Word: bombproofing
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Defending troops against the new threat of suicide fighters is a major challenge to vendors. "Playing offense--killing the enemy--is pretty simple," said Karl Alizade, a Navy veteran and president of City-Safe, which makes bombproof containers and rooms. "But playing effective defense is much tougher." Dozens of Defense Department officials stopped at Med-Eng's booth to look at an armored suit designed to protect the soldiers who man the machine guns on top of vehicles and are especially vulnerable to shrapnel from roadside bombs. The Army has ordered more than 2,000 of the suits for Iraq...
...embassy. The next, the earth trembles as a thunderclap unleashes a mighty shock wave. Seconds later, black smoke plumes into the sky as the tarmac ignites, flashing fire to parked cars and passing buses. The blast shatters every window within a quarter-mile radius into lethal slivers, blows the bombproof doors off the embassy, sucks out ceilings and furniture and people, pancakes a seven-story building next door into a mountain of rubble. Thousands of innocent people are injured, and more than a hundred die, including 11 Americans...
...last week, Mike Gilmore has proven that Lavietes Pavilion is not bombproof...
...send six Army divisions and 1,100 tactical fighter aircraft to their aid; the question has been whether such action would do any good. U.S. military analysts fear that planes ferried to airbases in West Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands would be easily destroyed because of the lack of bombproof aircraft shelters. Western Europe's munition dumps have been inadequately stocked, and, say the analysts, the NATO forces would quickly run out of ammunition...
...produced. After months of rising terrorism by both the extreme left and extreme right, the country allowed itself to settle into a state of unaccustomed relaxation. Civilians waved at tanks rumbling through the streets of Istanbul. Automobile drivers shook hands with soldiers who manned the roadblocks. Storekeepers raised their bombproof shutters for the first time in months, and restaurants began to fill up again in the evenings. Some city dwellers looked far trimmer than usual, simply because they no longer packed pistols inside their coats or waistbands. Ankara's English-language Turkish Daily News, reflecting the prevailing mood, announced...