Word: gunships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sources close to the Spetsnaz, the best-trained and most combat-experienced soldiers, say they lost officers to misdirected Russian "precision bombings" in Dagestan. They also speak of corrupt commanders who allowed Chechen leader Basayev to buy his way out of Dagestan after a failed offensive, and of helicopter-gunship crews who were bribed by the Chechens to hit empty slices of mountainside instead of guerrilla positions...
Like a motorist picking up his car from the repair shop, the two Marine pilots expected their Bell AH-1 Cobra to be running smoothly when they went to retrieve it. After all, the two-man gunship had been in the Fort Worth, Texas, factory nearly a year for a $1.8 million overhaul. But Major Michael Browne and 1st Lieut. Robert Straw found enough problems with the chopper to delay their departure a day. Then, 20 minutes after they took off in the late afternoon of May 23, 1997, they were killed when their aircraft plunged into a field...
...that is, until last week. At 9:41 on Tuesday morning, a Belarussian helicopter gunship opened fire on a balloon captained by Alan Fraenckel, 55, an airline pilot with TWA, and his partner, John Stuart-Jervis, 68, a retired British pilot who made his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Within seconds they were dead--shot out of the sky over a remote Belarussian forest...
...once discouraged such sales. In April the Administration, reversing U.S. policy, permitted Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding to begin talks on constructing diesel submarines -- worth $350 million each -- for Egypt and other countries. And Rockwell International Corp. has begun seeking foreign buyers for its $80 million-a-copy AC-130 gunship, a specially modified cargo plane that puts a 105-mm howitzer into the sky, where it can destroy distant targets with devastating precision...
...angry and frustrated at a costly mission gone wrong, even a dignified retreat is proving difficult to secure. Last week seven more service members died when their AC-130 gunship crashed off the Kenyan coast en route to Mogadishu. As the last American ground troops packed up for their departure this week, free-lance gunmen continued to take potshots at guard posts and passing convoys. Eight warships are deployed offshore should trouble erupt...