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Sniper today is the one of the most precise weapons, weapons that promises you if you are sure of your capabilities that you’re not going to miss your target. Let’s look back a little bit in the history. In the distant 1770s sniper was used for the same purpose as today and that is to break up enemy formations and to thwart him from his goal, which is flanking the main body of their attack force. The term sniper for the first time was used in 1824 in the sense of the word “sharpshooter“.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A state-owned Abu Dhabi aircraft company is launching a joint venture with Sikorsky Aerospace Services to maintain and repair military aircraft across the Middle East. Abu Dhabi ...

WASHINGTON — In the frantic last hours of General Stanley A. McChrystal’s command in Afghanistan, when the world wondered what was racing through his mind, he reached out to an unlikely corner of his life: the author ...

Many veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder must be asking themselves why it took the Department of Veterans Affairs so long to ease the hassle of qualifying for compensation for the mental wounds of war. VA ...

Britain's military says that a soldier and a marine have died in separate attacks in Afghanistan, while an airman has been killed in a road accident. The Ministry of Defense says that the marine from 40 Commando Royal ...

This week, Israel successfully conducted a test of a new mobile missile-defense system designed to shield Israeli towns from small rockets launched from the Gaza Strip. When the “Iron Dome” system is fully deployed ...

As of Friday, July 16, 2010, at least 1,099 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Flags will be lowered throughout Missouri next week as an Army National Guard soldier killed in Afghanistan is laid to rest. Forty-two-year-old Sgt. Robert Wayne Crow of Kansas City died July 10 ...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces on Thursday upheld the high-profile court-martial conviction of former Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz, who was sentenced to six months confinement for leaking ...

Charles Moran, press secretary of the Log Cabin Republicans, is photographed outside federal court Tuesday, July 13, 2010 in Riverside, Calif. at the non-jury trial of a lawsuit filed by the Log Cabin Republicans against ...