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  2. Semi-active radar homing - Wikipedia

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    Semi-active radar homing (SARH) is a common type of missile guidance system, perhaps the most common type for longer-range air-to-air and surface-to-air missile systems. The name refers to the fact that the missile itself is only a passive detector of a radar signal—provided by an external ("offboard") source—as it reflects off the target [1] [2] (in contrast to active radar homing, which ...

  3. V-2 rocket - Wikipedia

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    The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range [4] guided ballistic missile.The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German ...

  4. V-weapons - Wikipedia

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    V-1 flying bomb V-2 missile V-3 cannon. V-weapons, known in original German as Vergeltungswaffen (German pronunciation: [fɐˈgɛltʊŋsˌvafṇ], German: "retaliatory weapons", "reprisal weapons"), were a particular set of long-range artillery weapons designed for strategic bombing during World War II, particularly strategic bombing and aerial bombing of cities.

  5. Counter-IED equipment - Wikipedia

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    Duke V3 Counter Radio-controlled Electronic Warfare jamming system Duke Version 3 Vehicle mounted CREW system : Duke V3, [ 4 ] manufactured by SRCTec, Inc., is a counter radio-controlled improvised explosive device (RCIED) electronic warfare (CREW) system that was developed to provide U.S. forces critical, life-saving protection against a wide ...

  6. V-3 cannon - Wikipedia

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    Remains of V-3 in Zalesie near Misdroy, Wolin Island, Poland (2008). The V-3 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 3, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 3') was a German World War II large-caliber gun working on the multi-charge principle whereby secondary propellant charges are fired to add velocity to a projectile.

  7. Multiple homing - Wikipedia

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    Multiple homing may use a single directory number. In telephone systems, the connection of a terminal facility to more than one switching center by separate access lines. Separate directory numbers are applicable to each switching center accessed.

  8. Sonic Robo Blast 2 - Wikipedia

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    Sonic Robo Blast 2 (often abbreviated SRB2) is a platform game made within id Software's Doom engine.It is a free Sonic the Hedgehog fan game inspired by the original Sega Genesis games that "attempts to recreate their design in 3D", [5] and was the first fan-made 3D Sonic game created. [6]

  9. Anti-radiation missile - Wikipedia

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    As jammers proliferated, a number of existing ARMs such as the AGM-88 HARM was modified to also target jammers as the source of radiation. [2] Jammers also led to the addition of a home-on-jam feature to missiles that usually use a different targeting mode (e.g. active radar homing, semi-active radar homing, GPS), allowing them to switch to an anti-radiation targeting mode when radar ...