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1 day ago · 2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
2 hours ago · Brand new to the Archive Series, the MIL-SHIPS-W-2181 is based on a prototype that was never commercially launched, making 2021 the first time watch enthusiasts will have the opportunity to own this luxury timepiece. The sport watch was inspired by a timepiece developed for the U.S. Navy, and it has a unique paper strip on the dial that indicates if moisture has entered the watch, and will ...
2 hours ago · With temperatures hovering around 48 degrees Celsius in Delhi in the past two weeks, the Delhi Fire Services has been receiving an average of 200 calls daily. Last year, the fire department received about 160 calls daily during this period.Till May 26 this year, the fire department has received 2,991 fire-related calls. In winters, only 70 to 80 calls are received on average. With Delhi ...
2 hours ago · The ninth ship of the series was launched earlier, at the end of 2023. The first batch of Type-055 destroyers has eight ships, the shipyards in Jiangnan and Dalian have built four units each. The lead destroyer Nanchang (tail number 101) joined the fleet of the People's Republic of China in January 2020.
1 day ago · As of 2023 the Navy also had 40,000 personnel. In 2015 the Navy had 4 destroyers, 22 frigates, 1 corvette, 14 landing ships, and 4 diesel attack submarines. The majority of these ships are former U.S. Navy vessels. Marine Corps Marine Corps AAV-7 vehicles during an amphibious exercise.
1 day ago · The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I's attempts to subjugate Greece.
1 day ago · Peninsular War. The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence.
