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  2. Entebbe raid - Wikipedia

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    The Entebbe raid or Operation Entebbe, officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (retroactively codenamed Operation Yonatan ), was a 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. It was launched in response to the hijacking of an international civilian passenger flight (an Airbus A300) operated by Air France between the cities of Tel Aviv ...

  3. Ground based operational surveillance system - Wikipedia

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    The Ground-Based Operational Surveillance System, (G-BOSS) created by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, is a trailer-mounted tower with mounted surveillance systems. It was integrated with the command operations center (COC) used primarily by the United States Marine Corps during the War in Afghanistan (2001-2021) and the War in Iraq.

  4. Civil defense siren - Wikipedia

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    Civil defence sirens are mounted on fire stations, town halls, or other structures. Three siren tones are used in the country: [54] Warning ( Opozorilo na nevarnost ): 2-minute long steady tone. Serves as a warning of the impending danger of a fire, natural or other type of disaster, or high water level.

  5. Waco siege - Wikipedia

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    The number of ATF wounded increased, and an agent was killed by gunfire from the compound as agents were firing at a Branch Davidian perched on top of the water tower. The exchange of fire continued, but 45 minutes into the raid the gunfire began to slow down as agents began to run low on ammunition. The shooting continued for a total of two hours.

  6. NATO Joint Military Symbology - Wikipedia

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    Example Symbols. NATO Joint Military Symbology is the NATO standard for military map symbols. Originally published in 1986 as Allied Procedural Publication 6 ( APP-6 ), NATO Military Symbols for Land Based Systems, the standard has evolved over the years and is currently in its fifth version (APP-6D). The symbols are designed to enhance NATO 's ...

  7. List of iOS games - Wikipedia

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    Ant Raid: Prank Prank Real-time strategy: July 6, 2011 ... First Star Software: Puzzle: November 20, 2012 ... Tower defense: August 15, 2013: Pocket Devil: Eyedip

  8. Delta Force - Wikipedia

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    Delta Force bodyguards in civilian clothing providing close protection to General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Gulf War, 1991. Delta Force was created in 1977 after numerous well-publicized terrorist incidents led the U.S. government to develop a full-time counter-terrorism unit. Key military and government figures had already been briefed on ...

  9. Standard RAID levels - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of a RAID 1 setup. RAID 1 consists of an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data on two or more disks; a classic RAID 1 mirrored pair contains two disks.This configuration offers no parity, striping, or spanning of disk space across multiple disks, since the data is mirrored on all disks belonging to the array, and the array can only be as big as the smallest member disk.