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  2. Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster - Wikipedia

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    The SRB distributors in the SRBs are cross-strapped together. Thus, if one SRB received an arm or destruct signal, the signal would also be sent to the other SRB. Electrical power from the RSS battery in each SRB is routed to RSS system A. The recovery battery in each SRB is used to power RSS system B as well as the recovery system in the SRB.

  3. Force multiplication - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft carriers, such as the USS Gerald R. Ford, can carry more than 75 aircraft with fuel and ammunition for all tasks that an aircraft carrier should need like air to air, air to naval and air to ground missions. When deployed, aircraft carriers are a massive force multiplier that can turn any engagement in favour of those that have the ...

  4. 1951 USAF resolution test chart - Wikipedia

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    A 1951 USAF resolution test chart is a microscopic optical resolution test device originally defined by the U.S. Air Force MIL-STD-150A standard of 1951. The design provides numerous small target shapes exhibiting a stepped assortment of precise spatial frequency specimens.

  5. Force concentration - Wikipedia

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    If force A has say 2 units and force B has 3 units, then the advantage force B has is 3²−2² or 5. If force A still has 2 units and force B has 4 units then the advantage force B has is 4²−2² or 12. If force A still has 2 units and force B has 5 units then the advantage force B has is 5²−2² or 21.

  6. Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron ...

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    An airman with the 820th RED HORSE Squadron ensures a block is level at a high school construction site in Belize, 2014 A RED HORSE airman (left) and a Seabee construct building frames at a primary school as part of a joint military construction team supporting Pacific Partnership 2015 Air Force paratroopers with the 820th Red Horse Squadron, Airborne Flight conduct airborne insertion training ...

  7. Titan IIIC - Wikipedia

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    The Titan IIIC was an expendable launch system used by the United States Air Force from 1965 until 1982. It was the first Titan booster to feature large solid rocket motors and was planned to be used as a launcher for the Dyna-Soar, though the spaceplane was cancelled before it could fly.

  8. Structure of the United States Air Force - Wikipedia

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    The Air Force Reserve Command shall be operated as a separate command of the Air Force. (b) Commander.— The Chief of Air Force Reserve is the Commander of the Air Force Reserve Command. The commander of the Air Force Reserve Command reports directly to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. (c) Assignment of Forces.— The Secretary of the Air ...

  9. Solid-propellant rocket - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known use by the Soviet Air Force of aircraft-launched unguided anti-aircraft rockets in combat against heavier-than-air aircraft took place in August 1939, during the Battle of Khalkhin Gol. [11] In June 1938, the RNII began developing a multiple rocket launcher based on the RS-132 rocket. [12]