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Rose left last week’s contest against Columbia early with a stinger, but Murphy said he will be fine for tomorrow’s game...
...Microsoft is already running trials of its enhanced data services in Europe with Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefonica and Orange. On the hardware front it has announced agreements with "white-label" manufacturers - those that turn out products for branding by other companies - to use Stinger, its smart phone platform. Analysts see this as Microsoft's attempt to offset Nokia's powerful name recognition by allowing telecom operators to place their own brands on phones running Microsoft software...
Will it all work? The helicopters will be vulnerable to the 100 or so shoulder-launched, CIA-purchased, Soviet-war-era Stinger missiles still in the hands of the Taliban. The Stingers have one of the greatest records of any killing machine ever invented; a 1989 U.S. Army study found that the Afghans took down 269 Soviet aircraft with them in 340 attempts. But less high-tech weaponry will serve just as well; in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 U.S. soldiers were killed, including six Delta Force commandos who tried to rescue airmen from two Black Hawk helicopters downed...
APACHE Armed to the teeth with Hellfire rockets, Stinger missiles and 1,200 rounds of 30-mm ammo...
...Will it all work? The helicopters will be vulnerable to the 100 or so shoulder-launched, CIA-purchased, Soviet-war-era Stinger missiles still in the hands of the Taliban. The Stingers have one of the greatest records of any killing machine ever invented; a 1989 U.S. Army study found that the Afghans took down 269 Soviet aircraft with them in 340 attempts. But less high-tech weaponry will serve just as well; in 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 U.S. soldiers were killed, including six Delta Force commandos who tried to rescue airmen from two Black Hawk helicopters downed...