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  • A photo that appeared with a World News article on June 10 about Libya showed a vehicle-mounted weapon.

    Corrections & Amplifications 2011

  • FLIR Systems of Portland, Ore., revealed this month it had received a contract valued at more than $100 million from Customs and Border Protection for new gear, including long-range thermal imaging cameras affixed to vehicle-mounted towers and capable of use day or night.

    G.W. Schulz: SBInet Is Dead, But Don't Expect an End to Costly Border Surveillance G.W. Schulz 2011

  • As the water dripped into the carbide, a quantity of acetylene gas was released, which burned in a bright white flame at the center of the reflector, creating a brilliant beam of steady white light akin to but perhaps not *quite* as bright as the beam from a vehicle-mounted spotlight.

    Making Light: Making light under difficult conditions 2010

  • Rocket Propelled Grenade Pre-launch Detection and Cueing Program aims to deliver "an omni directional, visual, and vehicle-mounted surveillance system for threat detection using cognitive swarm-recognition technology to rapidly detect and identify the locations of attackers with RPGs before they are launched."

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Some systems, including Boomerang, made by BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Massachusetts, automatically direct weaponry — typically vehicle-mounted machine guns — to aim at shooters.

    Where’s the Sniper? 2009

  • With three or more such signals, a vehicle-mounted receiver can translate these data into positional information and tell drivers where they are.

    Spy in the (Euro) sky Richard 2006

  • "Protesters covered their ears and grabbed their heads, overcome by dizziness and nausea, after the vehicle-mounted device began sending out bursts of audible, but not loud, sound at intervals of about 10 seconds … A military official said the device emits a special frequency that targets the inner ear."

    With Shot and Shell or "Modular Crowd Control Munitions" - We Must Bend to Empire's Will 2008

  • The vehicle-mounted TOW (tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided missile), which is the main antitank surface weapon, leaves the "gunner hanging out to fry," as one old sergeant explained.

    'We'll Win, But...' 2008

  • He had a very detailed shopping list, presumably dictated by Iran: spare parts for tank and aircraft engines; shells for 106mm recoilless rifles and for 130mm, 203mm, and 175mm guns; and TOW vehicle-mounted launchers and missiles.

    The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007

  • He had a very detailed shopping list, presumably dictated by Iran: spare parts for tank and aircraft engines; shells for 106mm recoilless rifles and for 130mm, 203mm, and 175mm guns; and TOW vehicle-mounted launchers and missiles.

    The Secret War with Iran Ronen Bergman 2007

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