Pinochle Irish immigrants, while skat was the preferred game of a majority of German immigrants. A pinochle deck consists of two copies of each of the 9, 10, jack, queen, king, and ace cards of all four suits, for 48 cards per deck. Aces are always considered high. Pinochle follows a nonstandard card ordering. The complete ordering from highest to lowest is A, 10, K, Q, J, 9. The game can also be played using standard ranking with a simple change to scoring. Originally, the deck had to be composed by combining two poker, piquet or euchre decks and removing unneeded
Mikoyan Skat works on the Mikoyan Skat UCAV are currently underway. Mikoyan Skat The Mikoyan Skat (from Russian 'Скат' – "manta ray") is a concept of a strike unmanned combat aerial vehicle developed by the Mikoyan for the Russian Defense Ministry. It is being also developed into the 20-ton Okhotnik-B stealth strike UCAV by the Sukhoi. SKAT is a low-observable, subsonic craft meant to carry weapons in two ventral weapons bays large enough for missiles such as the Kh-31, powered by a single Klimov RD-5000B turbofan engine, a variant of the RD-93. Possible roles include the suppression and attack of enemy air