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国家地理:Wings Over The Gulf 波湾战机 - 6

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

VOA常速英语2007-Australia Welcoming More Arab Gulf Tourists

By Phil Mercer Sydney, Australia 01 October 2007 Tourism officials in Australia say the number of visitors from Arab Gulf nations is increasing. Airlines are scheduling more flights between the Middle East and Australia to accommodate the rising popu

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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

国家地理:Wings Over The Gulf 波湾战机 - 4

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

VOA常速英语2007-Gulf States Shopping for US Investments

By Mil Arcega Washington 02 October 2007 Oil prices retreated Monday following record-breaking surges last month that saw the price of crude soar above $84 a barrel. Despite prices dipping to more seasonal levels on Monday, the high cost of energy co

VOA标准英语10月-Most Arab, Gulf Stock Markets Lower for Third Day

Most Gulf stock exchanges traded lower again, but with smaller losses than in previous sessions. Financial difficulties by the United Arab Emirates second-largest bank are causing a ripple effect in various countries, including Kuwait, as Edward Yer

New Gulf Oil Spill Report Levels Most of Blame on BP

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2007年VOA标准英语-Dozens Meet Violent Death Crossing Gulf Of Aden

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 September 2007 The UN refugee agency reports at least 56 people have died violently in the past few days while trying to make the perilous crossing from Somalia to Yemen. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from UNHCR headquarters

VOA标准英语2008年-UN Says People Smuggling Across Gulf of Aden Do

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 11 May 2008 The U.N. refugee agency reports the number of people arriving on the coast of Yemen after being smuggled across the treacherous Gulf of Aden from the Horn of Africa has more than doubled this year. At the same time,

VOA标准英语10月-Gulf Markets Plunge, Oil Prices Lower

Fears of a global recession and falling oil prices are driving Gulf stock markets down dramatically, once again, and the generally morose economic climate has Arab investors scrambling for cover, as Edward Yeranian reports for VOA from Beirut. Stock

BP discovers new oil in Gulf of Mexico

HOUSTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- British oil giant BP announced Wednesday it had a major oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. An appraisal well the company drilled in a previously untested northern segment of the Mad Dog field in the Gulf of Mexico found

Gulf Arab countries forecast high returns for renewable energy

DUBAI, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said Saturday the six GCC countries' returns through renewable energy integration could hit 200 billion U.S. dollars by 2030. IRENA said in an e-mailed repor

Sources of persistent sheen in Gulf of Mexico remain unknown

HOUSTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday that underwater inspections at the site of BP's 2010 rig explosion have failed to identify the sources of a persistent sheen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Meanwhile, it said th

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

BP Reaches Deal for Gulf Oil Spill Lawsuits

British Petroleum has announced it has reached a multi-billion-dollar agreement with fishermen and other plaintiffs who sued over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill off the U.S. coast. BP says the $7.8 billion deal represents a partial settlement in t