications, allows individual guns to disperse over a wide area and still deliver rounds on target simultaneously with the other guns in their battery.

Located in a cantonment area on the outskirts of Beale, the 7 MWS is now an Air Force Space Command ( AFSPC ) unit and it primarily uses its PAVE PAWS radar to detect submarine launched ballistic missiles and disintegrating spacecraft and space debris.

Similarly sized and positioned " trauma plates " are still used today on the front ballistic panels of most concealable vests, reducing blunt trauma and increasing ballistic protection in the center-mass heart / sternum area.

With the closing of the Nurrungar base in 1999, an area in Pine Gap was set aside for the United States Air Force's control station for Defense Support Program satellites that monitor heat emissions from missiles, giving first warning of ballistic missile launches.

With the development of the Aster Block 2 / ballistic missile defence ( BMD ), a variant of the Aster 30 missile, this will add again another distinct area in which Aster will provide defence.

By early 2010, the Alliance will have an interim capability to protect troops in a specific area against short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles ( up to 3, 000 kilometers ).

Oscillating turrets also had a large ballistic weakness in the area of the skirt and turret ring.

At first, Yangel ’ s facility served to mass-produce and further develop intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) in which area Yangel was a pioneer of storeable hypergolic fuels.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

Jet engines are generally used in cruise missiles, most commonly of the turbojet type, due to its relative simplicity and low frontal area.

From 1964 to 1973 the U. S. Air Force launched 141 Athena Missiles from the Green River launching area, near the Crystal Geyser as part of research to improve nuclear missiles.

The primary role of the Special Forces Task Group was to secure an area of western Iraq from which it was feared that SCUD missiles could be launched.

Prior to these attacks the missile's range was thought to be less than, but these attacks proved that the range exceeded with Kuwaiti military observers seeing that the missiles originated from the area and tracking them on radar along with US satellite imagery of the launch sites.

Siege weapons are considered obsolete, owing to the effectiveness of aircraft-delivered munitions and cruise missiles which have made defensive area fortifications obsolete.

Another example, is the Jewish Agency's role in supporting Sderot and the surrounding area, which has been hit hard with Kassam missiles from Gaza.

The CCAFS area had been used by the United States government since 1949 when President Harry S. Truman established the Joint Long Range Proving Grounds at Cape Canaveral to test missiles.

The esplanade is raised above the rest of the courtyard ; the vaulted area beneath it would have provided storage and could have acted as stabling and shelter from missiles.

* Defended coverage area was very limited due to the short range of the missiles used

* It provided better interception probabilities due to dense coverage by the shorter-range Sprint missiles, which were unable to cover the entire defended area under the larger and earlier proposed Sentinel program.

Some Constables were used to restrain a Protestant crowd in Derry, but others in this area joined in an exchange of petrol bombs and missiles with a Catholic crowd while another group led an attack on the Rossville Street area of the Catholic Bogside on 12 August.

The relatively new American AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon is a valuable SEAD weapon due to its fairly long standoff range which allows the launching aircraft to avoid being threatened by all but the longest-range missiles, and its relatively large area of destruction against soft targets.

Later in the game, he becomes a boss, as his actions against Banner / Hulk escalate to the point where Talbot himself is a danger to civilian safety, his strategies varying from attempting launch missiles in a civlian area to destroy the Hulk to donning a nuclear-powered Hulkbuster suit to fight him directly, intending to pass off civilian casualties as the Hulk's fault once his foe has been dealt with.

GAMA was a maximum security QRA ( Quick Reaction Alert ) area with 6 large above ground shelters in which fully operational cruise missiles were stored.

Alan and Wesley are nearly killed twice by Victor Zahn, an enemy in a V-22 like helicopter, they are rescued by Alicia who then directs them to the area where the missiles are located.

In the Irish Poor Report of 1836 the Deputy Constable of the Township of Manchester, Joseph Sadler Thomas, found that the Irish were so fiercely neighbourly in Little Ireland ( located on the other side of the River Medlock, just north of Hulme Ward ) and the larger Irish area of Angel Meadow ( north-east of Victoria Station, on the other side of central Manchester from Hulme ) that: " if a legal execution of any kind is to be made, either for rent or debt, or for taxes, the officer who serves the process almost always applies to me for assistance to protect him ; and, in affording that protection, my officers are often maltreated by brickbats and other missiles ".

The first regiment of " Topol " missiles employing a modernized mobile command center ( in the area of Irkutsk ) were put on alert on May 27, 1988.

The women at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp were particularly against the placing of US cruise missiles there, something they claimed made the area a direct target of Soviet Union aggression.

Due to the NVAF's very limited number of MiG-21's, their common tactic was to approach an American formation at maximum reasonable speed, fire their missiles in volleys, and extend ( exit area ) at maximum speed to avoid engagement.

* Fewer missiles required for defense of a larger area

They had been unable to find detailed maps of the area, which contained the Soviets ' first military plutonium production facility at Mayak, making knowledge of the area vital in the event of war with the Soviet Union.

On September 17 the Soviets invaded eastern Poland, forcing the Polish government and military to abandon their plans for a long-term defense in the Romanian bridgehead area.

Telemetry was also a source for the Soviets, who operated listening ships in Cardigan Bay to eavesdrop on UK missile tests performed in the area.

The Soviets transformed the area into a centre for cotton and silk production, and relocated tens of thousands of people to the city from around the Soviet Union.

The West would henceforth regard no area of the world as destined to forego its liberty simply because the Soviets claimed it to be within their sphere of influence.

The Nazis distributed propaganda in the area, revealing crimes committed by the Soviets in Eastern Poland and saying that Jews might have supported them.

Countering a single Midgetman would require the Soviets to blanket an area around its last known position with warheads.

By the end of that same day, 30 April, or during 1 May the Soviets had captured the Reichstag, which was of huge symbolic importance to the Soviets, and one of the last German strong-points defending the area around the Reich Chancellery and the Führerbunker.

Article IV of the Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship allowed the Soviets to invade and occupy Persia, should they believe foreign troops were using it as a staging area for an invasion of Soviet territory.

Earlier maps and plans indicated that the Soviets would occupy an area that included the Potsdam-approved final Soviet Zone along with all of the 1937 German territory east of the Oder-Neisse Line.

Byrnes had some questionable history: he agreed at Potsdam in July 1945 to " temporarily assign " an area of southern Silesia to " Polish Administration " which was more than the Poles and Soviets had expected to be agreed to.

It was not thought possible for the Soviets to deploy large number of troops in this rugged and almost roadless area, but the Soviets deployed an entire division which advanced along the road between Suojärvi and Tolvajärvi ( now Tolvayarvi, Russia ).

The area was captured by the Soviets during the Winter War in 1940 but returned to Finland.

According to the Soviet law, all residents of the annexed area, dubbed by the Soviets as citizens of former Poland, automatically acquired Soviet citizenship.

However, on October 12 of the same year the Soviets withdrew and transferred the area to the Germans, in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet Alliance.

From 1939-1941 the Soviet Union controlled the area, and afterwards the German Nazis took control after expelling the Soviets from Poland, breaking the pact that the Germans and Soviets had signed.

The area was defended by 10, 000 Ismaili militiamen, increasing to 18, 000 by 1992, who sided with the Soviets due to differences with the Islamist opposition.

According to Mohammad Hassan Kakar, a historian and personal survivor of the war, the region was the site of the largest attacks by the Soviets throughout the war ; he further states that the military caused extensive casualties and denuded, looted, and vandalized the area.

It has been suggested the primary target of the Soviet offensive was bridgehead on the Vistula river in central Poland, and that Operation Bagration was to create a crisis in Belorussia to divert German mobile reserves to the central sectors as a part of Maskirovka, removing them from the Lublin-Brest, Lvov – Sandomierz area where the Soviets intended to undertake the Lvov – Sandomierz Offensive and Lublin – Brest Offensive.

The Soviets left four tank armies in the L ' vov-Peremyshl area and allowed the Germans to know it.