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  • ...gned ''Stiffkey Sight'', being operated by the aimer standing to the right of the loader (turned sideways). It operates the trapeze seen above the sights ...raft systems during [[World War II]], used by most of the western [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] as well as various other forces. It is often referred
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  • |origin= {{flag|Japan}} |used_by= Japan
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  • |design_date= 1918<ref>[http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/m2-50cal.htm M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun<!-- Bot generated ti ...lklands War]] <br>[[South African Border War]]<br>[[United States invasion of Panama]] <br>[[Gulf War]] <br>[[Somali Civil War]] <br>[[Operation Medak Po
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  • ...s derivatives have been the principal cannon armament of [[United States]] military [[fixed-wing aircraft]] for fifty years. The M61 was originally produced by ...concerns. The Army wanted something better, combining extremely high rate of fire with exceptional reliability.
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  • ...ed by an off-gun digital control system. A few years later a third version of the system was being produced, the '''GDF-003''', which was broadly similar ...IAK85) gun system. Note the muzzle velocity measuring device on the muzzle of each gun]]
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  • ...ocket]]ry and in [[Auto racing|motor racing]] to increase the power output of [[Piston engine|engines]]. At elevated temperatures, nitrous oxide is a pow ...Forcing"] which contains information on [[global warming potential]] (GWP) of greenhouse gases.</ref>
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  • ...fined and separated, most easily by [[boiling point]], into a large number of consumer products, from [[petrol]] and [[kerosene]] to [[asphalt]] and chem ...aries depending on the subsurface conditions, and on the [[phase diagram]] of the petroleum mixture.<ref name="Hyne 2001">Hyne (2001), pp. 1–4.</ref>
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  • ...ss (materials science)|hardness]], [[ductility]], and [[tensile strength]] of the resulting steel. Steel with increased carbon content can be made harder ...which can contain a small amount of carbon, but it is included in the form of [[slag]] [[inclusion (casting)|inclusion]]s. Two distinguishing factors are
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  • ...pplied in the context of campaigns that inform the public as to the safety of [[air travel]]. ...eronautics Branch of the [[United States Department of Commerce|Department of Commerce]].
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  • ...he institutions for [[civil defense]] or within the conventional structure of the [[emergency service]]s. However, emergency management actually starts a ...anagement context. This focuses on the mitigation and preparedness aspects of the emergency cycle (see below).
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  • {{Redirect|Crime syndicate|the DC Comics group of villains|Crime Syndicate}} ...lo_pub/xcomplete.htm</ref> Such crime is commonly referred to as the work of the ''Mob'' in the U.S.
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  • ...Executive Officer of [[AFG Biosolutions Inc.]] (USA) and President and CEO of [[MaxWell Biocorporation, LLC]] (USA)<ref>www.max-well.com</ref>. ...kov in [[Kauchuk]], in the [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic|Kazakh SSR]] of the [[Soviet Union]] (in present day [[Kazakhstan]]) and grew up in [[Almat
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  • | location = [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px]] [[Cedar Rapids, Iowa]], [[United States|USA]] ...ment to establish a communications link with the [[South Pole]] expedition of [[Rear admiral|Rear Admiral]] [[Richard Evelyn Byrd|Richard Byrd]] in 1933.
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  • [[Image:5tubes-radio.jpg|thumb|A 5-tube superheterodyne receiver made in Japan around 1955]] ...niently processed than the original radio carrier frequency. Virtually all modern [[radio]] and [[television]] receivers use the superheterodyne principle.
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