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18 hours ago · The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner; it is easily distinguished from the Electra by its distinctive tail stinger or "MAD" boom, used for the magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) of submarines.
- November 1959
- Lockheed – 650, Kawasaki – 107, Total – 757
18 hours ago · During the deployment, 55 night missions were flown against targets in North Vietnam, but two aircraft had been lost. 66–0022 was lost on 28 March, and 66-0017 on 30 March. Replacement aircraft left Nellis, but the loss of a third F-111A (66-0024) on 22 April halted F-111A combat operations.
- 21 December 1964; 58 years ago
- USAF: F-111F, 1996; EF-111A, 1998, RAAF: F-111C, 2010
- 563 (total); 76 (FB-111)
- General Dynamics
18 hours ago · Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1935 to 1945 and briefly as the 34th vice president in 1945 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- May 8, 1884, Lamar, Missouri, U.S.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
18 hours ago · So far, Berlin has earmarked €7.1bn (£5.98bn) for Kyiv with weapons and ammunition this year, but the money has already been almost completely allocated to projects, Bild newspaper reported
