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  2. Sentry Group - Wikipedia

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    The factory side entrance of the Linden Avenue plant in Rochester, NY. At the base of the silos are a furnace (used to fire-test safes) and a rock pit (used for drop-testing safes from a height of 30 ft.) Brush & Co. moved into a new plant at 900 Linden Avenue in Rochester in 1968, with over 50,000 sq ft (5,000 m 2). In 1987, it began doing ...

  3. List of military electronics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    This article lists American military electronic instruments/systems along with brief descriptions. This list specifically identifies electronic devices which are assigned designations according to the Joint Electronics Type Designation System, beginning with the AN/ prefix.

  4. Fire control technician - Wikipedia

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    Fire control technician (abbreviated as FT) is a United States Navy occupational rating. Fire control technicians perform organizational and intermediate level maintenance on United States Navy submarines combat control systems and equipment, and associated test equipment including tactical computer systems and peripherals.

  5. Remote controlled weapon station - Wikipedia

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    A Kongsberg/Thales Protector M151 with an M2 heavy machine gun on a M1126 Stryker The operator screen of a RWS installed on U.S. Army Stryker A heavy FLW 200 made by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann for the German Army A light remote weapon system made by OTO Melara Iberica A Sea Rogue fitted with a 12.7 mm machine gun mounted on a Valour class frigate of the South African Navy

  6. SGR-A1 - Wikipedia

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    The SGR-A1 is a type of autonomous sentry gun that was jointly developed by Samsung Techwin (now Hanwha Aerospace) and Korea University to assist South Korean troops in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. It is widely considered as the first unit of its kind to have an integrated system that includes surveillance, tracking, firing, and voice ...

  7. Phalanx CIWS - Wikipedia

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    Phalanx CIWS and Bofors 40mm L70 Gun aboard ROCN Di Hua (PFG-1206) Phalanx LPWS conducts a test fire system at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan on March 1, 2014. Phalanx LPWS during the battalion's live fire exercise on Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Map with Phalanx CIWS users in blue and former users in red

  8. Universal testing machine - Wikipedia

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    Typical lectromechanical Universal Testing Machine Test fixture for three point flex test. A universal testing machine (UTM), also known as a universal tester, [1] universal tensile machine, materials testing machine, materials test frame, is used to test the tensile strength (pulling) and compressive strength (pushing), flexural strength, bending, shear, hardness, and torsion testing ...

  9. Sentry gun - Wikipedia

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    Phalanx automated turret, mounted on USS Denver. A sentry gun is a weapon that is automatically aimed and fired at targets that are detected by sensors. The earliest functioning military sentry guns were the close-in weapon systems point-defense weapons, such as the Phalanx CIWS, used for detecting and destroying short range incoming missiles and enemy aircraft, first used exclusively on naval ...