How Black Hawk Helicopters Work With outstanding speed and maneuverability, the Black Hawk helicopter is used to transport troops and supplies to and from active battlefields.

An Arab League monitoring mission ended in failure as Syrian troops and anti-government militants continued to do battle across the country and the Syrian government prevented foreign observers from touring active battlefields, including besieged opposition strongholds.

The ruins of the castle were further damaged as a result of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) that turned the area into an active battlefield.

We had come down in the very center of what appeared to be an active battlefield!

Detection of mines, both on the active battlefield and in reconstituting nations with unexploded ordnance (UXO) remains a critical problem.

There is nothing in international law that bans the use of remotely piloted aircraft for this purpose or that prohibits us from using lethal force against our enemies outside of an active battlefield, at least when the country involved consents or is unable or unwilling to take action against the threat.

Here he was posted until George Washington granted his request for transfer to the active battlefield of the Southern Army in August 1780, soon after Kościuszko finished his work on fortifying West Point.

During a tournament in Poland in the early 1990's, Nelson sat spellbound as several players told him they had to crawl through an active battlefield in Bosnia-Herzegovina to catch their flight.

Flight nurse Jane "Candy" Kendeigh was among the first flight nurses to fly to and from an active battlefield in the Pacific when, on March 3, 1945, she flew round-trip from Guam to Iwo Jima to aid in the evacuation of wounded U.S. Marines.

Once again, it looked like a very active battlefield.