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English. Budget. $5.7–6.5 million [ 1][ 2] Box office. $57.5 million [ 2] Boyz n the Hood is a 1991 American coming-of-age hood crime drama film written and directed by John Singleton in his feature directorial debut. [ 3] It stars Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, and Laurence Fishburne (credited as Larry Fishburne), with Nia Long ...
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft with over 4,600 built since 1976. [ 4]
AIM-9 Sidewinder. The AIM-9 Sidewinder ("AIM" for "Air Intercept Missile") is a short-range air-to-air missile. Entering service with the United States Navy in 1956 and the Air Force in 1964, the AIM-9 is one of the oldest, cheapest, and most successful air-to-air missiles. [ 3] Its latest variants remain standard equipment in most Western ...
The AIM-7 Sparrow (Air Intercept Missile [ 5]) is an American medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and various other air forces and navies. Sparrow and its derivatives were the West's principal beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air ...
The side grip is a technique for shooting a handgun in which the weapon is rotated about ninety degrees and held horizontally instead of vertically (as is normally done). Shooting a gun in this way has no practical benefit under most circumstances and makes proper aiming very difficult, but the style has become somewhat popular in hip hop ...
Air-to-Air Stinger. The Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS)[ 1] (also unofficially called AIM-92 Stinger) is an air-to-air missile system developed from the shoulder-launched FIM-92 Stinger, for use on helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache, T129 ATAK, [ 2] Eurocopter Tiger, and also UAVs such as the MQ-1 Predator. The missile itself is identical to the ...
AIM-120 AMRAAM. The AIM-120[ a] Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) ( / æmræm / AM-ram) is an American beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile capable of all-weather day-and-night operations. It uses active transmit-receive radar guidance instead of semi-active receive-only radar guidance.
A.I.M. troopers from Tales of Suspense #94. Art by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott. A.I.M. ( Advanced Idea Mechanics) is a fictional criminal organization appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, it first appeared in Strange Tales #146 (July 1966). [ 2]