The same proliferation will likely occur in man-portable anti-aircraft weapons, thereby challenging U.S. dominance in close air support.
The target was a convoy believed to be carrying anti-aircraft weapons bound for Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militant group allied with Syria and Iran.
Originally designed as a specialist anti-submarine ship, the Type 22 frigate evolved into a powerful surface combatant with substantial anti-surface, anti-submarine and anti-aircraft weapons systems.
Originally designed as a specialist anti-submarine ship, the Type 22 frigates evolved into a powerful surface combatant with substantial anti-surface, anti-submarine and anti-aircraft weapons systems.
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In February, Israel attacked a convoy of anti-aircraft weapons in Syria.
U.S. officials say the strike hit a convoy of anti-aircraft weapons bound for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah while the vehicles were still on Syrian territory.
"The main arms of concern to us are the arms that are already in Syria - these are anti-aircraft weapons, these are chemical weapons and other very, very dangerous weapons that could be game changers, " he said.
Those workers perform support tasks across the department, from maintaining aircraft and weapons systems to processing military payrolls and counseling families.
He said that if terrorists seized anti-aircraft and chemical weapons they could be "game changers" in the region.
Notice should also be served that further North Korean defiance will result in the basing of nuclear-capable aircraft and their weapons in South Korea.
First of all, unmanned aircraft typically lack defensive weapons with which to protect themselves.
During the Cuban missile crisis, a bear snuffling around the perimeter fence of a Minnesota airbase led to aircraft carrying primed nuclear weapons rolling down the runways ready for take off in neighbouring Wisconsin.
Moussaoui has been indicted in federal court on six conspiracy charges -- to commit an act of terrorism, to pirate and destroy aircraft, to use weapons of mass destruction, to destroy property and to murder Americans.
New generations of Soviet tactical and strategic weapons, aircraft, missiles, ships, radars and command, control and communication systems to name but a few will rely heavily upon computer chips, microprocessors and semiconductors fabricated with heretofore controlled Western technology.
New generations of Soviet tactical and strategic weapons, aircraft, missiles, ships, radars and command, control and communication systems -- to name but a few -- will rely heavily upon computer chips, microprocessors and semiconductors fabricated with heretofore controlled Western technology.
His trial is scheduled to begin with jury selection September 30 on six conspiracy counts -- to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, to commit aircraft piracy, to destroy aircraft, to use weapons of mass destruction, to murder U.S. employees, and to destroy property.
The other counts were conspiracy to destroy aircraft and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
For instance, we have very old and, in some cases, actually obsolescent weapon systems - armored vehicles, ships, aircraft, missiles and nuclear weapons.
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Castro has the ability to deliver biological and chemical weapons with military aircraft, various unconventional techniques, and perhaps, missile systems increasingly available in the international black market.
Experts on China's military also say that generals have been lobbying for larger increases in real military spending to help fund the development of costly weapons systems including aircraft carriers, the first of which was launched last year, and stealth fighters, a prototype of which made its first test flight in 2011.
Israel is also concerned that Assad's arsenal of advanced arms, including chemical weapons, anti-aircraft systems and sophisticated missiles, could be transferred to Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon or fall into the hands of radical rebel groups.
For PLA commanders, according to many analysts, the dream of a strong military means securing the defense-spending increases needed to fund costly weapons programs such as aircraft carriers and stealth fighter jets, even as economic growth slows over the next decade.
In Bosnia the UK declined to create what the foreign secretary at the time called a, "level killing field", and in Libya it also decided not to send weapons even though RAF aircraft were bombing government forces and British Special Forces were (eventually) put on the ground.
But the fall of Gadhafi opened up a black market arms bazaar across North Africa, and western intelligence agencies believe AQIM may have acquired anti-aircraft missiles along with other heavy weapons, as well as plenty of vehicles, essential in a region of few (and dilapidated) roads.
In his speech, DeLay ran through a litany of what he described as atrocities by the Iraqi leader, including the use of chemical weapons against Iraqi Kurds, firing at U.S. aircraft in the no-fly zones, its refusal to allow weapons inspections by U.N. teams, and the persecution of religious leaders in southern Iraq.
Heavy weapons, including anti-aircraft guns, were used during Monday's clashes which lasted about one hour, sources told CNN.
The U.S. military is increasingly relying on drone strikes inside Afghanistan, where the number of weapons fired from unmanned aerial aircraft soared from 294 in 2011 to 506 last year.
It has agreed to sell Tehran's radical fundamentalists a muscular array of advanced conventional weapons, including submarines, fighter aircraft, antiship missiles and air defense systems.
Provided Iraq does not provoke America further, either by continuing to fire on aircraft or presenting an implausibly short list of weapons, then the next trial will come on January 27th.
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