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German submarine U-2545 was a Type XXI U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. The Elektroboote submarine was laid down on 20 November 1944 at the Blohm & Voss yard at Hamburg , launched on 22 February 1945, and commissioned on 8 April 1945 under the command of Korvettenkapitän Otto von Bülow .
IR and semi-active radar homing (SARH) versions both entered service in 1956, and became known as the AIM-4 Falcon after 1962. The Falcon was a complex system offering limited performance, especially due to its lack of a proximity fuse, and managed only a 9% kill ratio in 54 firings during Operation Rolling Thunder in the Vietnam War . [ 22 ]
The APKWS II system is composed of the launch platform, rockets equipped with the WGU-59/B mid-body guidance unit, the lengthened 7-tube LAU-68 F/A rocket launcher, the SCS 7 aiming cue (not needed for attack helicopters), and Fastpack PA-140 and CNU-711/E storage kits for rockets and guidance kits, respectively, to ensure they are safe in the ...
The IRIS-T belongs to 5th generation IR-guided missiles which introduce infrared imaging seeker. [37] Compared to the other 5th generation IR-guided missiles, such as AIM-9X, ASRAAM which use staring array , [ 38 ] the IRIS-T uses an InSb [ 39 ] two-colour seeker based around a 128x2 linear array and a scanning mirror which builds an image from ...
IR$ is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Stephen Desberg, illustrated by Bernard Vrancken and published by Le Lombard in French and Cinebook in English. Story [ edit ]
IR-40 also known as Arak Nuclear Complex [1] is an Iranian 40 megawatt (thermal) heavy water reactor near Arak, adjacent to the 1990s era Arak Heavy Water Production Plant. [2] Civil works for the construction began in October 2004. [ 3 ]
It is published by Wiley-VCH and contains reviews and original papers/letters. The journal was established in 2007 by the founding editor-in-chief Theodor W. Hänsch (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). Originally, the journal only published review articles. Since 2012, it also contains original papers and letters.
The UK paperback was released by Vintage on 5 March 2015 while the US paperback, retitled The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm, was published on 10 March 2015 by Penguin Books. The book is written as a quick-start guide to restarting civilization following a global catastrophe.