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AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radar. Hughes AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder weapon locating system is a mobile radar system developed in the mid-late 1970s by Hughes Aircraft Company and manufactured by Northrop Grumman and ThalesRaytheonSystems, achieving initial operational capability in May 1982.
Definitions of the "Lowcountry" area always include the counties in dark red, less often those in lighter shades. The term "Low Country" originally referred to all of the states below the Fall Line, or the Sandhills, which run the width of the states from Aiken County to Chesterfield County. The Sandhills, or Carolina Sandhills, is a 15–60 km ...
The Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) is a single material solution for the mobile Multi-Role Radar System and Ground Weapons Locating Radar (GWLR) requirements. It is a three-dimensional, short/medium-range multi-role radar designed to detect unmanned aerial systems, cruise missiles, air-breathing targets, rockets, artillery, and mortars.
Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) is a digital library project hosted by the College of Charleston in the U.S. state of South Carolina.Part of the Digital Library of America network, the Lowcountry Digital Library hosts about 200 collections of primary sources [1] drawn from organizations including the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston Library Society, Avery Research Center for ...
Radar, Field Artillery, No 15, better known as Cymbeline, was a widely used British mortar locating radar [1] operating in the I band using a Foster scanner. Developed by Thorn-EMI and built at their now-defunct site at Hayes in Middlesex, it was in British service from 1975 until about 2003 with the Royal Artillery.
Underground Service Alert (USA) is a non-profit mutual benefit organization that links the excavation community and the owners of underground lines. Underground Service Alert has two separate call centers for California : Underground Service Alert of Northern California (USA North) and Underground Service Alert of Southern California (USA South ...
Estimation-based locating is often measured in accuracy for a given distance, such as 90% accurate for 10-meter range. Some systems use locating technologies that can't pass through walls, such as infrared or ultrasound. These require line of sight (or near line of sight) to communicate properly.
An emergency locator beacon is a radio beacon, a portable battery powered radio transmitter, used to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress and in need of immediate rescue. Various types of emergency locator beacons are carried by aircraft, ships, vehicles, hikers and cross-country skiers.