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UC-9
The UC-9, also known as the DEB M21, is a foldable submachine gun designed by Utah Connor in the mid 1970s. Based on an Uzi 9mm and using unmodified Uzi magazines, the gun can be folded in half into a compact box design, with the initial production run styled to resemble contemporary portable transistor radios. It fires exclusively in fully automatic mode. Only nine guns were created in the original production run, in addition to the prototype, due to the Hughes Amendment halting their production. However almost a hundred additional receiver (firearms), receivers had been built and registered by this point, 76 of which were subsequently bought by Michael Shyne and completed in another run. The UC-9 saw prominent exposure in popular culture due to its use in ''RoboCop 2'' in 1990. History Utah Connor originally designed the UC-9 in the mid 1970s while working for Pearl Manufacturing. He was inspired by existing French folding submachine guns including the Hotchkiss Type Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foldable Submachine Gun
A foldable or folding machine gun (or FMG) is a type of submachine gun designed to be folded for concealed carry and can often be disguised. Examples of foldable machine guns include: * ARES FMG * FMG-9 * Hotchkiss Type Universal * PP-90 * UC-9 {{submachinegun-stub Submachine guns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RoboCop 2
''RoboCop 2'' is a 1990 American science fiction superhero action film directed by Irvin Kershner and written by Frank Miller and Walon Green. It stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan, and Gabriel Damon. It is the sequel to the 1987 film ''RoboCop'', the second entry in the ''RoboCop'' franchise and the last to feature Weller as RoboCop until he returned in ''Mortal Kombat 11'' (2019), '' RoboCop: Rogue City'' (2023) and other media; it is also the last film Kershner directed before his death in 2010. Set in a dystopian Detroit, the plot follows RoboCop (Weller) as he becomes embroiled in a scheme made by Omni Consumer Products to bankrupt and take over the city while also fighting the spread of a street drug called "Nuke" and its gang of dealers led by Cain (Noonan). The film was shot on-location in Houston. The film received mixed reviews upon its release and earned a moderate box office return, grossing $45 million domestic, compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mathis (engineer)
John G. Mathis is an American politician and a Republican member of the Utah House of Representatives representing District 55 since January 1, 2005. Early life and career Mathis earned his bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University and his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Colorado State University. Mathis lives in Vernal, Utah with his wife, Wendy, and he works as a veterinarian at Ashley Valley Veterinary Clinic. Mathis worked with Utah State University to establish Utah's first four year veterinary program, breaking ground in an official ceremony May 31, 2024. Political career *2012 Mathis was challenged but selected by the Republican convention, and unopposed for the November 6, 2012 General election, winning with 12,252 votes. *2004 When District 55 Republican Representative Jack Seitz retired and left the seat open, Mathis was selected by the Republican convention from two candidates for the four-way November 2, 2004 General election, which he won with 9,560 vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States's civil list of government space agencies, space program, aeronautics research and outer space, space research. National Aeronautics and Space Act, Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968–1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion (spacecraft), Orion spacecraft and the Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States. It is one of the Mountain States of the southern Rocky Mountains, sharing the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and Arizona. It also borders the state of Texas to the east and southeast, Oklahoma to the northeast, and shares Mexico-United States border, an international border with the Mexican states of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua and Sonora to the south. New Mexico's largest city is Albuquerque, and its List of capitals in the United States, state capital is Santa Fe, New Mexico, Santa Fe, the oldest state capital in the U.S., founded in 1610 as the government seat of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, Nuevo México in New Spain. It also has the highest elevation of any state capital, at . New Mexico is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, fifth-largest of the fifty states by area, but with just over 2.1 million residents, ranks List of U.S. states and terri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Army Special Forces
The United States Army Special Forces (SF), colloquially known as the "Green Berets" due to their distinctive service Berets of the United States Army, headgear, is a branch of the United States Army United States Army Special Operations Command, Special Operations Command (USASOC). The core missionset of Special Forces contains five doctrinal missions: unconventional warfare (United States), unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action (military), direct action, counterterrorism, and special reconnaissance. The unit emphasizes language, cultural, and training skills in working with foreign troops; recruits are required to learn a foreign language as part of their training and must maintain knowledge of the political, economic, and cultural complexities of the regions in which they are deployed. Other Special Forces missions, known as secondary missions, include combat search and rescue (CSAR), War on Drugs, counter-narcotics, hostage rescue, humanitarian as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy, Texas
Katy is a city in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in the Greater Katy area, itself forming the western part of the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Homes and businesses may have Katy postal addresses without being in the City of Katy. The city of Katy is approximately centered at the tripoint of Harris County, Texas, Harris, Fort Bend County, Texas, Fort Bend, and Waller County, Texas, Waller counties. The population was 21,894 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. First formally settled in the mid-1890s, Katy was a railway town, railroad town along the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, Missouri–Kansas–Texas (MKT) Railroad which ran parallel to U.S. Route 90 in Texas, U.S. Route 90 (today Interstate 10 in Texas, Interstate 10) into downtown Houston. Katy obtained its name when the MKT Railroad dropped its Missouri waypoint and the junction became known as the KT stop. The fertile floodplain of Buffalo Bayou, which has its River source, source near Katy, and its tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Central Research Company
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). South is sometimes abbreviated as S. Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Covert Operations
A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity of the party responsible. US law Under US law, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must lead covert operations unless the president finds that another agency should do so and informs Congress. The CIA's authority to conduct covert action comes from the National Security Act of 1947. President Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12333 titled ''United States Intelligence Activities'' in 1984. This order defined covert action as "special activities", both political and military, that the US Government could legally deny. The CIA was also designated as the sole authority under the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act and in Title 50 of the United States Code Section 413(e). The CIA must have a "Presidential Finding" issued by the President in order to conduct these activities under the Hughes-Ryan amendment to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
