Special Vehicle Operations
Special Vehicle Operations See also Special Vehicle Team In 1981, Ford formed the Special Vehicle Operations (SVO) group to design and develop ...
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Special Vehicle Team
Special Vehicle Team See also Special Vehicle Operations SVT, short for Special Vehicle Team is an arm of Ford Motor ... the development of the company's highest-performance vehicles, much like Mercedes-AMG, BMW ...
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Landing Vehicle Tracked
Landing Vehicle Tracked LVT-4 General characteristics Crew 3 ... km (road), 80 km (water) The Landing Vehicle Tracked (LVT) was an amphibious vehicle used by the United States Navy, Marine ... had its origins in a civilian rescue vehicle called the Alligator. Developed by Donald Roebling ... Two years later, Roebling built a redesigned vehicle with greatly improved water speed. The ...
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User:Avriette/Task List/ASAT
... and reached fruition during the 1980s. The performance of the Army's equipment in the ... air defense missile, and an infantry fighting vehicle. This group of equipment, which became identified ... Army during the 1970s and 1980s. The performance of Army equipment in Operation DESERT SHIELD ... Gulf war provided the Army with a performance baseline from which it could delineate further ... the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Force Development. By March ...
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Talk:List of automotive superlatives/Archive
... but it was not really a mainstram vehicle - I don't think Isuzu would have ... The implication seems to be that any vehicle which lacks any of these things is ... be made street-legal (through the Single-Vehicle Approval (SVA) process used for most low ... about it? Lamborghini isn't the only performance-car company to sell an SUV. BMW ... F-250 (which is, in fact, the vehicle previously listed with the largest straight- ...
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Patriot Act (Congress wiki)
... contract with local and State governments for performance of security functions at United States military ... and enhance the technical support and tactical operations of the FBI, $200,000,000 for ... the official receiving that information in the performance of his official duties. ``(ii) If the ... is to receive that information in the performance of his official duties. Any Federal official ... the official receiving that information in the performance of his official duties. Any Federal ...
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List of modern AFV and artillery related terms and acronyms
... AA anti-aircraft AAAV Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle AAD Armoured Amphibious Dozer AAG anti-aircraft ... Armoured Personnel Carrier (Turkey) AAV Assault Amphibian Vehicle ABIT Advanced Built-In Test ABM Air ... skid Braking System ABSV Armoured Battlegroup Support Vehicle ACAVP Advanced Composite Armoured Vehicle Platform (UK) ACCE Abrams/Crusader Common Engine ACCV Armored Cavalry Cannon Vehicle (US) ACE Armored Combat Earthmover (US) ...
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Space Shuttle program
... United States government's only manned launch vehicle currently in service. The winged shuttle orbiter ... 1960s and has dominated NASA's manned operations since the mid-1970s. According to the ... the yet-to-be-developed Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV). However, following the STS-114 return ... of three main assemblies: the reusable Orbiter Vehicle (OV), the expendable External Tank (ET), and ... the side hatch for entering/exiting the vehicle is also located there, as is ...
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Tank
... A tank is a tracked armoured fighting vehicle, designed primarily to engage enemy forces by ... hence keeping the production of a fighting vehicle secret. Tanks and armour tactics have undergone ... to begin research into a self-propelled vehicle which could cross trenches, crush barbed wire ... of schemes to create a tracked fighting vehicle, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill ... determinant of a tank's cross-country performance. Tanks with limited suspension travel subject ...
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Flight controller
... capability of sending commands to the space vehicle for any type of system reconfigurations. Also ... work console during reentry. The duration of operations for Space Shuttle flight controllers is short ... time is a very critical component of operations. A failure on the Shuttle leaves the ... controllers take a prophylactic approach to space vehicle operations. There are command capabilities that ISS ...
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