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Behind the green soars the 3,156-meter-high cone of Mount Welirang, one of the area's five semiactive -- that is, quiet for the moment -- volcanoes.www. tamandayu.com
Java Tees 2009
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The fund will award one index-tracking or "passive" mandate, as many as 10 active mandates -- which allow managers to select stocks -- and two "semiactive" mandates as part of a periodic review of its existing portfolio.
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As soon as he was in position, he selected a Sparrow, waiting for the tone lock telling him he had a good radar fix for the semiactive guidance head to follow.
Nuke Zone Douglass, Keith 1998
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Guided by the AWG-9 pulse-doppler radar in the Tomcat, it used semiactive radar homing for initial guidance.
Nuke Zone Douglass, Keith 1998
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The semiactive radar-homing AIM-7 missile used continuous wave or pulse-doppler radar for target illumination.
Arctic Fire Douglass, Keith 1997
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They were SARH-guided -- semiactive radar-homing -- which meant they homed on radar energy reflected off the target by the firing aircraft.
Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994
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SDB II's seeker fuses millimeter-wave radar, uncooled imaging infrared IIR and semiactive laser sensors on a single gimbal.
unknown title 2011
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SDB II's seeker fuses millimeter-wave radar, uncooled imaging infrared IIR and semiactive laser sensors on a single gimbal.
unknown title 2011
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"SM-6 is capable of over-the-horizon air defense and takes full advantage of the kinematics available to the Standard Missile family, allowing the use of both active and semiactive modes and advanced fuzing techniques."
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Article Comments - Raytheon integrates millimeter-wave radar, uncooled imaging IR and semiactive laser in weapon
EE Times-Asia News 2010
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