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  2. Counter-IED efforts - Wikipedia

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    C-IED treats the IED as a systemic problem and aims to defeat the IED threat networks themselves. This IED threat network requires multiple actions and resources in order to stage an IED Event. The IED threat network may be either hierarchical or non-hierarchical but it will contain nodes such as personnel, resources and other actions that are ...

  3. Counter-IED equipment - Wikipedia

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    IED Countermeasure Equipment (ICE): In the fall of 2004, the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and New Mexico State University's Physical Science Laboratory developed a jamming system that uses low-power radio frequency energy to block the radio signals that detonate enemy IEDs.

  4. Improvised explosive device - Wikipedia

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    An IED has five components: a switch (activator), an initiator (fuse), container (body), charge (explosive), and a power source (battery). An IED designed for use against armoured targets such as personnel carriers or tanks will be designed for armour penetration, by using a shaped charge that creates an explosively formed penetrator. IEDs are ...

  5. File:Interrupter gear diagram en.png - Wikipedia

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  6. Electronic flight instrument system - Wikipedia

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    EFIS on an Airbus A380 EFIS on an Eclipse 500 Garmin G1000 on a Diamond DA42 Primary flight display of a Boeing 747-400. In aviation, an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) is a flight instrument display system in an aircraft cockpit that displays flight data electronically rather than electromechanically.

  7. Synchronization gear - Wikipedia

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    A diagram from the maintenance manual for installation of Sopwith-Kauper synchronization (Mk.III) gear in early production Sopwith Camels (1917) The first mechanical synchronization gears fitted to early Sopwith fighters were so unsatisfactory that in mid 1916 Sopwiths had an improved gear designed by their foreman of works Harry Kauper , a ...

  8. Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Organization - Wikipedia

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    JIDO was born from the Joint IED Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) established in 2006, which focused on IEDs. [3] JIDO's mission is to "enable Department of Defense actions to counter improvised threats with tactical responsiveness and anticipatory acquisition in support of combatant commanders' efforts to prepare for, and adapt to, battlefield ...

  9. File:Landing gear schematic.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: Landing gear of an aircraft, schematic view of the retracting mechanism. Filled circles are fixed relative to the airframe. Coloured arcs denote the locus of points. 1 Hydraulic Ram 2 Hinge Mechanism 3 Strut 4 Wheel Boss 5 Wheel . 6 Fuselage/Wing