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F15-E. They started to come out only at night. They started to take advantage of environmental conditions which made it difficult for us to see them. And they began to move their operations' areas farther north. The intense air attacks on Scud sites

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During the Gulf War, American pilots flew the latest fighter model the F15C. One hundred and twenty were sent abroad. They fought alongside 82 royal Saudi Air force F15Ds, essentially the same plane as the C. Saudi F15s shot down two Iraq Mirage F1s

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Very roomy. For a single-seat fighter it's spacious. Plenty of room to lay out stuff we carry with us. The nose is cut and you won't see any perpendicular surfaces go around. The four probes in the front are not machine guns. And they are not hologra

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Threat posed by Iraq's Scud ballistic missiles. Militarily, Scuds were insignificant. But politically, Scud attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia could have torn the coalition apart. The political importance of hunting down the Scuds was so great that t

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January 1991, an F-15 pilot on combat-air patrol sweeps the skies of Iraq. Sheridan, I'm Captain Medrimans, Captain in the 27th fighter squadron, flying in F-15 over Iraq. Today's been a mixed sweep, we started from the central, swept up for Bagdad,

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(There's also a piece of safety wire that, em, showed up on the X-ray. So we have to...) In fact just the opposite proved true, the number of air planes ready to fly at any given time actually increased during the war. F-15s went from an 85 percent p

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Hundreds of coalition airplanes were in the sky at any one time. Airborne warning and control system airplanes better known as AWACS kept air traffic straight. Largely thanks to AWACS there were no air-to-air friendly fire incidents during the Gulf W

英语听力文摘 English Digest 606、鲸鱼会被晒伤吗？

The ozone layer is thinner than it used to be. This fact has motivated humans to keep themselves protected from the suns ultraviolet, or UV, rays. But just because we can protect ourselves from these rays doesnt mean that they dont still existthey ex

英语听力文摘 English Digest 538、我们星球的历史！

When Continents Collide: The History Of Our Planet It was one of the Earths momentous times. Continents collided. Volcanoes erupted. Ocean currents shifted. Species ran amok. Twenty million years ago, North and South America were arranged in nearly t

2007年VOA标准英语-French Election May Bring New Era in US-France

By Andre de Nesnera Washington 04 May 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal French voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a new president to succeed Jacques Chirac. The two contenders are center-right Nicholas Sarkozy and Socialist Segolene Royal.

VOA标准英语 Lack of Effective Somali Government Root of Piracy P

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become a multi-million dollar business as armed Somali gunmen attack all sorts of vessels - from small pleasure crafts to giant oil supertankers - transiting the region. The pirates are not interested in the cargo

VOA双语新闻 Some Oil, Gas Facilities

Several oil and gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have resumed operations following Hurricane Katrina. However, an industry analyst says the full extent of damage to generating facilities is still unknown. 美国墨西哥湾地区的几个炼油厂在

New Gulf Oil Spill Report Levels Most of Blame on BP

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2007年VOA标准英语-Coalition Navy Watches for Terrorists Fleeing S

By Al Pessin Pentagon 04 January 2007 A U.S. Navy spokesman says, five to 10 coalition ships are patrolling off the coast of Somalia to prevent suspected terrorists from escaping by sea, following the military defeat of Islamists who took control of

英语听力文摘 English Digest 149、儿童新闻

Hi there, I'm Ore with the BBC World News for Children. It's Tuesday the 1st of June. Coming up: The latest attempt to plug the American oil leak has failed. World Cup teams are picked. And a Japanese teenage girl is a baseball hit! First - the Unite

Gulf health nearly at pre-spill level: AP survey

BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Almost one year after the disastrous（灾难性的 ） oil spill, scientists believe that the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal. However, the scientists restrain their optimism about natur

英语听力文摘 English Digest 299、恐龙灭绝有关石油危机？

Dinosaur Oil Crisis 恐龙灭绝有关石油危机？ 恐龙是距今1亿3千万年前地球上爬行动物的总称。它们的种类很多，身体大小、形状、生活习性各不相同，陆地、海洋、空中都是恐龙类爬行动物的活动

英语听力文摘 English Digest 235、海洋死区

Dead Zones in the Ocean 所谓海洋死区是指由于海水富营养化日益严重，导致海水中含氧量减少，鱼类等生物无法生存的区域。科学家介绍，人类过量使用化肥、大量生活垃圾、车辆和工厂排放的废