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The infrared seeker can lock on to the heat the target is producing. It is called a "passive" seeker because, unlike a radar-guided missile, it does not emit radio waves in order to "see" its target. It is a "fire-and-forget" weapon, meaning it requires no input from the gunner ...
Cruise missiles have an 8.5-foot (2.61-meter) wingspan, are powered by turbofan engines and can fly 500 to 1,000 miles (805 to 1,610 km) depending on the configuration. A cruise missile's job in life is to deliver a 1,000-pound (450-kg) high-explosive bomb to a precise location...
Like the Stinger missile, the Patriot is a guided missile, though the Patriot is more sophisticated. The Stinger uses an infrared seeker that locks on to the heat of an airplane's engine exhaust. Stingers are launched by a person who holds it on their shoulder after aiming and then firing...
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We kind of need this range of human emotions in our life. It’s just when they become so persistent that they start to overwhelm us, then it becomes a problem. So it’s more about how we can change our relationship with anxieties – not how do we get rid of them.” Meditation can...
I have identified the Agent as a spiritual Soul in the likeness of God (because it gives us creative powers), manifest in our unique phenomenological ineluctable Needs to Exist, to Love and to Know, which account for our myriad motivations beyond fulfillment of the Social-Animal Needs (SA-Nee...
Honeymoon #2 is going to be an attempt (hopefully successful, but it depends on how my frankenfoot holds out) to hike the Appalachian Trail. That will be happening in spring 2020 —‘cuz it’s going to take us that long to get in good enough shape!
Israel’s Iron Dome system has been in the headlines often since the country began its military offensive in Gaza in response to the October 7 Hamas attacks inside Israel that sparked the current hostilities in the region. The Iron Dome is the bottom layer of Israel’s missile defense, ac...