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  2. Skyguard - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Skyguard may refer to: Skyguard (area defense system) The ...

  3. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings. [citation needed] (Säteritak in Swedish.) Mansard (French roof): A roof with the pitch divided into a shallow slope above a steeper slope. The steep slope may be curved.

  4. Nissen hut - Wikipedia

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    The semi-cylindrical shape was derived from the drill-shed roof at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario (collapsed 1896). [ 3 ] [ additional citation(s) needed ] Nissen's design was subject to intensive review by his fellow officers, Lieutenant Colonels Shelly, Sewell and McDonald, and General Clive Gerard Liddell [ a ] , which helped Nissen ...

  5. Shed roof - Wikipedia

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    Shed roof attached to a barn. A shed roof, also known variously as a pent roof, lean-to roof, outshot, catslide, skillion roof (in Australia and New Zealand), and, rarely, a mono-pitched roof, [1] is a single-pitched roof surface. This is in contrast to a dual- or multiple-pitched roof.

  6. Skyshield - Wikipedia

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    South Africa currently operates 102 GDF-002 and 48 modified GDF-005 units. In this context, a number of the twin-gun systems will also be retrofitted with upgrade kits to accommodate Rheinmetall's state-of-the-art AHEAD anti-missile programmable ammunition including logistics and training services. The complete package was scheduled for ...

  7. Oerlikon GDF - Wikipedia

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    An Oerlikon Contraves Skyguard Radar of the Austrian Air Force Four-tube Aspide/Sparrow missile launcher closeup Skyguard System Set Display in Chengkungling, Taiwan The Skyguard is a fire control system introduced in the 1960s to replace the Contraves Super Fledermaus system in the Swiss Air Force .

  8. Hardened aircraft shelter - Wikipedia

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    Hardened aircraft shelter at RAF Bruggen, 1981 The HASs at RAF Upper Heyford in the United Kingdom are protected as scheduled monuments.. A hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) or protective aircraft shelter (PAS) is a reinforced hangar to house and protect military aircraft from enemy attack.

  9. Skyguard (area defense system) - Wikipedia

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    Skyguard is a chemical laser-based area defense system proposed by Northrop Grumman, to protect airports and other areas against a variety of military threats including short-range ballistic missiles, short- and long-range rockets, artillery shells, mortars, unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles. Each shot costs about $1,000 which ...