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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Black Hawk Helicopter Down In Northern Iraq, 14 Dead |
| Published: August 22, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Black Hawk Helicopter, Iraq, Down |
| Black Hawk helicopter went down Wednesday in northern Iraq, killing all 14 U.S. soldiers aboard, the military said, the deadliest crash since January 2005... The military said initial indications showed the UH-60 helicopter experienced a mechanical problem and was not brought down by hostile fire, but the cause of the crash was still under |
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| Update: 14 Task Force Lightning Soldiers Die In Helicopter Downing |
| Published: August 23, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Black Hawk Helicopter, Iraq, Down, On Ground Updates |
| board, August 22nd.Two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters were conducting night operations when one of the aircraft went down shortly after extracting the Soldiers from a combat mission. On board were four Fort Lewis, Wash.-based aircrew members and 10 Schofield Barracks, Hawaii-based passengers. There is no doubt this is a tragic event, not only for |
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| Eric Bana! |
| Published: September 30, 2007, 1:01 am |
| Tags: Drew Barrymore, Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Black Hawk Down, The Hulk, Doing It |
| like "Munich", "Troy" and "Black Hawk Down". Eric is a busy man these days. He's got several films in production, including "The Other Boleyn Girl" with Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman. And while Eric has also had a number of flops ("Lucky You" with Drew Barrymore comes to mind), he also showed his true depth as an actor as the |
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| Simon West is Next to Direct an Iraq War Movie |
| Published: October 8, 2007, 1:32 pm |
| Tags: Black Hawk Down, Blackhawkdown, Cinematical, Con Air, Conair, David Zucchino, Davidzucchino, Film, George Furla, Georgefurla, Ken Nolan, Kennolan, Movie, Randall Emmett, Randallemmett, Ridley Scott, Ridleyscott, Savador Dali, Savadordali, Simon West, Simonwest, The Wicker Man |
| Zucchino's book to reading Black Hawk Down, which he found and developed as an executive producer. The important thing to remember, though, is that West didn't end up directing Black Hawk Down. The great Ridley Scott did, and it ended up a flawed but ultimately well-made film. Show me somebody in Hollywood who honestly thinks West is capable of |
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| Jake Gyllenhaal Goes to the Moon |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 6:02 am |
| Tags: Alli Shearmur, Allishearmur, Black Hawk Down, Blackhawkdown, Brothers, Cinematical, Film, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jakegyllenhaal, Joe Carnahan, Joecarnahan, John Hamburg, Johnhamburg, Killing Pablo, Killingpablo, Movie, Simon Kinberg, Simonkinberg, The Bourne Identity, Thebourneid |
| the source material for Black Hawk Down and Joe Carnahan's in-development Pablo Escobar movie, Killing Pablo. Liman, Alli Shearmur and Simon Kinberg will produce the film, which will presumably begin shooting as soon as Gyllenhaal is done with Brothers.Read Permalink Email this Comments |
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| WORLD IN BRIEF |
| Published: November 9, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: World, Brief, United States, Vojislav Seselj, Chad, France, Syria, U S Army, Uh 60 Black Hawk Helicopter, Guizhou Province, Helmand Province, Damascus, Europe, Pyongyang, Afghanistan, Bosnia And Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Italy, Naval Historical Center, North Korea, Serb |
| North Korea expressed rare gratitude Thursday for U.S. help in ending a high-seas standoff with Somali pirates, a sign of warming ties between the longtime foes, fostered by progress on Pyongyang's nuclear disarmament. |
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| PC MicroWorks rolls out Black-Hawk XR5 "super notebook" |
| Published: November 16, 2007, 11:33 pm |
| Tags: Black Hawk Xr5, Black Hawkxr5, Laptop, Notebook, Pc Microworks, Pcmicroworks |
| PC Microworks' new 17-inch Black-Hawk XR5 laptop certainly looks like it has the specs to get the job done, including room for three SATA 300 hard drives and a pair of NVIDIA's new Geforce Go 8800GTX graphics units in SLI mode. Otherwise, you can expect a range of configurable options, including your choice of Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad |
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| PC MicroWorks rolls out Black-Hawk XR5 “super notebook” |
| Published: November 17, 2007, 9:47 am |
| Tags: Gadgets, Technology News, General, Images, Daily Update, Black Hawk Xr5, Pc Microworks, Super Notebook |
| new 17-inch Black-Hawk XR5 laptop certainly looks like it has the specs to get the job done, including room for three SATA 300 hard drives and a pair of NVIDIA’s new Geforce Go 8800GTX graphics units in SLI mode. (more…) Black Hawk XR5, Gadgets, General, Images, PC, PC MicroWorks, Super Notebook, Technology |
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| Black-Hawk XR5: 17"Gaming Workstation Laptop with 8800M GTX SLI & Quad Core |
| Published: November 17, 2007, 3:21 pm |
| Tags: 8800m Gtx Sli, Black Hawk Xr, Feature, Games, Graphics, Laptop, Memory, Quad Core, Technology, Workstation |
| After the news of Alienware M15x and M17x gaming laptops, Black-Hawk XR5 is the third laptop that comes with this most powerful graphics read more |
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| Black-Hawk XR5 Laptops to Have Dual GeForce 8800s, Core 2 Quad Processor [Laptops] |
| Published: November 19, 2007, 3:54 pm |
| Tags: Black Hawk, Black Hawk Xr5, Blackhawk, Geforce 8800, Laptops, Pc Microworks, Xr5 |
| 8800GTX graphics cards, the Black-Hawk XR5 will be the first laptop to feature such graphical power. Along with a 17-inch screen, Core 2 Quad processor and EV-DO support, Black-Hawk clearly is not messing around, and intend for the XR5 to be a desktop replacement. However, our friends over at Maximum PC say the XR5 images shown are renders |
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| How Defense Research Is Making Troops More Effective in Wartime |
| Published: May 12, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: How, Defense, Research, Making, Troops, More, Effective, Wartime, Tony Tether, Iraq, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Brian Slaughter, Baghdad, Mari Maeda, Walter Pincus, Another Darpa, Microsoft Powerpoint, U S Marine Corps, Uh 60 Black Hawk Helicopter, Uni |
| When Army patrol leaders in Iraq prepare to go out on missions in Baghdad, their last stop at headquarters is a computerized map on which they outline the area where they will operate. Then they watch as icons emerge, showing, in grim detail, the lurking dangers. |
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| Army Recruiting Takes Cue From Apple, Goes High Tech |
| Published: June 16, 2008, 4:35 pm |
| Tags: America S Army, Computer, Game Companies, Game Platforms, Games, Apache Simulator, Apple, Army, Army Recruiting, Black Hawk Helicopter Simulator, Hmmwv Vehicle Simulator, Simulator |
| and its weapons systems. The Black Hawk helicopter simulator provides four door gunner positions. And, the armored HMMWV vehicle simulator has positions for a driver and several gunners. The centers also will include an area where visitors can compete in America’s Army, a videogame released in 2002. Thanks to GamePolitics for the tip. via |
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