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  • Counter-battery fire (sometimes called counter-fire) is a battlefield tactic employed to defeat the enemy's indirect fire elements (multiple rocket launchers...
    14 KB (1,911 words) - 08:14, 7 June 2024
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    lithium-ion batteries in plug-electric vehicles pose an exceptional fire hazard. The research looked at whether the high-voltage batteries can cause fires when...
    131 KB (15,219 words) - 18:39, 2 September 2024
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    be fired. Modern field artillery (i.e. post-World War I) has three distinct sections: All batteries have a Fire Support Man (Forward Observer), Fire Direction...
    24 KB (3,303 words) - 07:16, 9 June 2024
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    Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, a lithium battery factory owned by Aricell caught on fire after several batteries exploded. The fire killed 23 workers and wounded...
    10 KB (815 words) - 04:28, 1 September 2024
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    A counter-battery radar or weapon tracking radar is a radar system that detects artillery projectiles fired by one or more guns, howitzers, mortars or...
    22 KB (2,691 words) - 10:46, 23 July 2024
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    A battery energy storage system (BESS) or battery storage power station is a type of energy storage technology that uses a group of batteries to store...
    48 KB (3,792 words) - 19:21, 22 August 2024
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    flight from each fire unit (battery or troop) to the target is taken from the range or firing tables, or the computer and each engaging fire unit subtracts...
    124 KB (16,122 words) - 13:36, 10 September 2024
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    lithium-ion batteries. Incidents included two electrical fires, one aboard an All Nippon Airways 787 and another on a Japan Airlines 787; the second fire was...
    32 KB (3,199 words) - 17:20, 25 April 2024
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    lithium-ion batteries, including fires onboard some aircraft. In January 2013, the U.S. FAA grounded all 787s until it approved the revised battery design...
    245 KB (23,036 words) - 23:33, 11 September 2024
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    moving away from the location from where the shots were fired to avoid counter-battery fire, e.g., from enemy artillery.: 1–51  The first recorded use...
    6 KB (656 words) - 01:50, 15 October 2023
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    Cape Gris-Nez batteries on 29 September 1944, and the positions were secured by the afternoon of the same day. The Todt battery fired for the last time...
    71 KB (8,401 words) - 01:22, 25 August 2024
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    A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery that uses the reversible intercalation of Li+ ions into electronically conducting solids...
    207 KB (21,814 words) - 03:08, 27 August 2024
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    injection wells, largest 4.7 May 21, 2012 - A fire and explosion broke out at an abandoned crude oil tank battery, near El Dorado. March 29, 2013 – Mayflower...
    103 KB (9,928 words) - 09:58, 11 September 2024
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    observer sends a fire order to their own and any other batteries authorized to them, and may request fire from additional batteries. Each battery command post...
    11 KB (1,515 words) - 01:53, 2 September 2024
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    concentrate the fire of dispersed batteries emerged and the introduction fire control staff at artillery headquarters above the batteries. Fixed artillery...
    22 KB (2,729 words) - 11:11, 31 August 2024
  • performance. Guns are most adequate for providing long-range fire support and counter-battery fire. Gander & Chamberlain, p. 180 Gander, Terry & Chamberlain...
    18 KB (89 words) - 03:26, 10 August 2024
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    support, counter-battery fire, and suppression of enemy air defense systems. According to the operator's manual, the M110's typical rate of fire was three rounds...
    14 KB (1,398 words) - 04:48, 26 August 2024
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    at once, and then move before being located and attacked with counter-battery fire. Katyusha weapons of World War II included the BM-13 launcher, light...
    30 KB (3,007 words) - 10:26, 3 September 2024
  • primary and secondary battery types in household, automotive and light industrial use. The complete nomenclature for a battery specifies size, chemistry...
    128 KB (4,614 words) - 19:31, 17 August 2024
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    consists of five batteries and the battalion HQ: Cannon batteries: Nils, Olga and Petter Staff Battery Locating Battery SHORAD Battery Batteries N, O and P...
    6 KB (698 words) - 23:07, 19 January 2023
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