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  • Thumbnail for Flare
    Flare (redirect from Rocket signals)
    fired from rocket or artillery, or deployed by flare guns or handheld percussive tubes. The earliest recorded use of gunpowder for signaling purposes was...
    24 KB (2,496 words) - 18:17, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Friedrich Wilhelm Sander
    soon expanded the factory's products to include signal rockets. From 1925, the Sander line-throwing rocket pistols designed by him for the rescue of shipwrecked...
    11 KB (1,530 words) - 04:45, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster
    The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) was the first solid-propellant rocket to be used for primary propulsion on a vehicle used for human spaceflight...
    62 KB (7,939 words) - 14:44, 9 June 2024
  • Institution (RNLI) used these rockets in the past to call the crew when the lifeboat needs to be launched. Another example was as a signal on a railway, to alert...
    2 KB (199 words) - 18:09, 10 March 2024
  • Tribe Ryūsei-ha, a Japanese school of ikebana Ryūsei (rocket) (龍勢), a type of gunpowder signal rocket used in medieval Japan Longjing (disambiguation), Ryūsei...
    948 bytes (148 words) - 08:03, 13 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of New Orleans
    held in reserve. The start of the battle was marked by the launch of a signal rocket at 6:20am, soon after followed by artillery fire from the British lines...
    101 KB (12,399 words) - 08:30, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for N1 (rocket)
    The N1/L3 (from Ракета-носитель Raketa-nositel', "Carrier Rocket"; Cyrillic: Н1) was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond...
    74 KB (7,927 words) - 07:40, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Firing pin
    example, may be used to minimise their magnetic signature. The M127A1 signal rocket (and other similar flares) have a primer in the base of the disposable...
    17 KB (2,145 words) - 09:32, 24 February 2024
  • missile. PRB-40 Parachute Disaster Rocket (red). 30mm one-star rocket of green fire ROZ-30, red fire ROCK-30. The signal rocket of the chipboard of red and yellow...
    3 KB (350 words) - 08:45, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Sumter
    took shelter in shell holes in the wall of the fort. In response to a signal rocket fired by the garrison, Fort Johnson and the Confederate warship CSS...
    42 KB (4,624 words) - 14:53, 21 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Atlas (rocket family)
    satellites. Early Atlas rockets were also built specifically for non-military uses. On 18 December 1958, an Atlas was used to launch the Signal Communication by...
    31 KB (2,643 words) - 15:28, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gravity Probe A
    microwave signal derived from the maser frequency was transmitted to the ground throughout the mission. The one-way signal received from the rocket was relativistically...
    13 KB (1,667 words) - 02:33, 24 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System
    The M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (M270 MLRS) is an American armored self-propelled multiple launch rocket system. The U.S. Army variant of the M270...
    85 KB (8,287 words) - 08:12, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rocket artillery
    Rocket artillery is artillery that uses rockets as the projectile. The use of rocket artillery dates back to medieval China where devices such as fire...
    24 KB (3,063 words) - 09:27, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for V-2 rocket
    long-range 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...
    98 KB (11,309 words) - 15:29, 1 June 2024
  • Alexander Parsons Martin, this invention represents a "transition from signal rockets to firearms, properly so called." This happened in 1000 AD, while Tang...
    2 KB (172 words) - 22:29, 6 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bazooka
    a tube-fired rocket for military use. He and his co-worker Clarence N. Hickman successfully demonstrated his rocket to the US Army Signal Corps at Aberdeen...
    69 KB (8,267 words) - 23:26, 1 June 2024
  • days before the main battle, and fired a large number of rockets at the same moment to signal the beginning of an assault by 6,000 Indian infantry and...
    17 KB (1,793 words) - 08:20, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sputnik 1
    meteor, and would have changed the duration of radio signal impulse. While attached to the rocket, Sputnik 1 was protected by a cone-shaped payload fairing...
    79 KB (8,476 words) - 22:52, 8 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Land Forces of the National People's Army
    Regiment 6th Rocket Detachment 6th Heavy Mortar Detachment 6th Reconnaissance Battalion 6th Engineer Battalion 6th Light AT Detachment 6th Signal Battalion...
    25 KB (2,055 words) - 01:25, 29 May 2024
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