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BAE Systems near $800 mln Saudi Hawk deal -report May 6 (Reuters) - BAE Systems is close to sealing a 500 million pounds ($808 million) deal to sell up to 30 Hawk trainer aircraft to Saudi Arabia, the Sunday Times reported. The sale would provide some welcome relief for the defence giant, which is battling against shrinking defence budgets in Europe and America. Saudi Arabia has ordered 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets from BAE and needs the Hawks to train its pilots. The order is expected to be finalised within the next few months but it is likely to come too...

Moakler -- a former Miss USA and Playboy playmate, who currently hosts “Bridalplasty” on E! -- broke the news herself via her Twitter account, stating on Monday that “A eagle attacked my 2 chi's today, my girl pup is at the vet, my boy is missing.” “Chi’s” are Chihuahuas, and Moakler later clarified that it was a hawk that attacked the pets at her Calabasas home. The small dogs are easy prey for large raptors like hawks and eagles -- in this case, one was injured and the other is presumably hawk food.

Violet, the red-tailed hawk whose intimate family life in a nest overlooking Washington Square Park was chronicled on a live-streaming webcam, delighting more than a million viewers with the sacred spectacle of nature, died on Thursday. She was believed to be about 5 years old. A metal wildlife band that had been placed on her leg in 2006 and was wedged awkwardly on her shin appeared to exacerbate the situation. Wildlife experts and veterinarians were summoned by the university and the state to determine if it was possible to lure her away from the nest and treat her leg, but...

Beautiful video!

NEW YORK, - A New York woman says she had nearly given up hope her pet cat, Eddie, was still alive after the feline was carried off by a red-tailed hawk. But Eddie, who weighs in at a hefty 15 pounds, was found stunned and disheveled but still kicking in the back yard of an apartment building after the estimated 4-pound bird apparently couldn't hang on and dropped it. Eddie plummeted an estimated five stories but was no worse for wear, the New York Daily News said Saturday. "He checked out fine, other than some minor cuts, scrapes and bruises,"...

Paris 2011: Next-generation Hawk vies for export sales By: David Donald June 20, 2011 Military Aircraft BAE Systems brings its Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer (AJT) to the Paris Air Show seeking to extend the life of its hugely successful trainer, which has already trained around 20,000 pilots. There are plenty of opportunities for the Hawk AJT, including the potentially massive T-X requirement for a T-38 replacement for the U.S. Air Force. T-X envisions the acquisition of around 350 aircraft with initial operating capability to be achieved in 2017. A formal request is expected in the third quarter of this year,...

WASHINGTON, Officials with the Library of Congress in Washington said a female Cooper's hawk was captured after spending a week trapped in the facility. Matt Raymond, the library's director of communications, said the hawk is believed to have flown in through a window Jan. 19 and spent a week evading capture in the Thomas Jefferson Building's Main Reading Room, The Washington Post reported Thursday. The hawk, which fed on frozen quail from a trap without being snared, was caught using starlings as bait by a Raptor Conservancy of Virginia team at about 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. The team spent about 25...

BAE pushes Hawk jet trainers for Iraq Published: Sept. 24, 2010 BAGHDAD, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Iraq is moving forward with plans to buy 24 Hawk jet training aircraft from BAE Systems of Britain, a deal worth up to $1.6 billion, as it gradually rebuilds its air force amid the U.S. military withdrawal. Defense sources said an Iraqi air force team test-flew and evaluated the single-engine jet, which is used to train pilots for supersonic combat, in Britain in May and June. But it isn't clear when a deal for the Advanced Jet Trainer might be concluded. "BAE Systems will...

BAE in talks to supply Hawk jets to India By Sylvia Pfeifer in London Published: April 19 2010 01:41 | BAE Systems is in talks with the Indian government to supply up to 60 more Hawk trainer jets to the country’s military in a deal that could be worth up to £500m ($768m). A deal would probably see Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL), the state-run defence company, place an order for the aircraft with the UK-based defence group. This could happen in the next few months, according to industry sources. India ordered 66 Hawk jets from BAE in 2004 at a cost...

AP) STONINGTON, Conn. (AP) - Authorities say an aggressive red-tailed hawk has attacked at least five people recently in a Connecticut town, including a woman who needed medical care after being cut on the head. Police in Stonington, a shoreline town bordering Rhode Island, warned residents Wednesday by e-mail and through the town's reverse 911 system to watch out for the large hawk. Recess and gym classes at a nearby school were held indoors.....

‘Spenser’ novelist Robert Parker dies at age 77 Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - Updated 60m ago Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive and modernize the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his "Spenser" series, has died. He was 77. An ambulance was sent to Parker’s home in Cambridge on Monday morning for reports of a sudden death, said Alexa Manocchio, spokeswoman for the Cambridge police department.

I awakened the other morning from a dream to a vivid certainty. The certainty is that America is in mortal danger. Our country has reached a pivot point in its national existence, and the American people must now decide whether this country will be victorious or join the long line of historically vanquished nations.

Pictured: The Tiny Kingbird That Took A Piggyback On A Predatory Hawk And Lived To Tell The Tale By Daily Mail Reporter 28th September 2009 How far would you go to get rid of an unwelcome visitor? This is the moment a tiny kingbird decided it was time to see off a potential predator circling his home. In a bold move, the aggressive little bird launched itself at the fearsome red-tailed hawk and sank its talons into the larger bird's back. [Pic in URL] Enlarge Time you were going: The red-tailed hawk shrieks in pain as the brave kingbird sinks...

WASHINGTON – Hey, kids, don't try this at home. Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk on Friday took a brief ride at the White House as part of a Father's Day celebration. Hawk, 41, skated in the grand foyer and the nearby Old Executive Office Building, with the permission of White House officials.

Avigdor Lieberman - branded a racist by critics - set to be foreign minister James Hider in Jerusalem Israel's next foreign minister looks set to be Avigdor Lieberman, the Soviet immigrant whose controversial policies have been condemned widely by the country's regional neighbours. His critics accuse him of being an Arab-hating racist but he is hailed by supporters as a strongman who will deal harshly with the state's enemies, in particular Iran, which he has threatened to bomb. Mr Lieberman has threatened to bomb a number of Israel's neighbours, including Egypt, with whom the Jewish state has a peace treaty....

VIENNA, Va. -- For a Virginia doctor, squirrels are a man's best friend, too. Thomas Shepler, a hand surgeon, shot a hawk to death in his backyard when he said the bird was eyeing a young squirrel that he and his wife had helped raise.

This is how I spent my day, too pretty to watch anything on TV! This is an immature bird, I'm only 90% on the ID, several of the hawks have similar young. I got through a whole day without being busted by a rentacop!

TVland begins the M*A*S*H series

Bird of prey found dead along road had claw sticking through its chest A hawk was found dead along a California highway with the claw of a songbird protruding from its chest. It's not clear, however, if the partially digested meal, one claw somehow managing to get back out from a terribly wrong location, had anything to do with the hawk's death. On the evening of Sunday, March 30, Julia Di Sieno of the Animal Rescue Team in California noticed the dead sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus) while driving a sick night heron to the Solvang Veterinary Hospital. Sharp-shinned hawks are...

"Professional golfer Tripp Isenhour is charged with killing a bird on purpose with a golf shot...." "...According to court records cited by the Orlando Sentinel, Isenhauer hit a number of shots, once hitting a tree trunk. The paper reported that on Isenhour's 10th swing, the ball hit the bird."

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour was charged with killing a hawk on purpose with a golf shot because it was making noise as he videotaped a TV show Isenhour was with a film crew for "Shoot Like A Pro" on Dec. 12 at the Grand Cypress Golf course. The 39-year-old golfer, whose real name is John Henry Isenhour III, was charged Monday with cruelty to animals and killing a migratory bird. According to court documents, Isenhour got upset when a red-shouldered hawk began making noise, forcing another take. He began hitting balls at the bird, then...

Red-Tailed Hawks and Hen are a mixed family and only see their mother as another hawk. Mother has learned to speak a little red-tailed hawk sound. This is a short film animation by o7jimmy (Revski).

Kremlin hawks feed conspiracy theories with 3,200 white mice Mark Franchetti RUSSIANS bored by today’s predictable presidential election have turned their attention to a puzzle that emerged from the corridors of power last week: what on earth did the Kremlin want with 3,200 white mice worth more than £10,000? The Federal Guard Service, the Russian equivalent of the American Secret Service and guardian of both Vladimir Putin’s security and the Kremlin grounds, advertised for the rodents, specifying that they should be female, white, laboratory-bred and weighing no more than 18 grams (just over half an ounce). Delivery to be arranged...

This video is good footage of a Red Tailed Hawk, also known as a Chicken Hawk and it’s Song. I redid this video with a little more effects. I'm sure you will enjoy this animated video. Revski :)

Not funny. This video is good footage of a Red Tailed Hawk and it’s Song. If you click on this footage of a little less than a minute, I'm sure you will enjoy it. Revski (o7jimmy)

I love McDonald’s food but if you ask for your choice of bread on your order and that choice is wheat bread, no deal. Check out this short funny rap on, wheat bread. Revski

I am sure that some of Freerepublic readers like hawks. Check you-tube link and find a polish hawk. Revski

Hawks are rarely seen up close and the song they sing differs from different types of hawks. Hear the sound of a Red-Shoulder Hawk when it sings from a branch.

All or most of us have heard the fraise, a bird of prey; this short video is from a Revski-pun, Bird of Pray. Revski

Top of the food chain in my yard, this female Red shouldered hawk sees everything that moves. I can get within 10 feet, haven't tried to get closer. I've been watching her for about 3 years, and she watches back.

Near home, Cabbage Hammock, Florida, almost Heaven!

A female Red shouldered hawk, near my home.

When I saw this bird I assumed it was my old regular neighborhood Red shouldered hawk. It's a Cooper's Hawk, first I've seen around the swamp, or maybe the first time I noticed.

My favorite bird again.

Cold weather up North has the birds moving. We have resident Red Shoulder Hawks, but this weekend there was a hawk almost anywhere you looked. This is a local bird, it has a toe tip missing on the left foot. The newcomers aren't as easy to approach.

I guess I'm hooked on watching these guys hunt. This one is a regular over a hayfield close to my home, he almost totally ignores me. There is another Red shouldered Hawk that is a newcomer, may be a female, it stays about 1/2 mile out of this birds territory. They can see a mouse or rat an amazing distance away, you think they are dozing, and all of a sudden they're airborne. I'm still trying for flight shots, so far I'm just not fast enough.

Red Shouldered Hawk, he showed up right on schedule this year. Cool thing is, he remembered me, I can get up close with the camera.

Things have been slow as summer winds down, but, along about this time, last year, the Red Shouldered Hawks were hunting over the hay fields. I figured they would show up again. This is most likely the male, the female is a bit stouter. It is almost for sure the same critter I watched last year, it wasn't the least bit afraid of me.

Sep. 25th, 2007 -- Attention all thrill seekers, extreme sports enthusiasts and coaster aficionados -- Six Flags Over Texas, The Entertainment Capital of Texas, is proud to announce plans to welcome another addition to its already amazing roster of thrills – Tony Hawk’s Big Spin! Tony Hawk’s Big Spin, making its debut on opening day of Six Flags Over Texas’ 47th season, will give riders the sensation of freestyle skateboarding as they sit facing one another in 4-person cars all decked out in skateboard motif! Riders will grab some serious airtime as they twist and turn in 360° rotations while...

July 14, 2007 -- The Upper East Side's beloved hawk, Pale Male, was the target of a cruel attack yesterday when a construction worker pummeled him with rocks - and now bird lovers are fearing for Pale Male's life. The famous fowl was struck and likely wounded with at least one thrown object in an incident that one steamed cop called "a crime against nature." Witnesses said the bird was perched on a piece of masonry on an upper floor of 1040 Fifth Avenue at E. 85th St. at 3 p.m. when the worker, standing on the roof above, started...

An injured hawk owes its life to a man in Connecticut. Nick Skoloski spotted this injured red tailed hawk on the side of a busy road on Friday. He pulled over to help the grounded bird, running across the highway and stopping traffic to do it! Doctors at the Suffield Veterinarian Hospital said they would do what they could to mend the bird's wing and get it back into the air as soon as possible

Cash-strapped Communists hawk treasures By Kim Willsher in Paris, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:56am BST 10/06/2007 It was once France's biggest political party, feared by the bourgeoisie and the CIA alike as a red menace with the power to spark another revolution. The party is considering selling Mona Lisa with Moustache Nicolas Sarkozy's sweeping victory in last month's presidential election, however, and the prospect of another landslide for his party in the parliamentary elections - with the first round today - have spelled disaster for the French Communist Party. So bad were the presidential election results that the "people's" party...

Desert Hawk Takes Command of Aviation Ops By Sgt. 1st Class Krishna M. Gamble Task Force Pegasus Public Affairs Office FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan, Feb. 21, 2007 -- Soldiers from the active, Reserve and National Guard components of the Army formed one of the largest attack aviation task forces to operate in Afghanistan, Feb. 17. Task Force Talon passed its mission of providing air-assault, attack, convoy, troop and supply and movement along with a myriad of other aviation operations to Task Force Desert Hawk, headed by the 1st Battalion, 285th Aviation Regiment of the Arizona National Guard, in...

Black Hawk makes "hard landing" in Iraq-US military 21 Feb 2007 13:31:43 GMT Source: Reuters (Adds police captain saying helicopter hit by projectile) BAGHDAD, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter with nine people on board made a "hard landing" north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, citing initial reports. It was unclear why the helicopter made such a landing, but Iraqi police captain Mahmoud al-Mashhadani said he saw some type of projectile hitting the aircraft before it came down on Wednesday in a rural area known as the Line, 30 kilometres north of Baghdad....

Hawks knock surge plan's command structure Buried in the Bush escalation plan is a who's-in-charge nightmare that violates U.S. military doctrine. Now even John McCain and Frederick Kagan are balking. By Mark Benjamin Jan. 29, 2007 | As the Senate nears an unprecedented debate on President Bush's escalation of the Iraq war, almost all the public criticism has been aimed at the inadequate size of the new forces being sent to Baghdad (21,500 troops) and the extreme difficulty of reversing the course of the civil war. But last week, little noticed by the press and public, the Bush plan began...

Kid fights off hawk to save dog By Norman Miller/ Metrowest Daily News Sunday, December 10, 2006 Call it a case of suburbia red in tooth and claw. Young Chris Campo had to fight a wild beast for his puppy’s life on Friday when a red-tailed hawk tried to turn the Weston youngster’s Dachshund into dinner. But a well-placed kick by the courageous Campo to the hawk’s head freed 5-month-old Dimi, who quickly high-tailed it to safety. “I took the dog out to go to the bathroom and he started to run around like he was kind of scared,” said...

I left the house Monday afternoon, heading to the store. The Red Shouldered Hawk left the roof, and landed in one of the pines in the front yard. It chose the wrong tree. The squirrel came in so fast I wasn't sure what was happening, actually managed to pull some feathers, and was turning around to go after more when the hawk took off. Yeah, I never go anywhere without a camera!

Indian Navy eyes 100 aircraft by 2020 IANS Tuesday, July 18, 2006 08:08 IST NEW DELHI:After the Indian Air Force (IAF), the Indian Navy is looking at acquiring close to 100 aircraft in a mix of fighters, patrol planes and trainers by 2020. On the shopping list are 40 to 50 MiG-29K fighters, 30 long-range maritime patrol (LRMP) aircraft and 10-15 Hawk advanced jet trainers (AJTs), navy chief Admiral Arun Praksh told India Strategic magazine in an interview. According to him, as the IAF was acquiring the Hawk trainers, it was logical for the navy to go in for either...

5/15/2006 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Battlefield awareness has reached new levels with Global Hawk production-model aircraft flying in the U.S. Central Command Air Forces theater. Reaching a breakthrough point in April, the Global Hawk team has maximized the aircraft’s sorties, collecting more than 96 percent of the target area -- nearly 5,000 images of enemy locations, resources and personnel. The Global Hawk, surveying large geographic areas with pinpoint accuracy and giving military commanders near real-time information, has proven its worth in recent operations, said Capt. Ty Gilbert, senior intelligence duty officer at the combined air operations center, or CAOC,...