June 13, 1944: V-1 Rocket Ushers in a New Kind of Warfare
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Slow and cheap ... but deadly. Germany's V-1 kills over 6,000 Londoners during World War II.
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Should war move into space, the U.S. military has a plan. And not being an enemy doesn't necessarily mean your satellites and ground-control mechanisms aren't targets. By Noah Shachtman.
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The Corps orders up a passle of new South African-designed and Israeli-made bomb-deflecting vehicles. Plus: Walter Reed is not the only problem -- so many docs deployed to Iraq means a military MD shortage at home. In Danger Room.
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The US military unveils a "revolutionary" heat-ray gun to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds.
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By Katarina Kratovac, Associated Press  CAIRO, Egypt -- When Iraqi insurgents this week blew up trucks carrying chlorine, the attacks conjured up frightening images of chemical warfare and soldiers choking to death on the battlefields of Belgium in World War I.
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John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. The space program really takes off after this. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Air Force One roared into the air at noon on Dec. 19, 1967, carrying Lyndon Baines Johnson on a secret mission. The Vietnam War raged. Johnson was desperate for peace. He would risk a 4 1/2 -day, 27,000-mile globe-circling journey to find it, plowing the skies while awaiting word on his long-shot...
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By SONJA BARISIC ATLANTIC, Va. - A rocket carrying two experimental satellites into orbit blasted off Saturday in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region's commercial spaceport, blazing a streak across the sky just before sunrise.
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In the hours just before dawn on Dec. 16, 1944 -- 60 years ago today -- Art Schreckengost was trying to get some sleep. It was difficult in combat fatigues and the cold.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 8  /PRNewswire/ -- A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched six satellites at 10:10 p.m., EST, for the U.S. Air Force, marking the first use of the Atlas for an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program mission.
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The long-awaited assault on Fallujah was officially dubbed Operation Dawn, to signify the promise of a new beginning. But the name the US military had originally given the operationâPhantom Furyâseems
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One of the latest tools being deployed in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan seems to be old-fashioned. Think weather balloons or blimps.
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Instead of using a chemical rocket, SMART-1 fires a stream of electrically charged atoms of Xenon gas. A similar idea was used by the makers of Star Trek as part of the Starship Enterprise&#39;s propulsion system.
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10/03/04. During a week dominated by the first presidential debate and continued atrocities in Iraq, some cool news pretty much got lost in the shuffle: the first of two flights into space
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Strikes against rocket launch sites are first since Hamas took control last week.
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Franceâs newest wonder, a British designed bridge that pierces the sky above the verdant hills of southern France, was officially inaugurated today as jet fighters roared overhead leaving a trail of red, white and blue smoke.
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By Laurent Marot KOUROU, French Guiana  - A European Ariane rocketlaunched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, thethird in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky"independent of the United States.