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Tethered Aerostat Radar System in New Mexico. The first aerostats were assigned to the United States Air Force in December 1980 at Cudjoe Key, Florida.During the 1980s, the U.S. Customs Service operated a network of aerostats to help counter illegal drug trafficking.
A Lancaster dropping chaff (the crescent-shaped white cloud on the left of the picture) over Essen during a thousand-bomber raid. The idea of using chaff developed independently in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Japan.
Targeting radars utilize the same principle but scan smaller volumes of space far more often, usually several times a second or more, while a search radar will scan a larger volume less frequently.
A software wizard or setup assistant or multi-step form is a user interface that leads a user through a sequence of small steps, [1] [2] like a dialog box to configure a program for the first time. They are used to make complex, unfamiliar tasks easier by breaking them into smaller pieces.
U.S. Army soldier using a radar gun, an application of Doppler radar, to catch speeding violators.. A Doppler radar is a specialized radar that uses the Doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance. [1]
The first patent for a system designed to use continuous-wave radar to locate buried objects was submitted by Gotthelf Leimbach and Heinrich Löwy in 1910, six years after the first patent for radar itself (patent DE 237 944).
Backup Interceptor Control (BUIC, / ˈ b juː ɪ k / [citation needed]) was the Electronic Systems Division 416M System to backup the SAGE 416L System in the United States and Canada.
The NOSS 3-4 duo (2007-027A and C) crossing through the Pleiades.Movement in this 10-second exposure is from top to bottom, the A object is leading. A NOSS satellite trio passes the Moon.