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Release. February 28, 1998. (1998-02-28) The Pentagon Wars is a 1998 HBO comedy film directed by Richard Benjamin based on The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard, a book written by retired United States Air Force Colonel James G. Burton about the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
The Pennamite–Yankee Wars or Yankee–Pennamite Wars were a series of conflicts consisting of the First Pennamite War (1769–1770), the Second Pennamite War (1774), and the Third Pennamite War (1784), in which settlers from Connecticut and Pennsylvania (Pennamites) disputed for control of the Wyoming Valley along the North Branch of the Susquehanna River.
In the Hellenic Navy, the commissioning pennant (Greek: Επισείων Πολεμικού Πλοίου, lit. 'Warship Pennant') is blue coloured, has shape of isosceles triangle elongated, bearing a white cross near the base of the triangle. The flag has typically base to length (height of triangle) 1 to 20. The cross has arms width 1/5 base ...
The pennant, which was really the old "pennoncell", was of three colours for the whole of its length, and towards the end left separate in two or three tails, and so continued until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Now, however the pennant is a long white streamer with the St George's cross in the inner portion close to the mast.
The Battle of Trafalgar was fought between British and Franco-Spanish fleets on 21 October 1805. A force of 27 British ships of the line faced 33 allied ships. Both forces were formed in two columns; the British sailed parallel, the allied one following the other.
The Allen M. Sumner class was a group of 58 destroyers built by the United States during World War II.Another twelve ships were completed as destroyer minelayers.The class was named for Allen Melancthon Sumner, an officer in the United States Marine Corps.
Uhlan (/ ˈuːlɑːn, ˈjuːlən /; French: uhlan; German: Ulan; [1] Lithuanian: ulonas; Polish: ułan) is a type of light cavalry, primarily armed with a lance. [2] The uhlans started as Lithuanian irregular cavalry, [3] that were later also adopted by other countries during the 18th century, including Poland, France, Russia, Prussia, Saxony ...
ESM system with UAA-8/9 warning and Type 668/669 jamming elements. The Leander-class, or Type 12I (Improved) frigates, [1][2][3] comprising twenty-six vessels, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy 's modern history. The class was built in three batches between 1959 and 1973.