Electronic countermeasure equipment was fitted to the Land Rover Fusilier Gentle was travelling in and was working correctly but was ineffective against the device.
In addition to the advantage a piloted aircraft can have in taking evasive action against unexpected threats, the Blackbird is equipped with the most advanced counter-measure features yet designed.
The professor began winning so much cash that the pit bosses eventually took to the old-school counter-measure of hastily escorting him from the premises without so much as a thank you.
Actually, and this sounds very counter-intuitive, you can probably measure national economic progress more by the jobs destroyed, than by the jobs created.
And it's this very measure that they were forced to drop from the Counter Terrorism Bill earlier this year after clear signs that MPs and peers would oppose inquests behind closed doors.
By now, you have heard that on Sunday, Jan. 8, Novartis took the extraordinary measure of voluntarily recalling some of its popular over-the-counter medicines and suspending operations at its Lincoln, Neb.