There are subtleties and nuances to each military application that would elude companies new to the business.

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The military application though is beyond question: Twice as fast, three times the payload, five times the range of any comparable helicopter.

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Frank Barnaby, a respected nuclear physicist and weapons expert, says that a version of the compound with some military application may have been developed in the Soviet Union.

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In partnership with a local technical college, Stark State in Canton, and Lockheed Martin, TMI is developing a military application that promises to greatly reduce the need for a front-line unit to transport and secure large quantities of gasoline or diesel fuel.

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Indeed US strategic analyst Prof Tony Cordesman, of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, thinks that we are far too cavalier in talking about the application of military force.

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As well as to the U.S. military officers who back his application.

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Broadly speaking, these machines have three sorts of application: scientific, military and commercial.

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The hearing in Rawalpindi on Friday was over a bail application for the former military leader, Mr. Musharraf's lawyer Salman Safdar said.

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But they warn that its application is being hampered by the military requirement to maintain the secrecy of raw, precise, positional information.

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This mobile application provides a location-enabled, social network exclusively for the military veteran community.

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