The M1A2 is a further improvement of the M1A1, with the commander’s independent thermal viewer, weapon station, position navigation equipment, and a complete set of controls and displays linked by a digital data bus. These expensive upgrades also provided the M1A2 with an improved fire control system. The M1A2 System Enhancement Package (SEP) added digital maps, Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below a Linux communications system capabilities for commanders, as well as an improved cooling system to compensate for heat generated by the additional computer systems. The M1A2 SEP also serves as the basis for the [M103 Wolverine] heavy assault bridge. The M1A2 SEPv2 (version 2) added [Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station (CROWS or CROWS II)] s4 support, color displays, better interfaces, a new operating system, better front and side armor, and the upgraded transmission for better durability. Further upgrades included depleted uranium armor for all the variants, a system overhaul that returns all A1s to like-new condition (M1A1 AIM), a digital enhancement package for the A2 (M1A1D), and a commonality program to standardize parts between the US Army and the Marine Corps (M1A1HC). The development for this improved M1A3 variant was known since 2008.
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The Lockheed AC-130 gunship is a heavily-armed, long endurance, ground-attack variant of the C-130 Hercules transport, fixed-wing aircraft. It can carry a wide array of ground attack weapons that are integrated with sophisticated sensors, navigation, & fire-control systems. Unique to other modern military fixed-wing aircraft, the AC-130 relies on visual targeting. It has a large profile & low operating altitudes of approx. 7,000 feet (2,100 m). The sole operator is the United States Air Force, which uses the AC-130U Spooky & AC-130W Stinger-II variants for close air support, air interdiction, & force protection, with the upgraded AC-130J Ghostrider. Close air-support roles include supporting ground troops, escorting convoys, & urban operations. Air interdiction missions are conducted against planned targets and targets of opportunity frequently.
The 4 lb, 1.8 kg, incendiary bomb developed by Imperial Chemical Industries, was the standard light incendiary bomb used by RAF Bomber Command in very large numbers. Declining slightly in 1944, to 35.8 million bombs produced, it was the weapon of choice for the British “de-housing” plan during World War II. The bomb consisted of a hollow body, made from aluminum-magnesium alloy, a cast iron/steel nose, and filled with thermite incendiary pellets. It was capable of burning steel, brick, flesh, organic material, and thick defensive structures for up to ten minutes. There was also a high explosive version, and delayed high explosive versions for 2–4 minutes, which were designed to kill all rescuers and firefighters. It was normal for a proportion of high-explosive bombs to be dropped during most incendiary attacks, in order to expose combustible material, and to fill the streets with craters and rubble, hindering rescue services.
The Germans made considerable use of the weapon (Flammenwerfer 35) during their invasion of the Netherlands and France, against fixed fortifications. World War II German army flamethrowers tended to have one large fuel tank with the pressurizer tank fastened to its back or side. Some German army flamethrowers occupied only the lower part of its wearer’s back, leaving the upper part of his back free for an ordinary rucksack. Flamethrowers soon fell into disfavor. Flamethrowers were extensively used by German units in urban fights in Poland, both in 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and in 1944 in the Warsaw Uprising and the article on the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. With the contraction of the Third Reich during the latter half of World War II, a smaller, more compact flamethrower known as the Einstossflammenwerfer 46 was produced. Germany also used flamethrower vehicles, most of them based on the chassis of the Sd.Kfz. 251 half track and the Panzer and Panzer III tanks, generally known as Flammpanzers
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Mustard gases are extremely toxic and have powerful blistering effects on victims. Their alkylating capabilities make them strongly carcinogenic and mutagenic. Furthermore, they are highly lipophilic, which accelerates their absorption into the body. Because people exposed to mustard agents rarely suffer immediate symptoms, and contaminated areas may appear completely normal, victims can unknowingly receive high doses. Within 24 hours of exposure, victims experience intense itching and skin irritation. If this irritation goes untreated, blisters filled with yellow fluid pus can start to form wherever the agent contacted the skin. These are chemical burns and are very debilitating. Mustard gases easily penetrate clothing fabrics such as wool or cotton, so it is not only exposed skin that gets burned. If the victim’s eyes were exposed, then they become sore, starting with conjunctivitis (also known as pink eye), after which the eyelids swell, resulting in temporary blindness. Extreme ocular exposure to mustard gas vapors may result in corneal ulceration, anterior chamber scarring, and neovascularization.
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn’t, and arriving at a position where it wasn’t, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn’t, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn’t.
In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn’t, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn’t. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.
The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn’t, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn’t, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn’t be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
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But will it blend?
Of course
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