...year a decision on the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) plea to withdraw Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi's name from the Bofors gun deal pay off case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja in an in-chamber hearing...

In this article: Bofors, Rajiv Gandhi, Central Bureau of Investigation, Bofors gun, Ottavio Quattrocchi, and Supreme Court

This article is about the missile system. For other uses, see Chaparral (disambiguation) MIM-72A/M48 Chaparral is a US Army self-propelled surface-to-air missile system based on the AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile system. The launcher...

In this article: Mim-72 Chaparral, US Army, Air Defense Artillery, Mim-46 Mauler, Fim-43 Redeye, M61 Vulcan, and Fim-92 Stinger

...at the Sary Shagan antiballistic missile defense test range on 4 March 1961. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the United States Project Nike air defense program focused initially on bombers, then ballistic missiles. In the 1950s, the...

In this article: NATO, United States, Nike Zeus, Missile Defense Agency, BMDO, Soviet Union, India, and S-300V

The RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) is a ship based anti-ballistic missile used by the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Although primarily designed as an anti-ballistic missile, the SM-3 has also been employed in an anti-satellite...

In this article: Rim-161 Standard Missile 3, United States Navy, Barack Obama, Pacific Ocean, Israel, Kinetic energy, USS Russell, USS Lake Erie, USS Decatur, and Ticonderoga-class

...(stainless) steel and consisted of ten waterproof compartiments. For air defence, the ships were equipped with one double barrel AK-230 30 mm gun and one double barrel AK -725 57 mm gun. The Ak-725 double 57 mm AA gun, designed in 1959,...

In this article: Indonesian Navy, NATO, Ak-230, and Chaff

...radar and Army personnel when it was an active Nike Hercules missile installation from 1959 to 1979. Veterans gather at historic Nike missile site COLD WAR RELICS: Above Eagle River , site summit is still treasured by many. Published:...

In this article: Nike missile, Anchorage, Eagle River, Nike, and National Park Service

...frigates. Naval local and zone defence - Integrated Principle Anti-Air Missile System ( PAAMS ) using Aster 15 and Aster 30 missiles , selected by British, French and Italian navies. PAAMS delivered by EUROPAAMS consortium, another...

In this article: MBDA Aster, Paams, Thales Group, France, Republic of Singapore Navy, French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, Exocet, Brahmos missile, MBDA, and Eurosam

SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missiles, one of the most widely deployed SAM systems in the world RIM-161 of the United States Navy A Surface to Air Missile ( SAM ) or ground-to-air missile (GTAM) is a missile designed to be launched from...

In this article: Ticonderoga-class cruisers, Surface-to-air missile, Wasserfall, and United States Navy

...say. TCE may have polluted many more missile sites than the corps is aware. The corps has evaluated a total of 395 former ICBM and Nike missile sites since the Formerly Used Defense Sites, or FUDS, program began in the early 1980s.

In this article: Wyoming, California, Nike, Trichloroethylene, Nike missile, Cancer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Air Force

... AZ 85226 (I-10 and Loop 202); OneNeck Corporate Headquarters , 5301 N. Pima Road , Suite 100, Scottsdale, AZ , 85250 (Loop 101 and Chaparral ); Honeywell , 21111 19th Ave , Phoenix, AZ 85027; SRP Corporate Headquarters , 1521 N Project Dr. ,...

In this article: Arizona, Texas Instruments, ITT Technical Institute, Honeywell, and Tucson

...fighting vehicles in the U.S. Army , and was similar in concept to successful Soviet and European tracked systems such as the ZSU-23-4 and Gepard . However, despite the use of many off the shelf technologies, a series of technical...

In this article: Ford Aerospace, Mim-72 Chaparral, US Army, M247 Sergeant York, Bofors, Gregg Easterbrook, and Fort Bliss

...providing torpedo boat destroyer "shotgun" escort for the Gulf of Tonkin PIRAZ station. PIRAZ cruisers carried long-range RIM-2 Terrier or RIM-8 Talos surface-to-air missiles to defend their stations. Each PIRAZ cruiser was accompanied on...

In this article: Piraz, North Vietnam, USS Chicago, Rim-8 Talos, SH-3 Sea King, SH-2 Seasprite, Distinguished Service Medal, and USS Wainwright

...radar for the gunsight, its firing range being too small to justify a larger tracking radar. VADS was intended to operate in concert with the MIM-72 Chaparral , which combined the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile with a more heavily modified version...

In this article: United States Army, Mim-72 Chaparral, Fim-92 Stinger, United States, Mim-104 Patriot, M1097 Avenger, Air Defense Artillery, and US Marine Corps

...and thus offers faster reaction time than the Russian AK-630, but Type 730 CIWS lacks the local manual control such as that on AK-230. Type 730 CIWS is fully compatible with Chinese and European combat data systems such as ZKJ-1, ZKJ-4,...

In this article: Type 730 CIWS, Derivative, Thomson-CSF, Gatling gun, General Electric, Code name, Sagem, Gsh-6-30, Gau-8/a Avenger, and Ak-230

Old missile sites are silent reminders of a tense time The Nike Sports Complex in Naperville , a former Nike missile site. (Tribune photo by Alex Garcia / May 8, 2009) Confession: I've never loved history. To me, the stuff we were forced...

In this article: Naperville, Nike missile, and Argonne National Laboratory

The 1st Surface to Air Missiles Brigade "General Nicolae Dascalescu" (Brigada 1 Rachete Sol-Aer), is the main air defense unit of the Romanian Air Force. Its headquarters are located in Bucharest. The brigade was created on August 1 1973, by...

In this article: Surface to Air Missiles, Bucharest, Romanian Air Force, Mim-23 Hawk, Giurgiu, Calarasi, and Romania

...operation because spacecraft on lower orbits typically travel at higher speeds, Lewis said. The upcoming shot - using a sea-based Standard Missile 3 developed for regional and tactical missile defense - could thus prove to be a useful...

In this article: Hydrazine, US, George BUSH, China, Space Shuttle Columbia, James Cartwright, and NASA

W hen was the Nike missile base in Fairfax County on Popes Head Road demolished? Does anything from the Nike site remain there today? Oh, for the days of the Cold War. Things were so much simpler then. We knew exactly who our enemies were:...

In this article: Nike, Pope, Nike missile, Nike, Great Falls, Fairfax, and The Pentagon