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The 9K38 Igla (Russian: Игла́, "needle", NATO reporting name SA-18 Grouse) is a Soviet/Russian man-portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. A simplified, earlier version is known as the 9K310 Igla-1 (NATO: SA-16 Gimlet), and the latest variant is the 9K338 Igla-S (SA-24 Grinch).
VSG left ILGA in April 1995 and in 1998 dissolved itself. ILGA applied to have its consultative status reinstated in 2000, [4] but on 30 April 2002 the United Nations' Economic & Social Council voted 29–17 not to grant this application, [5] "based on concerns raised about its member organizations or subsidiaries that promoted or condoned ...
In March 2021, the Illinois General Assembly passed an amendment to Scott's Law, which would allow judges to issue a term of community service work with the fine and clarified language about drivers' responsibilities when entering an emergency zone. [15] [16] [17] The amendment was signed into law by Governor J. B. Pritzker on August 12, 2021 ...
They are a safety measure intended to ensure that in the event of a single engine failure, an aircraft will still be able to reach a diversion airport using the remaining operational engine. This may be at a reduced speed and/or height, and usually applies to flights over water or remote lands, typically routes previously restricted to three ...
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Traffic engineers refer to three "E's" when discussing traffic calming: engineering, (community) education, and (police) enforcement.Because neighborhood traffic management studies have shown that residents often contribute to the perceived speeding problem within their neighborhoods, instructions on traffic calming (for example in Hass-Klau et al., 1992 [4]) stress that the most effective ...
A diagram of the flat scissors. A flat scissors maneuver typically results when two fighters of similar capability encounter each other at similar speeds and in the same plane of motion, and the attacking fighter has failed to press an initial positional and angular advantage into a kill, and has "overshot", or passed behind the defender.
Low-speed pre-ignition (LSPI), also known as stochastic pre-ignition (SPI), [1] is a pre-ignition event that occurs in gasoline vehicle engines when there is a premature ignition of the main fuel charge. [2] LSPI is most common in certain turbocharged direct-injection vehicles operating in low-speed and high-load driving conditions. [3]