The Trigati soon exits hyperspace, approaches Babylon 5, and launches fighters.

Babylon 5 activates defenses and launches fighters, but Sheridan has doubts as to whether the Trigati really intends to attack.

He is suspicious because during the Earth-Minbari War the Minbari ships used stealth technology which made their ships impossible to detect on targeting sensors, yet the Babylon 5 sensors can target both the Trigati and her fighters.

Sheridan realized at the last minute that the Trigati was trying to provoke them into an attack when he saw that the Earth Alliance equipment could lock on to the Minbari fighters ( during the war, the Minbari had always jammed Earth Alliance scanners ).

Sheridan believes that the Trigati may attack the Babylon 5 station in revenge for him being named the new commander.

The Trigati was a fictional space vessel which featured in the Babylon 5 episode " Points of Departure.

Then the Trigati appeared at Babylon 5.

The commander of the Trigati contacted Babylon 5, and demanded that Kalain be released.

In 2259, after John Sheridan took command of Babylon 5, the Trigati reappeared and tried to provoke Sheridan into firing on them in the hopes of restarting the Earth-Minbari War.

The other Sharlin disabled the Trigati by slicing off its aft fin, part of the gravimetic drive system.

The other Sharlin disabled the Trigati by slicing off its tail fin, part of the gravimetic drive system.

Sheridan then receives an incoming message from General William Hague, the Chairman of the EarthForce Joint Chiefs of Staff informing him of sightings of a renegade Minbari warcruiser, the Trigati, and orders for " one other mission.

When the Trigati tried to leave the area, the other cruiser fired upon it, disabled her.

Sheridan soon learns that the Trigati has been sighted in hyperspace near the station.

The Trigati had participated in the historic Battle of the Line, the final battle of the Earth-Minbari War ten years earlier.

When the Grey Council suddenly gave the order to surrender when the Minbari were on the verge of total victory, the Trigati had refused to surrender.

Sheridan believes that the re-appearance of the Trigati is a bad sign, especially since the Minbari still resent him as the " Starkiller ", the human who destroyed their flagship, the Black Star, during the war.

The Trigati commander Kalain is arrested while apparently trying to kill Delenn.

Sheridan tells Ivanova to send a signal via laser beam into hyperspace ; the signal alerts another Minbari warcruiser, which exits hyperspace and orders the Trigati to surrender.

Unable to escape, the Trigati destroys itself rather than surrender.

Soon after his arrival, in " Points of Departure ," the Minbari ship Trigati, which had disappeared during the Battle of the Line, reappeared and tried to provoke him into firing upon them.

The Trigati was at the Battle of the Line.

However, another Minbari war cruiser came through the jump gate, and demanded the Trigati surrender.

At that point the cruiser ordered the Trigati to prepare for boarding.

Many in the warrior caste considered the Trigati and her crew to be heroes and martyrs.

The Trigati is an important example as it highlighted a fundamental weakness of the Sharlin design.

As the Sharlin design has no other propulsion system, the Trigati was completely disabled.

These rules did allow the fighters an advantage not enjoyed by today's boxers: They permitted the fighter to drop to one knee to begin a 30-second count at any time.

In the dogfights over Spain, the latest Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters did well, as did the Soviet Polikarpov I-16.

Late in the war, Japan did begin to produce new fighters such as the Nakajima Ki-84 and the Kawanishi N1K to replace the venerable Zero, but these were produced only in small numbers, and in any case by that time Japan lacked trained pilots or sufficient fuel to mount a sustained challenge to Allied fighters.

NORAD insisted to the 9 / 11 Commission that fighters would have intercepted Flight 93 before it reached its target in Washington, D. C., but the commission disagreed, stating that " NORAD did not even know the plane was hijacked until after it had crashed " and concluding that had it not crashed it probably would have arrived in Washington by 10: 23.

Arafat did not return to Lebanon after his second expulsion, though many Fatah fighters did.

Maj. Gen. Frank Hagenbeck did confirm that al-Qaeda fighters were seen ( on live video feed from a Predator drone orbiting the firefight ) chasing Roberts, and later dragging his body away from the spot where he fell.

While many hoped for an immediate rematch, Taylor moved up in weight in his next bout and the fighters did not meet again until 1994 when Chávez dominated and then knocked out a faded Taylor in eight rounds.

Shortages in equipment with spare parts almost impossible to obtain in Burma along with the slow introduction of replacement fighter aircraft were continual impediments although the AVG did receive 50 replacement P-40E fighters from USAAF stocks that were originally scheduled for shipment to Great Britain but cancelled due to the Tomahawk's inferior flight performance against German fighters.

Then when he did, the rowdy tactics got under way and ended only when either both were sprawled on the canvas still wrestling each other, or the referee was outside the ring trying pull the boys apart or both fighters and official were entangled in a pretzel formation on the ring floor.

Introduced on 1 May 1939, the term did specifically exclude the defensive anti-bomber role ( leaving it for the light fighters ), and envisaged a heavy fighter for offensive missions: escorting the bombers, long-range fighter suppression, and ground attack.

Other forces did not have the pressing need to move to the jet engine ; Britain and the U. S. were facing enemies with aircraft of even lower performance than their existing night fighters.

The international reaction to the Yugoslav and Belarusian report on one hand, ( which supported the view that those killed were KLA fighters, not civilians as claimed by the Kosovo-Albanians and NATO ) and that of the EU expert team on the other, ( which did not find any evidence to suggest that the dead were combatants ) differed considerably, not least in the NATO-countries who were preparing for war against Yugoslavia.

Since the times of World War I and into the interbellum, other classes of aircraft, light bombers, medium bombers, dive bombers, reconnaissance, fighters, fighter-bombers, could and did perform air strikes in the battlefield environment.

The F6F did well against Japanese fighters, and proved that with the right tactics and teamwork the Japanese Zero need not be considered a superior enemy.

Shortages in equipment with spare parts almost impossible to obtain in Burma along with the slow introduction of replacement fighter aircraft were continual impediments although the AVG did receive 50 replacement P-40E fighters from USAAF stocks toward the end of its combat tour.

In addition, some local leaders simply did not want jet fighters operating in their communities.

The development of guided missiles was thought to render cannons unnecessary and a full generation of fighters was built without them, however the U. S. Air Force discovered during the Vietnam War that there was still a need for them, particularly for firing warning shots, and for targets that did not warrant the expenditure of a ( much costlier ) missile and so all fighters since have been so equipped.

The British and the US experimented with jet-powered seaplane fighters such as the Saunders-Roe SR. A / 1 and the F2Y Sea Dart but despite some successes ( the US fighter became the only supersonic seaplane to date ), these did not enter service.

At first, Tacfarinas did not appear to be a great threat ; his initial band of fighters was composed mainly of robbers and rebels.

He recalled that most Soviet fighters did not have proper gunsights, and their pilots resorted to drawing them on the windshield by hand.