Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...salutations, a series of stretches or postures--including the 'downward facing dog' and the 'cobra'--also constitute the various aspects of the lessons...
...battlefield, the airborne troops could be dropped behind enemy lines from Black Hawk helicopters to lure the Republican Guards out of their tank bunkers. Once in the open, the Guards would be easy pickings for allied tank killers like the Thunderbolt and Harrier jets and the Apache and Cobra helicopters...
...Saddam has escalated along with the war and seems omnipresent in the West. Last week the op-ed page of the New York Times ran a David Levine drawing titled The Descent of Man. Running from left to right were representations of Clark Gable, a gorilla, a chimpanzee, a cobra and, finally, a diminutive, flyspeck Saddam standing waist-deep in an oil slick...
American A-10 attack planes and Cobra and Apache helicopters and infantry weapons appeared to be quite as deadly as advertised against Iraqi armor. General Schwarzkopf would confirm only 24 Iraqi tanks definitely destroyed, but other counts for the border battles as a whole ran as high as 80 vehicles. Correspondents who were allowed into Khafji Thursday afternoon reported that the streets were littered with the burning hulks of Soviet-made armored personnel carriers, knocked out by American TOW missiles fired by Saudi and Qatari infantrymen. U.S. Marines lost three light armored vehicles (LAVs) in the fighting around Umm Hujul...
...outrun and outgun the best Iraqi tanks, Soviet-made T- 72s. Infantry will navigate with the Global Positioning Satellite system, a book-size receiver that allows them to determine their location within a couple of yards. The big surprise if war broke out could be American Apache and Cobra helicopters. Despite a reputation for maintenance problems, the Apaches in Saudi Arabia have been ready for duty more than 80% of the time. Each Apache is equipped with eight laser-guided Hellfire antitank missiles, and, says a maintenance officer, "each Hellfire's a dead tank...