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Almost all base end stations were equipped at least with an azimuth telescope (similar to a surveyor's theodolite) to enable them to sight accurate bearings to a target.In addition, some base end stations held a depression position finder (DPF) or a coincidence range finder (CRF) that could be used by itself (without reference to another station) to produce fire control data for the gun(s).
A depression position finder measured the range to a distant target (such as a ship) by solving a right triangle in which the short side was the height of the instrument above mean low water; one angle was the constant right angle between the short side and the plane of the ocean, and the second angle was the depression angle from the horizontal of the instrument as it sighted down from a fire ...
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Find and fix the remaining bugs in the underlying lua modules. Build portal tools (scripts) to assist in the creation, development, and maintenance of portals. Build a script to help build navbox footer templates, via the harvesting of categories, amongst other methods. Update the portal building instructions. Update the portal guideline.
Mikaela Shiffrin’s bid to win her 100th World Cup race victory took a hit on Saturday, after the 29-year-old crashed out of the giant slalom during this weekend’s Stifel Killington Cup in Vermont.
It wasn’t long ago that China was by far the largest, and most profitable market, for General Motors. While the company was hemorrhaging money in North America and Europe and hurtling towards ...
TikTok Shop is now a more popular online retailer than Shein and Sephora among Americans. TikTok Shop first launched in September 2023. A new consumer trends report found that 45% of surveyed ...
The Weighted Companion Cube, or simply the Companion Cube, is an item featured in the Portal series of video games by Valve Corporation.Initially featured in a single level of the original Portal, Test Chamber 17, as one of Aperture Science's ubiquitous Weighted Storage Cubes with heart symbols printed on the outside, it is given to the game's main character, Chell, as part of the antagonist ...