• And the Sea Harrier's range is limited to a few hours of flight.

    ECONOMIST: The future of the Royal Navy

  • While you can always insert a local SIM card into your phone for use when you are in port, this will not help you if you are on a cruise ship at sea and out of range of a local carrier.

    FORBES: Verizon Smartphones And Cruise Ships Don't Mix

  • Article V barred the development of the most efficient approaches to defending against long-range missiles (sea-, air- and space-based systems).

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • "Some countries on mainland Europe have more gas storage capacity than the UK but they don't have the benefit of North Sea supply and our extensive range of import infrastructure, " the spokeswoman said.

    BBC: UK gas prices surge on supply fears

  • Sea creatures suffered from a range of maladies.

    WSJ: The Whale Doc Who Kept Sea World Healthy

  • On Tuesday, Yediot Aharonot reported that Israeli analysts who reviewed videotapes of North Korea's missile tests concluded that alongside the various short range Scuds it sent over the Sea of Japan, Pyongyang also launched a Taeopodong-2 multi-stage long range missile capable of reaching Alaska.

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  • Nicotinic receptors exist in a wide range of organisms, from sea slugs to mammals.

    FORBES: The Nicotine Cure

  • The Wee Bankie is a rich sandeel ground some 40 kilometres (25 miles) out to sea but still well within the feeding range of local seabird breeding colonies.

    BBC: Ministers consider sandeel fishing ban

  • Such reductions would likely preclude the maintenance of the sort of balanced deterrent posture based on a "Triad" of land- and sea-based missiles and long-range bombers that the United States has correctly deemed necessary for decades - and that may be needed more than ever in the future.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The denuclearizers�� dangerous ambitions

  • Gone will be the time-tested strategic Triad of intercontinental-range bombers and land- and sea-based missiles.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Putin's reset

  • Even with the deep cuts the START follow-on treaty requires in U.S. strategic nuclear delivery vehicles, it may still be possible to retain a nuclear "Triad" of long-range bombers and land- and sea-launched ballistic missiles.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama, unilateral Denuclearizer-in-Chief

  • In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions from peers range across the record-low sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean during the past year and the likely future of oil prices , before peers continue the marathon committee stage consideration of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • The Ventura County blaze, which was expected to reach the Pacific Ocean, crossed the scenic Pacific Coast Highway that separates the Santa Monica Mountains from the sea, and small fires damaged a military firing range, a Navy spokeswoman said.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The zones range from tiny stretches of coastline to large tracts of sea floor.

    BBC: Marine protection bids unveiled

  • The new warning says recent attacks have occurred hundreds of miles off the coast, suggesting that pirates are using more "mother ships" -- a practice of using bigger boats with longer range to launch smaller pirate ships from farther out to sea, according to Pentagon officials.

    CNN: As piracy surges, U.S. warns of dangers off Somali coast

  • The islands are in fact the peaks of a sub-Atlantic mountain range that rises more than 4, 000 feet from the sea bed, forming sheer cliffs and often impassable terrain.

    WSJ: Brazil Three Ways: Art, Eco-Escape, Surf City

  • Kadish declared that such a layered system, comprised over time of a range of systems to address an evolving threat, would likely utilize sea- and space-based missile defense "layers" to complement and add robustness to the ground-based capability he is preparing for deployment in Alaska.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Critics' Study Makes Case for 'Layered' Missile Defense

  • The Cornwall carries a 4.5 inch MK8 gun, Goal Keeper CIWS close in weapon systems, Sea Wolf anti-missile system, Harpoon missile launchers, two 20mm close range guns, Lynx MK8 helicopter armament, anti-ship missiles, and one of the most sophisticated command and control communications systems on water.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Iran needs a reason to fear

  • By feeding into his model both some recent science on the increased risks of dramatic climate change, and the possibility of such catastrophes as a rise in sea level big enough to flood London and New York, he calculates that the range of possible outcomes lies somewhere between 5% and 20% of global output over the next century or two.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change

  • Evolutionary sea-based defenses, an early version of which conducted a successful intercept of a short-range ballistic missile two months ago, meet both of these tests.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: An Effective Antimissile Strategy

  • This range is the size of the European Alps with the tallest peaks reaching 3, 000m above sea-level - and yet they are still hidden below more than a 1, 000m of ice.

    BBC: Antarctic ice volume measured

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