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  2. Historical Russian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Swung sazhen' (маховая сажень, makhovaya sazhen', distance between tips of arms stretched sidewards) = 1.76 m Skewed, or oblique sazhen' ( косая сажень , kosaya sazhen' , distance between tip of a raised arm and a tip of an opposite leg slightly put away) = 2.48 m / 2.4892 m to be exact, since 1 Kosaya Sazhen is equal to ...

  3. Voronezh radar - Wikipedia

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    Russia claims the radar can detect targets the size of a "football ball" at a distance of 8000 km. [2] Voronezh-VP (77Ya6-VP) works in the meter range and was designed by RTI Mints. The only one built has 6 segments instead of the 3 of the Voronezh-M. [9] A Voronezh-M is claimed to cost 2.85 billion rubles and a Voronezh-DM 4.3 billion rubles. [10]

  4. Verst - Wikipedia

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    In Finland, a virsta was 1,068.84 m according to the Swedish standard, defined in 1827 as 110 of a peninkulma, the Finnish language name for the pre-metric Swedish mil, used in Finland since the early 17th century (see Obsolete Finnish units of measurement), or 600 syli (Swedish fathoms, 1.781 m).

  5. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    The decimetre (SI symbol: dm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 101 metres (⁠ 1 / 10m = 0.1 m). To help compare different orders of magnitude , this section lists lengths between 10 centimeters and 100 centimeters (101 meter and 1 meter).

  6. US Army conducts training exercise on Alaskan island less ...

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    Shemya Island, located 1,200 miles west of Anchorage and less than 300 miles from the Russian coast, is home the Eareckson Air Station, an early-warning radar installation that can track ballistic ...

  7. History of the metric system - Wikipedia

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    The are (100 m 2) for area [of land] The stère (1 m 3) for volume of firewood; The litre (1 dm 3) for volumes of liquid; The gramme, for mass—defined as the mass of one cubic centimetre of water; The franc, for currency. Historical note: only the metre and (kilo)gramme defined here went on to become part of later metric systems.

  8. Just How Dumb Are Russia's Winged Smart Bombs? - AOL

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    The new weapons are Russia's response to setbacks in Ukraine ... and that the total will eventually increase to 40. He also claims the VKS will eventually outfit huge 3,000- and 5,000-kilo bombs ...

  9. Ukraine is striking targets hundreds of miles inside Russia ...

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    In late July, Ukraine said it had struck a Russian Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber at Olenya airbase in Murmansk, a record-breaking 1,100 miles inside Russian territory.