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The AGM-114 has been the munition of choice for airborne targeted killings that have included high-profile figures such as Ahmed Yassin ( Hamas leader ) in 2004 by the Israeli Air Force and ; Anwar al-Awlaki ( American-born Islamic cleric and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader ) in Yemen in 2011,
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The AGM-114 Hellfire is a combat-proven tactical missile system ; the missile has been in combat use since the mid-1980s.
The missile has no direct western counterpart, though, in role, it is closest to the AGM-114 Hellfire, and in guidance method, to the MGM-18 Lacrosse.
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* AGM-114 Hellfire missile, 4 Hellfire missiles for SH-60B and HH-60H and MH-60R, 8 Hellfire missiles for MH-60S Block III.
In this configuration the Hornet tested laser guidance packages, the electro-optical system designed for the GBU-8 / B and GBU-9 / B Homing Bomb System ( HOBOS ) glide bombs and the terminal guidance system for the AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missile.
One of the most unique uses of the SS. 11 was that of probably the smallest anti-shipping missile in the world, with the Swedish Army employing it in the anti-landing craft role for decades, until it was replaced by a specialized version of the AGM-114 Hellfire.
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Initial generations were primarily surveillance aircraft, but some were armed ( such as the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, which utilized AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground missiles ).
* AGM-114 Hellfires Air-to-Ground Missile ( guided missiles that destroy " hard " targets such as bunkers and tanks )
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As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.
In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.
Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.
But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.
An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.
In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.
Faulkner culminates the Southern legend perhaps more masterfully than it has ever been, or could ever be, done.
The `` approximate '' is important, because even after the order of the work has been established by the chance method, the result is not inviolable.
But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.
In the life sciences, there has been an enormous increase in our understanding of disease, in the mechanisms of heredity, and in bio- and physiological chemistry.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
The persistent horror of having a malformed child has, I believe, been reduced, not because we have gained any control over this misfortune, but precisely because we have learned that we have so little control over it.
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The munition has been obsolete since the end of World War I for anti-personnel use, when it was superseded by high-explosive shells for that role.
Each bomblet has a shaped-charge munition capable of penetrating two inches of solid steel as well as a fragmentation casing which is effective against infantry in the open.
Due to Belgium's often-complicated politics, restructuring has led to decisions seen by some as illogical, such as the decision to mount the ( very uncommon ) CMI 90 mm cannon on the Piranha 3 ( munition is very scarce and only made by a handful of manufacturers ; it will probably be supplied by Mécar ).
After the munition or bomb has been rendered safe, the Technicians will assist in the removal of the remaining parts so the area can be returned to normal.
In total since 1999, HALO has cleared over of mine contaminated land and of cluster munition contaminated land.
HALO currently has three teams and a total of 43 demining staff accredited and deployed clearing minefields and cluster munition strikes.
It can fire programmable HE munition and the turret mounted MG3 has been replaced with a stabilized FLW 200 remotely controlled weapon station.
Given its historical underpinnings, we should not be surprised that the revolution in warfare that has been brought about both by the confluence of the aerospace and the electronic revolutions, and by the off-shoot of both — the precision guided munition — is one that has been a long-time coming, back to the Second World War, back, even, to the experimenters of the First World War who attempted, however crudely, to develop " smart " weapons to launch from airships and other craft.
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