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  • 1Maneuver warfare — Warfare Military history Eras Prehistoric Ancient Medieval Gunpowder Industrial …

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  • 2break — i. A maneuver ordered to a fighter to avoid being shot down. It consists of a maximum rate turn to destroy the hostile aircraft’s firing solution. ii. To “peel off” from formation. The maneuver is normally ordered when the formation comes over… …

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  • 3The Corbomite Maneuver — Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Enterprise encounters the Fesarius Episode no. Episode 10 …

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  • 426th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade — Infobox Military Unit unit name=26th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade caption=26th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade shoulder sleeve insignia dates=1917 1919 1941 1993 country= United States of America allegiance= branch=Army National Guard (Connecticut,… …

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  • 5Flanking maneuver — In military tactics, a flanking maneuver, also called a attack, is an attack on the sides of an opposing force. If a flanking maneuver succeeds, the opposing force would be surrounded from two or more directions, which significantly reduces the… …

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  • 6Rendezvous pitch maneuver — The R bar pitch maneuver (RPM), popularly called the rendezvous pitch maneuver, is a maneuver performed by the space shuttle as it rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) prior to docking. The shuttle performs a backflip that… …

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  • 7fast break — noun (basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball • Topics: ↑basketball, ↑basketball game, ↑hoops • Hypernyms: ↑break * * * noun : a basketball maneuver calculated to move the …

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  • 8Sawed-off shotgun — Boomstick redirects here. Distinguish from broomstick. For the drummer of T.A.T.u. see Steve Boomstick Wilson. A sawed off break open shotgun of the type commonly known as a Lupara …

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  • 9g-break — A display maneuver where there is a sudden change of aircraft trajectory in a lateral or upward direction from a previous straight line, normally after a low level pass before coming in for a landing. Also referred to as an upward peel off. G… …

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  • 10France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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