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torpedoes

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Plural of torpedo

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Sinn Féin, the SDLP and the Green party's sole assembly member vetoed the bill by triggering a "petition of concert", which torpedoes any legislation that does not have sufficient cross-community/unionist-nationalist approval.

Dazzle Ships will recreate the war contribution by the artists of a century ago: the creation of jagged patterns – related to contemporary vorticist and cubist styles – which distorted the outline of ships at sea, helping to hide them from enemy submarines and torpedoes.

In any case, modern torpedoes and missiles are guided to their target electronically.

The idea was to distort an enemy submarine commander's perception of the ship's size, shape, range, heading and speed, so as to make it harder to hit with the non-homing torpedoes of the period.

That triggered a series of explosions that resulted in the submarine sinking and, according to some reports, the launch of two torpedoes that struck other vessels (including another submarine) in the dockyard.

It is participating in the construction of 12 new stadiums.In this section Breaking up Striking out Damn the torpedoes Generating Buzz Give and take Three's a crowd Getting the cow out of the ditch ReprintsMajor League Baseball's (MLB) plan to replicate this through the discovery of a hidden talent is not entirely implausible.

Many recalled earlier Swedish submarine incidents, including one 33 years ago this month, when a fisherman out early one morning discovered a Soviet submarine (armed with nuclear torpedoes) that had run aground.

Second, when sitting on the bottom of the ocean it would be difficult to distinguish from the sea floor by using sonar concrete is much more like the stuff of ocean bottoms than steel is.The Russian navy is, as a result, thought to be considering the construction of small, six-man concrete submarines called C-subs that would be equipped with vertically launched rocket-powered torpedoes.

From fighters to torpedoes, from submarines to reconnaissance planes, they are invariably tardy and over budget.BAE's latest set of accounts was the first for many years not to be sullied with hundreds of millions of pounds in write-offs to cover the over-run disasters.

Damn the torpedoes and never mind the naysayers acolytes in the comments section will sort them out.What's more, put into the context of a pathetic response to the current crisis, the ideas offered by these very different schools all take on a similar form: that policymakers are overly worried about something that should concern them less.

And some torpedoes will now circle back if they miss a target on the first pass.

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