Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Iron Fist APS. Iron Fist (Hebrew: חץ דורבן, Hetz Dorban, lit. "Porcupine Arrow") is a hard-kill active protection system (APS) designed by Israel Military Industries (IMI), with a modular design allowing adaptation to a range of platforms ranging from light utility vehicles to heavy armoured fighting vehicles.
The reforms also led to many of the ADF's logistics units being disbanded or reduced in size. [127] Since this time private firms have increasingly been contracted to provide critical support to ADF units deployed outside Australia. This support has included transporting equipment and personnel and constructing and supplying bases. [128]
The following tables show the "equivalent rank and classifications" for the three services, as defined in the ADF Pay and Conditions Manual. [1] " Equivalent rank" means the corresponding rank set out under Regulation 8 of the Defence Force Regulations 1952 .
Name of unit Symbol Definition Relation to SI units barrel of oil equivalent: boe ≈ 5.8 × 10 6 BTU 59 °F: ≈ 6.12 × 10 9 J: British thermal unit (ISO) BTU ISO: ≡ 1.0545 × 10 3 J = 1.0545 × 10 3 J: British thermal unit (International Table) BTU IT = 1.055 055 852 62 × 10 3 J: British thermal unit (mean) BTU mean: ≈ 1.055 87 × 10 3 ...
A system of units of measurement, also known as a system of units or system of measurement, is a collection of units of measurement and rules relating them to each other. Systems of measurement have historically been important, regulated and defined for the purposes of science and commerce .
Defence consists of several smaller interrelated military and corporate organisations. The two most significant organisations are the ADF, led by the Chief of the Defence Force who is Australia's senior military leader, and the DoD, managed by the Secretary of the Department of Defence who is a senior public servant accountable under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.
In 1921, the Citizens Force's regimental numbering system, used since federation, was replaced by a divisional structure when the Australian Government decided to continue the unit designations of the AIF and to continue the traditions of the units of World War I. This renumbering brought about the end of localised regiments, with battalions ...
The systems formalised the concept of a collection of related units called a coherent system of units. In a coherent system, base units combine to define derived units without extra factors. [4]: 2 For example, using metre per second is coherent in a system that uses metre for length and second for time, but kilometre per hour is not coherent.