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The Apache are an Athabaskan people comprising several American Indian tribes that live in south-west USA. The seven tribes appear to have formerly been a single tribe that divided over the years and settled in separate parts of the south-west of the USA, mainly in Arizona and Texas where they resisted settlement by the Spanish, but were themselves reduced in numbers by invading Comanche peoples.
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The Comanche are an American Indian tribe. Originally a roving tribe, they were early engaged in disastrous wars with the Spanish. They were always dangerous and troublesome to the colonists. They were at one time on a Texas reservation, but on being expelled became bitter enemies of the State. The Government later collected a portion on lands in the western part of Indian Territory. A part of these, the Quanhado, refused to settle down until defeated by Colonel McKenzie at McClellan's Creek in 1872.
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The Llama Comanche is a Spanish double-action service and sporting revolver. The
Llama Comanche is chambered for the .357 Magnum cartridge and has a 6-chamber cylinder and a choice of 4-inch or 6-inch barrels. The Llama Comanche has an adjustable micrometer rear sight.
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The Piper PA-24 Comanche is an American four-seater short-range utility light transport aircraft with liaison capability which entered service in 1957. The
Piper PA-24 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane produced in various models, the Piper PA-24-260 Comanche C is powered by a Textron Lycoming IO-540 flat-six piston engine providing a top speed of 314 kmh and a range of 1287 km. The
Piper PA-24 carries a pilot and up to three passengers or freight in the cabin.
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The Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche is a series of American four/six-seater twin-engined light aircraft first flown in 1962. The Piper PA-30 is a low-wing cantilever monoplane of aluminium construction powered by two Lycoming IO-320-B four-cylinder horizontally-opposed air-cooled engine providing a top speed of 330 kmh and a range of 1650 km increasing to 2190 km when fitted with wingtip tanks. A turbo model, the Turbo Twin Comanche was also produced powered by two Lycoming IO-320-C1A engines with Rajay turbo superchargers providing a top speed of 386 kmh and a range of 1755 km.
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The Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche is an American reconnaissance and attack helicopter. The first flight of the Comanche took place on the 4th of January 1996. The Comanche is designed for armed reconnaissance missions, and can locate and classify threats, recognise and identify targets and digitally transmit the information to the battlefield commander in near real-time, select the optimum force deployment and co-ordinate the attack. The Comanche is equipped with a stowable three-barrel 20 millimetre Gatling gun mounted on a Giat turret under the nose of the helicopter. The Comanche carries its missile weapons internally and has a weapons bay on each side of the fuselage. The missiles are mounted on the weapon bay doors which open sideways. The missiles fire within three seconds of the bay doors opening. Missiles which fit the internal weapon bay include the Sura D 81 mm rocket, Euromissile Hot II, AIM-92 Stinger, Oerlikon Snora 81 mm Rocket, Starstreak, TOW II, Hydra 70 rocket, Matra Bae Dynamics Mistral, the Army Counter Air Weapon System, and the Longbow Hellfire missile. The number of missiles on each door mounting varies according to the size of the missile system, for example each door will hold three Hellfire or six Stinger missiles. The helicopter can be reconfigured with optional stub wings fitted with multiple weapon pylons which carry an additional four Hellfire or eight Stinger missiles.
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Comanche is a western starring Dana Andrews, Kent Smith and Nestor Paiva in a story about a frontier scout trying to negotiate peace between the warring US cavalry and Comanche Indians. Comanche was directed by George Sherman in 1956.
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Comanche Station is a western starring Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Atkins, Skip Homeier and Richard Rust in a story about a man who, after rescuing a settler's wife from Comanche Indians, encounters outlaws who plan to kill him and collect the reward for the woman's return. Comanche Station was directed by Budd Boetticher in 1960.
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Avilla is a town in Noble County, Indiana, USA.
Avilla is a township in Comanche County, Kansas, USA.
Avilla is a town in Jasper County, Missouri, USA.
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The Cache is a river in Arkansas. It rises in the north-east and flows 370 km south-east to join the White River at Clarendon in Monroe County.
Cache is a town in Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA.
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