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  2. Naval co-operation and guidance for shipping - Wikipedia

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    Naval co-operation and guidance for shipping. Naval co-operation and guidance for shipping ( NCAGS) is a naval doctrinal term. Naval personnel are trained to carry out NCAGS establish and provide advice for safe passage of merchant ships worldwide, during times of peace, tension, crisis and war. NCAGS personnel act as a liaison between military ...

  3. Operation Nimble Archer - Wikipedia

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    Operation Nimble Archer was the 19 October 1987 attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf by United States Navy forces. The attack was a response to Iran's missile attack on MV Sea Isle City , a reflagged Kuwaiti oil tanker at anchor off Kuwait, which had occurred three days earlier.

  4. Nimble Storage - Wikipedia

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    Nimble Storage was established in January 2008 by Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari. In July 2010, the company announced its first product, the CS200 series hybrid arrays, at Tech Field Day. In September 2012, Nimble Storage secured $40.7 million in funding from both original and new investors, including Artis Capital Management and GGV Capital.

  5. USS Nimble (AM-459) - Wikipedia

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    USS Nimble (AM-459) USS. Nimble. (AM-459) Nimble (second closest) executing coordinated movements in training. USS Nimble (AM-459/MSO-459) was an Agile -class minesweeper in service with the United States Navy from 1955 to 1970. She was sold for scrap in 1981.

  6. Advanced Vector Extensions - Wikipedia

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    The GNU Assembler (GAS) inline assembly functions support these instructions (accessible via GCC), as do Intel primitives and the Intel inline assembler (closely compatible to GAS, although more general in its handling of local references within inline code). GAS supports AVX starting with binutils version 2.19.

  7. Operation Praying Mantis - Wikipedia

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    56 killed. 5 ships sunk. Operation Praying Mantis was the 18 April 1988 attack by the United States on Iranian naval targets in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for the mining of a U.S. warship four days earlier. On 14 April, the American guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine while transiting international waters as part of ...

  8. ZIM (shipping company) - Wikipedia

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    Zim Integrated Shipping Services Ltd., commonly known as ZIM ( Hebrew: צים, tsim; a biblical word meaning "a fleet of ships", Numbers 24:24), is a publicly held Israeli international cargo shipping company, and one of the top 20 global carriers. [1] The company's headquarters are in Haifa, Israel; Founded in 1945, ZIM has traded on the New ...

  9. USS Alliance (1778) - Wikipedia

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    The first Alliance of the United States Navy (which served as part of the Continental Navy) was a 36-gun sailing frigate of the American Revolutionary War.. Originally named Hancock, she was laid down in 1777 on the Merrimack River at Amesbury, Massachusetts, by the partners and cousins, William and James K. Hackett, launched on 28 April 1778, and renamed Alliance on 29 May 1778 by resolution ...