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Remote starter. A remote starter is a radio controlled device, which is installed in a vehicle by the factory or an aftermarket installer to preheat or cool the vehicle before the owner gets into it. [1] Once activated, by pushing a button on a special key chain remote, it starts the vehicle automatically for a predetermined time.
TPY-2 radar in travelling configuration View from the back on a deployed TPY-2 radar. The AN/TPY-2 Surveillance Transportable Radar, also called the Forward Based X-Band Transportable (FBX-T) is a long-range, very high-altitude active digital antenna array [1] [2] X band surveillance radar designed to add a tier to existing missile and air defence systems.
Model XAE IFF kit, the first radio recognition IFF system in the U.S. Identification, friend or foe (IFF) is a combat identification system designed for command and control. It uses a transponder that listens for an interrogation signal and then sends a response that identifies the broadcaster. IFF systems usually use radar frequencies, but ...
The Mark 38 25 mm machine gun system (MGS) is a shipboard weapon system designed to protect warships primarily from a variety of surface threats, especially small, fast surface craft. [1] It consists of an M242 Bushmaster chain gun mounted on a turret that can be either manually or remote controlled , depending on variant.
Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found herself plunked down in an ...
[2] [3] The system consists of a transmitter and two different types of receivers, one to initiate blasting caps and one to initiate C4 directly. [4] RAMS was designed to serve as a more portable and convenient alternative to conventional remote activation systems like the model XM-122, which was considered too big, heavy, and fragile for ...
European route E 25 ( E 25) is a north–south European route, running from Hook of Holland in the Netherlands to Palermo in Italy. [2] [3] In the Netherlands, the highway runs from its northern terminus in Hook of Holland south–eastward through Rotterdam, Utrecht, 's-Hertogenbosch, Eindhoven and Maastricht to the Belgian border, near Eijsden.
Track-while-scan (TWS) is a mode of radar operation in which the radar allocates part of its power to tracking a target or targets (up to forty with modern radar) while part of its power is allocated to scanning. [1] It is similar to but functions differently in comparison to its counterparts range-while-search (RWS), long range search (LRS ...