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1Minot Air Force Base — Part of Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) Located near: Minot, North Dakota …
2MGM-1 Matador — Matador (missile) redirects here. For the anti tank rocket, see MATADOR (weapon). Martin MGM 1 Matador Service history …
3Republic-Ford JB-2 — The Republic/Ford JB 2 LOON was a U.S. made copy of the famous German V 1 flying bomb surface to surface, pilotless flying bomb first used against England in June 1944. Wartime Development In July 1944, three weeks after German V 1 Buzz Bombs… …
4Wallops Flight Facility — (WFF) Airport codes|WAL|KWAL, located on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, is operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center primarily as a rocket launch site to support science and exploration… …
5Hardtack Teak — was an nuclear test performed during Operation Hardtack I. On 1 August, 1958, the shot reached an altitude of 78 km. Teak caused communications impairment over a widespread area in the Pacific basin. This was due to the injection of a large… …
6Zhou Enlai — This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhou. Zhou Enlai 周恩来 1st Premier of the People s Republic of China In offic …
7Plattsburgh Air Force Base — PAFB redirects here. For the military airport in Alaska with that ICAO code, see Ladd Army Airfield. For the civil use of this facility and airport information, see Plattsburgh International Airport. Plattsburgh Air Force Base …
8Anti-aircraft warfare — Anti aircraft warfare, or air defense, is any method of engaging hostile military aircraft in defence of ground objectives, ground or naval forces or denial of passage through a specific airspace region, area or anti aircraft combat zone [ The… …
9Pegasus rocket — Pegasus rockets are the winged space booster vehicles used in an expendable launch system developed by Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital). Three main stages burning solid propellant provide most thrust. The rocket is carried aloft below… …
10Cluster munition — SD2 Butterfly Bomb circa 1940. Wings rotate as bomb falls, unscrewing the arming spindle connected to the fuze A cluster munition is a form of air dropped or ground launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller sub munitions. Commonly …
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