Word: assaultive
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...vertical lift - aircraft that could take off and land from small decks and fly far inland to drop off combat-ready troops. As the Marines' Vietnam-era CH-46 choppers became obsolete, commanders started to dream of an aircraft that would give them more options when considering an amphibious assault. The dreams intensified following the failed Desert One mission in 1980 to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran. In the course of the operation, three helicopters broke down, leading to an order to abort the entire endeavor, and a fourth chopper collided with a C-130 aircraft at a desert base...
...Marines contend that the V-22 is an assault aircraft and that no pilot who finds himself dodging bullets is going to fly it gently. "The airplane is incredibly maneuverable," says Lieut. Colonel Anthony (Buddy) Bianca, a veteran V-22 pilot. But the dirty little secret about an aircraft that combines the best features of an airplane and a helicopter is that it combines their worst features too. The V-22 can't glide as well as an airplane, and it can't hover as well as a helicopter. If a V-22 loses power while flying like an airplane...
...with an eye to bolstering Moscow's claims that Artur Chilingarov, a member of Russia's parliament, enlisted fellow parliamentarian Vladimir Gruzdev and the commander of the Mir 1 submersible, Anatoli Sagalevich, for last month's aquatic assault on the North Pole. With the funding (and presence aboard) of a Swedish millionaire and an Australian adventure-tour operator, the expedition trailed an icebreaker to the pole, where Sagalevich piloted one of two submersibles to a depth of 13,100 ft. (4,301 m), planted the Russian flag and then skillfully resurfaced through the shifting holes in the ice. Chilingarov said...
...move reflects the dilemma confronting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: Some of his generals have been clamoring for a large-scale offensive against Gaza in retaliation for a rocket strike earlier this month by Palestinian militants that landed in a military base, wounding 60 Israeli soldiers. But a big assault on Gaza, said the plan's critics, could have cost Israeli lives and got troops mired there for a long time. Instead, Olmert and his defense minister settled for tougher sanctions on the coastal strip - even at the cost of raising an international outcry...
...improvement,” he said. “Hopefully what will happen is that college officials will look at this data and evaluate it and see how they could serve their student body better.” Sarah Rankin, director of Harvard’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, said she was pleased by the results of the survey—but that she did not put much stock in the rankings. “I think we do good work, but I didn’t need that survey to validate...