For example, Britain's defence secretary during the Falklands war, John Nott, revealed in his memoirs that France had been Britain's staunchest ally, providing information that helped to render the Exocet anti-ship missiles used by Argentina ineffective, and supplying Mirage and Super-Etendard fighters for British Harrier pilots to pit themselves against in training.
From that third country, Whitman said, the containers were loaded onto the SS Gopher State, a U.S.-owned crane ship normally used to haul equipment in and out of war zones.
For nine months the ship Transocean Discoverer Spirit used 360-degree rotating propellers to hold itself steady in the 3, 500-foot-deep water as diamond-tipped bits cut the deepest oil well ever--6.5 miles down.
The Qingdao review did include an interesting addition to China's fleet, a Yuzhao-class amphibious-assault ship, which could be used to dispatch troops and helicopters over long distances.
Two tugboats and a pilot were used to pull the 450-foot ship off the rocks.
Only last week, Ukrainian customs officials seized a Russian cargo ship bound for Libya and carrying a multilaterally-controlled chemical used in the production of rocket fuel.
Liquified natural gas will increasingly be used for long-haul truck, train and ship propulsion.
The 45-year-old artist used specialist underwater cameras to capture the ship, before heading back to the studio to photograph models in 1940s and 1950s costumes.
The answer that B9 is proposing is a coastal cargo ship that combines massive carbon-fibre DynaRig sails - such as those used on the superyacht, the Maltese Falcon - with an engine that runs on bio-gas made from food waste using a process called anaerobic digestion.
One recent weapon is what frog-busters are calling a "hot shower chamber, " a modified freight container used by nurseries to ship plants, with multiple heads that spray heated water onto the plants and kill any coquis that might be lurking there.
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