1. The purpose of this background paper on the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (E-8C Joint STARS) is to describe the system’s mission and capabilities‚ the different contributions it has provided in past conflicts and operations‚ and the role the weapon system will play in future scenarios even outside of the conventional military operations. 2. The main mission of the E-8C Joint STARS is intelligence‚ surveillance‚ and reconnaissance (ISR). Gathering information from the battlefield
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describes how Kip finds Hana’s villa‚ Kip appears to be dehumanized: “His eyes took in the room before they took her in‚ swept across it like a spray of radar” (76). Working as a sapper has become second-nature to Kip‚ and he approaches all situations by first looking for danger. Kip has taken all human emotion out of his actions‚ and his eyes like “radar” only contribute to his machine-like actions. Because Kip had to constantly search for mines during the war‚ he is unable to break this habit since
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Many of the military technological advancements that have been made in the last 60 years can be attributed to the Cold War. Much of the technology developed during the period of the Cold War is still in use today by the military and government. Advancements in offensive technology are well known to just about everyone in the way of nuclear energy harnessed in the form of the nuclear bomb‚ but little is known about the battle for information during the Cold War. The Cold War produced some of the
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John and Carrie. I’m about to share with you one of the best‚ worst‚ and wildest experiences I have ever faced. It all started on a cold‚ September day‚ with it storming cats and dogs. I was in my bookshop‚ right next to the Blackleaf Lake‚ when he walked in. John was soaked from head to toe‚ and I just assumed it was from the storm. I got up off of the reading couch‚ and asked if he would like a towel and something dry to wear‚ and as I approached him I noticed what he was wearing. He looked
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the declaration of war‚ he did not feel as though war with the United States would be a good idea for the Japanese. After the declaration‚ he believed that if the United States lasted longer than a year‚ the Japanese would lose. In the movie‚ a radar was going to be placed on a mountain top where
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A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be more than one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year‚ eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide‚ resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. In the body of my essay‚ I will tell you about types of tornadoes
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Southern Indiana tornado history Three days ago‚ on March 2nd‚ several tornadoes struck southern Indiana. Washington‚ Jefferson‚ Ripley‚ Clark and Scott counties were affected‚ and more than 14 people were killed. These were certainly not the first twisters to hit the region‚ nor were they the worst. Here is a list of some of the deadliest tornadoes in Indiana history: The ‘Tri-State Tornado’ struck in March‚ 1925‚ sweeping from southern Missouri to southwestern Indiana at more than 200 miles per
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hand picked men as well as the warship U.S.S. Eldridge disappeared during Project Rainbow a secret experiment that included Albert Einstein on the Philadelphia Naval Yard in 1943‚ while trying to make the ship invisible to the naked eye and to all radars. A man named Carlos Miguel Allende witnessed the act while serving on a nearby merchant ship‚ SS Andrew Furuseth. In 1956 M.K. Jessup‚ the author of The Case for UFOs‚ received a handwritten letter by Allende telling him about the experiment. Allende
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technique of using hydrogen bubble chamber and data analysis". Alvarez’s colleagues sometimes called him the "prize wild idea man" because of the huge range of his activities. He did all kinds of research into the atomic nucleus‚ light‚ electrons‚ radar‚ and so forth. In 1943 he was part of the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos and developed a detonating device for the atomic bomb. He was on board the bomber Enola Gay when it dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Alvarez was shocked and sickened by what he
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attack because of the obstruction of defense and warning. I. Signs of Japan’s intent to attack II. Politics involvement A. War support B. Eight-step plan III. Neglected warning signs near Pearl Harbor soon before the attack A. Midget subs B. Radar detecting The attack on Pearl Harbor has been known to be a complete surprise. Whenever one thinks about it‚ they consider that it was. They may think that it was a total surprise except for a few small warning signs that our government seems to
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