Word: komar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people in the world that do it," he adds, if he is asked whether harm might not come to people trying to break the "duration record for lying on a bed of nails (needle-sharp 6-inch nails, 2 inches apart)" which is "25 hours by Vernon E. Craig (Komar, the Indian fakir...
...sovereignty over the islands, and pointed out that Saigon has maintained a meteorological station on neighboring Pattie Island for decades. The South Vietnamese government ordered two of its 2,800-ton coastal cutters and four smaller ships to the Paracels to shadow a Chinese flotilla of seven ships including Komar-class gunboats equipped with Russian-made Styx surface-to-surface missiles. The Vietnamese then landed a commando team on Duncan Island and cut down the Chinese flag. According to Peking, shells from Vietnamese ships killed and injured a number of Chinese fishermen who were on the island. Saigon, however, maintains...
Curious Battle. Off the Syrian coast, the first naval encounter ended in a clear-cut Israeli victory: missile boats armed with the highly touted Israeli-made Gabriel missile attacked and sank four Syrian missile ships of the Russian Komar class and one small motor torpedo boat...
...British Centurion tanks more effectively than the Arabs have their lighter Russian-made T-54/55s. Neither side has had much opportunity to test how effectively they use the surface-to-air missiles protecting their base areas and cities. But by sinking four of Syria's Soviet-built Komar missile boats off Latakia on Saturday, the Israeli navy has shown how skillfully it has mastered the made-in-Israel radar-guided Gabriel missiles. Most Western military analysts expect the Israeli forces to defeat the combined Arab forces. But if Israel should find itself facing extinction, it is widely assumed...
...Black Sea and the Pacific-of 270 to 350 vessels each. It is second in overall size only to that of the U.S., and in some categories of ships, it is far ahead (see chart). In general the Russian ships-which range in size from swift 83.7-ft. Komar missile boats to the 19,200-ton Sverdlov cruisers, no longer in production-are faster and younger than the U.S.'s (an average of about eight years, v. about 18 for American ships...