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Torchy, the Battery Boy, was created by Mr Bumbledrop, a lonely old toymaker who spends the majority of his days tending to his garden, where the neighbourhood children play. Torchy has a lamp on his head, and when he pushes a button on his jacket and utters a mysterious phrase, the light illuminates and gives Torchy magical insights.
A rechargeable battery, storage battery, or secondary cell (formally a type of energy accumulator), is a type of electrical battery which can be charged, discharged into a load, and recharged many times, as opposed to a disposable or primary battery, which is supplied fully charged and discarded after use.
As a system, Nebo-M is a complex which features different radars. From the beginning, Nebo-M represented a modification and modernization of older VHF band Nebo SVU, L-band Protivnik G, and S/X-band Gamma S1 radars on mobile chassis. The designations of the newer variants are RLM-S, RLM-D, RLM-M, and the command post KU-RLK.
The K2 uses a modular armor system in order to replace the inner material much quicker when it is damaged or whenever an enhanced version is available. [ 11 ] [ 55 ] Its armor was redesigned based on K1A1's KSAP, and is made of POSCO MIL-12560H armor steel, [ 37 ] [ 59 ] [ 60 ] Samyang Comtech silicon carbide (SiC) ceramic plates, and aluminum ...
The AEK-971 (Russian: Автомат единый Кокшарова 971, "Automatic (rifle), Universal, (of) Koksharov, 971) is a selective fire 5.45×39mm assault rifle that was developed at the Kovrov Mechanical Plant (KMZ) by chief designer Stanislav Ivanovich Koksharov (Cyrilic: Станислав Иванович Кокшаров), also known as Sergey Koksharov, in the late 1970s and ...
Innovations include the first Soviet air surveillance radar with a circular scan: the P-8 Volga (NATO: KNIFE REST A) in 1950, the first 3D radar: the 5N69 Salute (NATO: BIG BACK) in 1975, and in 1982 the first VHF-band 3D-radar: the 55Zh6 Nebo (NATO: TALL RACK).
BMP-2K (K stands for komandirskaya – command) – Command variant fitted with two whip antennas mounted on the rear of the hull, one behind the turret and one on the right-hand side of the rear of the vehicle, one IFF antenna (pin stick) on the left-hand side of the rear of the vehicle and a support for a telescopic mast in the front of the ...
The Nebra sky disc, c. 1800–1600 BC. The Nebra sky disc (German: Himmelsscheibe von Nebra, pronounced [ˈhɪml̩sˌʃaɪbə fɔn ˈneːbra]) is a bronze disc of around 30 cm (12 in) diameter and a weight of 2.2 kg (4.9 lb), having a blue-green patina and inlaid with gold symbols.