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15,700 | The Polish contingent in Iraq used six Mi-24Ds after December 2004. One of them crashed on 18 July 2006 in an air base in Al Diwaniyah. Polish Mi-24Ds used in Iraq were not returned to Poland due to their age, condition, low combat value of the Mi-24D variant, and high shipping costs; depending on their condition, they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,701 | The Ethiopian Air Force operated about three Mil Mi-35 and ten Mil Mi-24D helicopter gunships in the Somali theatre. One was shot down near Mogadishu International Airport on 30 March 2007 by Somali insurgents. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,702 | Mil Mi-24s were used by both sides during the fighting in South Ossetia. During the war Georgian Air Force Mi-24s attacked their first targets on an early morning hour of 8 August, targeting the Ossetian presidential palace. The second target was a cement factory near Tskhinval, where major enemy forces and ammunition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,703 | On returning to Abeche, one of the Chadian Mi-35s made a forced landing at the airport. It was claimed that it was shot down by rebels. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,704 | The Libyan Air Force Mi-24s were used by both sides to attack enemy positions during the 2011 Libyan civil war. A number were captured by the rebels, who formed the Free Libyan Air Force together with other captured air assets. During the battle for Benina airport, one Mi-35 (serial number 853), was destroyed on the gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,705 | Ukrainian army Mi-24P helicopters as part of the United Nations peacekeeping force fired four missiles at a pro-Gbagbo military camp in Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,706 | The Syrian Air Force have used Mi-24s to attack rebels throughout Syria, including many of the nation's major cities. Controversy has surrounded an alleged delivery of Mi-25s to the Syrian military, due to Turkey and other NATO members disallowing such arms shipments through their territory. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,707 | On 3 November 2016, a Russian Mi-35 made an emergency landing near Syria's Palmyra city, and was hit and destroyed, most likely by an unguided recoilless weapon after it touched down. The crew returned safely to the Khmeimim air base. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,708 | Two Mi-35 helicopters were shot down by the Kachin Independence Army during the heavy fighting in the mountains of northern Burma in 2012 and early 2013. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,709 | On 3 May 2021, in the morning, a Myanmar Air Force Mi-35 was shot down by the Kachin Independence Army, hit by a MANPADS during air raids involving attack helicopters and fighter jets. A video emerged showing the helicopter being hit while flying over a village. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,710 | Iraq ordered a total of 34 Mi-35Ms in 2013, as part of an arms deal with Russia that also included Mi-28 attack helicopters. The delivery of the first four was announced by then-Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in November 2013. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,711 | Their first deployment began in late December against camps of the al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and several Islamist militants in the al-Anbar province that had taken control of several areas of Fallujah and Ramadi. FLIR footage of the strikes has been released by the military. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,712 | On 3 October 2014, ISIL militants reportedly used a FN-6 shoulder-launched missile in Baiji to shoot down an Iraqi Army Mi-35M attack helicopter. Video footage released by ISIL militants shows at least another two Iraqi Mi-35s brought down by light anti-aircraft artillery. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,713 | In 2018, Pakistan received 4 Mi-35M Hind-E Gunships from Russia under the $153 million deal. They are now stationed at the Army Aviation Corps base at Quetta Cantonment. The gunships have since been used in several counter insurgency operations against various militant groups in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,714 | In early 2022, a base in Nushki and a check-post in Panjgur belonging to the Frontier Corps Balochistan Paramilitary were attacked by BLA terrorists. The attack in Nushki was swiftly repulsed but the situation in Panjgaur was not good to which Mi-35 Hind and AH-1F Cobra gunships were called in for support. It provided ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,715 | During the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, Russia deployed 13 Mi-24s to support their infantry as they advanced through the region. However these aircraft saw no combat during their deployment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,716 | During the Siege of Sloviansk, on 2 May 2014, two Ukrainian Mi-24s were shot down by pro-Russian insurgents. The Ukrainian armed forces claim that they were downed by MANPADS while on patrol close to Slavyansk. The Ukrainian government confirmed that both aircraft were shot down, along with an Mi-8 damaged by small arm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,717 | On 5 May 2014, another Ukrainian Mi-24 was forced to make an emergency landing after being hit by machine gun fire while on patrol close to Slavyansk. The Ukrainian forces recovered the two pilots and destroyed the helicopter with a rocket strike by an Su-25 aircraft to prevent its capture by pro-Russian insurgents. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,718 | Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft, with MiG-29 fighters providing top cover, supported Mi-24s during the battle for Donetsk Airport. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,719 | On 12 November 2014, Azerbaijani forces shot down an Armenian forces Mi-24 from a formation of two which were flying along the disputed border, close to the frontline between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in the disputed Karabakh territory. The helicopter was hit by an Igla-S shoulder-launched missile fired by Azerba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,720 | On 2 April 2016, during a clash between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces, an Azerbaijani Mi-24 helicopter was shot down by "Nagorno-Karabakh" forces. The downing was confirmed by the Azerbaijani defence ministry. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,721 | On 9 November 2020, during the Nagorno-Karabakh war a Russian Mi-24 was shot down by Azerbaijani forces with a MANPADS. The Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry stated that the downing was an accident. Two crew members were killed and one sustained moderate injuries. The Russian defence ministry confirmed the downing in a press... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,722 | During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 1 March, Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Mi-35M helicopter with MANPADS, in the Kyiv Reservoir (see also Battle of Kyiv). On 5 May 2022, the helicopter was retrieved by Ukrainian engineers in Vyshgorod. Two Russian Mi-35 were shot down by a MANPADS on 5 March 2022. O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384591 |
15,723 | Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software). Computer science is gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,724 | The theory of computation concerns abstract models of computation and general classes of problems that can be solved using them. The fields of cryptography and computer security involve studying the means for secure communication and for preventing security vulnerabilities. Computer graphics and computational geometry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,725 | The fundamental concern of computer science is determining what can and cannot be automated. The Turing Award is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,726 | The earliest foundations of what would become computer science predate the invention of the modern digital computer. Machines for calculating fixed numerical tasks such as the abacus have existed since antiquity, aiding in computations such as multiplication and division. Algorithms for performing computations have exi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,727 | Wilhelm Schickard designed and constructed the first working mechanical calculator in 1623. In 1673, Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated a digital mechanical calculator, called the Stepped Reckoner. Leibniz may be considered the first computer scientist and information theorist, because of various reasons, including the fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,728 | During the 1940s, with the development of new and more powerful computing machines such as the Atanasoff–Berry computer and ENIAC, the term "computer" came to refer to the machines rather than their human predecessors. As it became clear that computers could be used for more than just mathematical calculations, the fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,729 | Although first proposed in 1956, the term "computer science" appears in a 1959 article in "Communications of the ACM", | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,730 | in which Louis Fein argues for the creation of a "Graduate School in Computer Sciences" analogous to the creation of Harvard Business School in 1921. Louis justifies the name by arguing that, like management science, the subject is applied and interdisciplinary in nature, while having the characteristics typical of an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,731 | His efforts, and those of others such as numerical analyst George Forsythe, were rewarded: universities went on to create such departments, starting with Purdue in 1962. Despite its name, a significant amount of computer science does not involve the study of computers themselves. Because of this, several alternative na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,732 | In the early days of computing, a number of terms for the practitioners of the field of computing were suggested in the "Communications of the ACM"—"turingineer", "turologist", "flow-charts-man", "applied meta-mathematician", and "applied epistemologist". Three months later in the same journal, "comptologist" was sugge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,733 | A folkloric quotation, often attributed to—but almost certainly not first formulated by—Edsger Dijkstra, states that "computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." The design and deployment of computers and computer systems is generally considered the province of disciplines other tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,734 | Computer science is considered by some to have a much closer relationship with mathematics than many scientific disciplines, with some observers saying that computing is a mathematical science. Early computer science was strongly influenced by the work of mathematicians such as Kurt Gödel, Alan Turing, John von Neumann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,735 | The relationship between Computer Science and Software Engineering is a contentious issue, which is further muddied by disputes over what the term "Software Engineering" means, and how computer science is defined. David Parnas, taking a cue from the relationship between other engineering and science disciplines, has cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,736 | The academic, political, and funding aspects of computer science tend to depend on whether a department is formed with a mathematical emphasis or with an engineering emphasis. Computer science departments with a mathematics emphasis and with a numerical orientation consider alignment with computational science. Both ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,737 | Despite the word "science" in its name, there is debate over whether or not computer science is a discipline of science, mathematics, or engineering. Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon argued in 1975, It has since been argued that computer science can be classified as an empirical science since it makes use of empirical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,738 | Proponents of classifying computer science as a mathematical discipline argue that computer programs are physical realizations of mathematical entities and programs can be deductively reasoned through mathematical formal methods. Computer scientists Edsger W. Dijkstra and Tony Hoare regard instructions for computer pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,739 | A number of computer scientists have argued for the distinction of three separate paradigms in computer science. Peter Wegner argued that those paradigms are science, technology, and mathematics. Peter Denning's working group argued that they are theory, abstraction (modeling), and design. Amnon H. Eden described them ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,740 | Computer science focuses on methods involved in design, specification, programming, verification, implementation and testing of human-made computing systems. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,741 | As a discipline, computer science spans a range of topics from theoretical studies of algorithms and the limits of computation to the practical issues of implementing computing systems in hardware and software. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,742 | CSAB, formerly called Computing Sciences Accreditation Board—which is made up of representatives of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS)—identifies four areas that it considers crucial to the discipline of computer science: "theory of computation", "algorithms and data ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,743 | "Theoretical Computer Science" is mathematical and abstract in spirit, but it derives its motivation from the practical and everyday computation. Its aim is to understand the nature of computation and, as a consequence of this understanding, provide more efficient methodologies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,744 | According to Peter Denning, the fundamental question underlying computer science is, "What can be automated?" Theory of computation is focused on answering fundamental questions about what can be computed and what amount of resources are required to perform those computations. In an effort to answer the first question,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,745 | The famous P = NP? problem, one of the Millennium Prize Problems, is an open problem in the theory of computation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,746 | Information theory, closely related to probability and statistics, is related to the quantification of information. This was developed by Claude Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and communicating data. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,747 | Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes (systems for converting information from one form to another) and their fitness for a specific application. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, and more recently also for network coding. Codes are studied for the purpos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,748 | Data structures and algorithms are the studies of commonly used computational methods and their computational efficiency. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,749 | Programming language theory is a branch of computer science that deals with the design, implementation, analysis, characterization, and classification of programming languages and their individual features. It falls within the discipline of computer science, both depending on and affecting mathematics, software enginee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,750 | Formal methods are a particular kind of mathematically based technique for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems. The use of formal methods for software and hardware design is motivated by the expectation that, as in other engineering disciplines, performing appropriate mathem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,751 | Computer architecture, or digital computer organization, is the conceptual design and fundamental operational structure of a computer system. It focuses largely on the way by which the central processing unit performs internally and accesses addresses in memory. Computer engineers study computational logic and design o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,752 | Concurrency is a property of systems in which several computations are executing simultaneously, and potentially interacting with each other. A number of mathematical models have been developed for general concurrent computation including Petri nets, process calculi and the Parallel Random Access Machine model. When mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,753 | Computer security is a branch of computer technology with the objective of protecting information from unauthorized access, disruption, or modification while maintaining the accessibility and usability of the system for its intended users. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,754 | Historical cryptography is the art of writing and deciphering secret messages. Modern cryptography is the scientific study of problems relating to distributed computations that can be attacked. Technologies studied in modern cryptography include symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signatures, cryptographic has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,755 | A database is intended to organize, store, and retrieve large amounts of data easily. Digital databases are managed using database management systems to store, create, maintain, and search data, through database models and query languages. Data mining is a process of discovering patterns in large data sets. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,756 | Artificial intelligence (AI) aims to or is required to synthesize goal-orientated processes such as problem-solving, decision-making, environmental adaptation, learning, and communication found in humans and animals. From its origins in cybernetics and in the Dartmouth Conference (1956), artificial intelligence researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,757 | Computer graphics is the study of digital visual contents and involves the synthesis and manipulation of image data. The study is connected to many other fields in computer science, including computer vision, image processing, and computational geometry, and is heavily applied in the fields of special effects and video... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,758 | Information can take the form of images, sound, video or other multimedia. Bits of information can be streamed via signals. Its processing is the central notion of informatics, the European view on computing, which studies information processing algorithms independently of the type of information carrier - whether it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,759 | Scientific computing (or computational science) is the field of study concerned with constructing mathematical models and quantitative analysis techniques and using computers to analyze and solve scientific problems. A major usage of scientific computing is simulation of various processes, including computational fluid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,760 | Social computing is an area that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. Human–computer interaction research develops theories, principles, and guidelines for user interface designers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,761 | Software engineering is the study of designing, implementing, and modifying the software in order to ensure it is of high quality, affordable, maintainable, and fast to build. It is a systematic approach to software design, involving the application of engineering practices to software. Software engineering deals with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,762 | Programming languages can be used to accomplish different tasks in different ways. Common programming paradigms include: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,763 | Many languages offer support for multiple paradigms, making the distinction more a matter of style than of technical capabilities. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,764 | Conferences are important events for computer science research. During these conferences, researchers from the public and private sectors present their recent work and meet. Unlike in most other academic fields, in computer science, the prestige of conference papers is greater than that of journal publications. One pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,765 | Computer Science, known by its near synonyms, Computing, Computer Studies, has been taught in UK schools since the days of batch processing, mark sensitive cards and paper tape but usually to a select few students. In 1981, the BBC produced a micro-computer and classroom network and Computer Studies became common for G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,766 | In the US, with 14,000 school districts deciding the curriculum, provision was fractured. According to a 2010 report by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), only 14 out of 50 states have adopted significant education standards for high school computer science. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,767 | Israel, New Zealand, and South Korea have included computer science in their national secondary education curricula, and several others are following. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 |
15,768 | Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (born 9 January 1955) is an Indian diplomat and politician serving as the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 30 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019, representing Gujarat. He previously s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,769 | He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1977 and during his diplomatic career spanning over 38 years, he served in different capacities in India and abroad including as a High Commissioner to Singapore (2007–09) and as Ambassador to the Czech Republic (2001–04), China (2009–2013) and the US (2014–2015). Jaishankar play... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,770 | On retirement, Jaishankar joined Tata Sons as the President, Global Corporate Affairs. In 2019, he was conferred with Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour. On 30 May 2019, he was sworn in as a cabinet minister in the second Modi ministry. He was made the Minister of External Affairs on 31 May 2019. He is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,771 | Jaishankar was born in a Tamil family in New Delhi, India to prominent Indian strategic affairs analyst, commentator and civil servant K. Subrahmanyam and Sulochana Subrahmanyam. He has two brothers: the historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam and the IAS officer S. Vijay Kumar, former Rural Development Secretary of India. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,772 | Jaishankar did his schooling from The Air Force School, Subroto Park, New Delhi, and is a graduate in Chemistry from St. Stephen's College at the University of Delhi. He has an MA in Political Science and an M.Phil. and PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), where he specialised in nucle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,773 | After joining the Indian Foreign Service in 1977, Jaishankar served as third secretary and second secretary in the Indian mission to the Soviet Union in Moscow from 1979 to 1981, where he studied Russian. He returned to New Delhi, where he worked as a special assistant to the diplomat Gopalaswami Parthasarathy and as u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,774 | From 1988 to 1990, he served in Sri Lanka as First Secretary and political adviser to the Indian Peacekeeping Force (IPKF). From 1990 to 1993, he was Counsellor (Commercial) at the Indian mission in Budapest. Returning to New Delhi, he served as Director (East Europe) in the Ministry of External Affairs and as press se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,775 | Jaishankar was then Deputy Chief of Mission at the Indian Embassy in Tokyo from 1996 to 2000. This period saw a downturn in Indo-Japan relations following India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests as well as a recovery after a visit to India by then Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori. Jaishankar is reported to have helped int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,776 | From 2004 to 2007, Jaishankar was Joint Secretary (Americas) at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. In this capacity, he was involved in negotiating the US-India civil nuclear agreement and improving defence co-operation, including during relief operations following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Jaishankar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,777 | From 2007 to 2009, Jaishankar served as India's High Commissioner to Singapore. During his tenure, he helped implement the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) that expanded the Indian business presence in Singapore, and oversaw a defence arrangement by which Singapore keeps some of its military equipmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,778 | Jaishankar was India's longest-serving ambassador to China, with a four-and-a-half-year term. In Beijing, Jaishankar was involved in improving economic, trade and cultural relations between China and India, and in managing the Sino-Indian border dispute. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,779 | Jaishankar's tenure as India's ambassador to China coincided with several major developments in relations between the two countries. His 2010 briefing to the Indian Cabinet Committee on Security regarding China's refusal to issue a visa to the head of the Indian Army’s Northern Command led to a suspension of Indian def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,780 | Jaishankar advocated deeper Indian co-operation with China as long as India's "core interests" were respected, and argued for better market access for Indian businesses operating in China on the grounds that more balanced trade was necessary for the bilateral economic relationship to be sustainable. He was also involve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,781 | Jaishankar was appointed as India's Ambassador to United States in September 2013. He took charge on 23 December 2013 succeeding Nirupama Rao. He arrived in United States amid the Devyani Khobragade incident, and was involved in negotiating the Indian diplomat's departure from United States. On 29 January 2014, Jaishan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,782 | On 10 March 2014, he formally presented his credentials to US President Barack Obama at the Oval Office. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,783 | Jaishankar was involved in planning of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden visit to United States in September 2014, welcoming him upon his arrival and hosting a dinner in his honour for members of the Indian-American community. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,784 | Jaishankar was appointed as Foreign Secretary of India on 29 January 2015. The announcement of his appointment was made following a 28 January 2015 meeting of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Jaishankar is widely credited by Nepalese analysts for being the "origina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,785 | On 31 May 2019, he was appointed to the Office of Minister of External Affairs. Jaishankar was sworn in as Cabinet minister on 30 May 2019. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,786 | On 5 July 2019, he was elected as Member of Parliament from Bharatiya Janata Party to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat state. He succeeded late Sushma Swaraj who was the External Affairs Minister in Narendra Modi's Government in his first stint. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,787 | In October 2020, Jaishankar and the Indian Minister of Defence, Rajnath Singh met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper to sign the Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement on Geospatial Cooperation (BECA), which facilitates the sharing of sensitive information and intelligenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,788 | Jaishankar is married to Kyoko, who is of Japanese origin and has two sons—Dhruva and Arjun—and a daughter, Medha. He speaks Russian, English, Tamil, Hindi, conversational Japanese, Chinese and some Hungarian. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40435868 |
15,789 | The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace, arms, defense, information security, and technology corporation with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in North Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington, D.C. area. Lockh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,790 | Lockheed Martin is one of the largest companies in the aerospace, military support, security, and technologies industry. It is the world's largest defense contractor by revenue for fiscal year 2014. In 2013, 78% of Lockheed Martin's revenues came from military sales; it topped the list of US federal government contract... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,791 | Half of the corporation’s annual sales are to the U.S. Department of Defense. Lockheed Martin is also a contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,792 | Lockheed Martin operates in four business segments: Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control (MFC), Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS), and Space. The company has received the Collier Trophy six times, including in 2001 for being part of developing the X-35/F-35B LiftFan Propulsion System and most recently in 2018 for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,793 | Merger talks between Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta began in March 1994, with the companies announcing their $10 billion planned merger on August 30, 1994. The headquarters for the combined companies would be at Martin Marietta headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland. The deal was finalized on March 15, 1995... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,794 | The company's executives received large bonuses directly from the government as a result of the merger. Norman R. Augustine who was at the time CEO of Martin Marietta received an $8.2 million bonus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,795 | Both companies contributed important products to the new portfolio. Lockheed products included the Trident missile, P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance airplanes, F-117 Nighthawk, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-22 Raptor, C-130 Hercules, A-4AR Fightinghawk and the DSCS-3 satellite. Martin Marietta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,796 | On April 22, 1996, Lockheed Martin completed the acquisition of Loral Corporation's defense electronics and system integration businesses for $9.1 billion, the deal having been announced in January. The remainder of Loral became Loral Space & Communications. Lockheed Martin abandoned plans for an $8.3 billion merger wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,797 | For the Mars Climate Orbiter, Lockheed Martin incorrectly provided NASA with software using measurements in US Customary force units when metric units were expected; this resulted in the loss of the Orbiter at a cost of $125 million. The development of the spacecraft cost $193.1 million. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,798 | In addition to their military products, in the 1990s Lockheed Martin developed the texture mapping chip for the Sega Model 2 arcade system board and the entire graphics system for the Sega Model 3, which were used to power some of the most popular arcade games of the time. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
15,799 | In May 2001, Lockheed Martin sold Lockheed Martin Control Systems to BAE Systems. On November 27, 2000, Lockheed completed the sale of its Aerospace Electronic Systems business to BAE Systems for $1.67 billion, a deal announced in July 2000. This group encompassed Sanders Associates, Fairchild Systems, and Lockheed Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66527 |
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