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Shtora-1 is an electro-optical jammer that disrupts semiautomatic command to line of sight ATGMs, laser rangefinders and target designators. Shtora-1 is a soft kill countermeasure system. The system was shown fitted to a Russian main battle tank during the International Defense Exposition, held in Abu Dhabi in 1995. The first known application ...
She was the only daughter and the youngest of six children of Annunciata M. "Nancy" D'Alesandro (née Lombardi) [4] and Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. [5] Her mother was born in Fornelli, Isernia, Molise, in Southern Italy, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1912; [6] her father traced his Italian ancestry to Genoa, Venice and Abruzzo. [5]
Credit - Kevin Voigt—Getty Images. The Paris Summer Olympics opening ceremony has already garnered much attention, from a freshly-decapitated Marie Antoinette —who was still singing—to an ...
The Lewis antigen system is a human blood group system. It is based upon two genes on chromosome 19: FUT3, or Lewis gene; and FUT2, or Secretor gene. Both genes are expressed in glandular epithelia. FUT2 has a dominant allele which codes for an enzyme (designated Se) and a recessive allele which does not produce a functional enzyme (designated se).
A day after announcing his campaign for president, Huntsman raised $1.2 million, [47] and approximately $4.1 million in the first weeks of his candidacy. [48] Huntsman, who has a speculated net-worth between $11 and $74 million, [ 49 ] was reported to have contributed "less than half" of his campaign's $4.1 million haul.
C parity. In physics, the C parity or charge parity is a multiplicative quantum number of some particles that describes their behavior under the symmetry operation of charge conjugation . Charge conjugation changes the sign of all quantum charges (that is, additive quantum numbers ), including the electrical charge, baryon number and lepton ...
The coulomb (symbol: C) is the unit of electric charge in the International System of Units (SI). [1] [2] It is equal to the electric charge delivered by a 1 ampere current in 1 second and is defined in terms of the elementary charge e, at about 6.241 509 × 1018 e. [2] [1]
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy is a large military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed, and now maintained and upgraded by its successor, Lockheed Martin.It provides the United States Air Force (USAF) with a heavy intercontinental-range strategic airlift capability, one that can carry outsized and oversized loads, including all air-certifiable cargo.