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  2. List of the United States Army fire control and sighting ...

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    F146 Glass field type-E. 6-power, and glass field type-EE, (Navy) F147 Compass, prismatic, M1918, (Keuffel and Esser type) M4 Collimator Sight, used for both indirect fire and direct lay missions. F149 Instrument, Azimuth, M1918, M1918A2, M1 (Mils) F150; F151; F152 Arms scale M1906; F153 Corrector, wind, sound ranging, M1

  3. Keuffel and Esser - Wikipedia

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    The company's showroom and office building at 127 Fulton Street in the Financial District of Manhattan K&E manufacturing complex in Hoboken, New Jersey. The Keuffel and Esser Co., also known as K&E, was an American drafting instrument and supplies company founded in 1867 by German immigrants Wilhelm J. D. Keuffel and Hermann Esser.

  4. JEDMICS - Wikipedia

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    JEDMICS has been designed as an open, client-server architecture which provides the user with the ability to locate and obtain approved engineering drawings (and associated data). The system provides input services via electronic file transfer , quality assurance review of the drawings, selective retrieval of data using a relational database ...

  5. Navigational instrument - Wikipedia

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    These instruments are also used to measure the angular distance between objects: Octant, invented in 1731. The first widely accepted instrument that could measure an angle without being strongly affected by movement. Sextant, derived from the octant in 1757, eventually made all previous instruments used for the same purpose obsolete.

  6. List of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog ...

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    Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.

  7. AN/FPS-16 Instrumentation Radar - Wikipedia

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    The MPS-39 is a transportable instrument using space-fed-phased-array technology; the TPQ-18, a transportable version of the FPQ-6. The indicator AN (originally "ArmyNavy") does not necessarily mean that the Army, Navy or Air Force use the equipment, but simply that the type nomenclature was assigned according to the military nomenclature ...

  8. Link Trainer - Wikipedia

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    Link Trainer at Freeman Field, Seymour, Indiana. Freeman Field was a US Army Air Force field in World War II. Link and his company had struggled through the Depression years, but after gaining Air Corps interest the business expanded rapidly and during World War II, the AN-T-18 Basic Instrument Trainer, known to tens of thousands of fledgling pilots as the "Blue Box" (although it was painted ...

  9. Parallel rulers - Wikipedia

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    Parallel rule in plastic with aluminum arms lying on a cutting mat. Parallel rulers are a drafting instrument used by navigators to draw parallel lines on charts. The tool consists of two straight edges joined by two arms which allow them to move closer or further away while always remaining parallel to each other.