Military experts say a tight naval blockade off Cuban ports and at the approaches to Cuban waters would require two naval task forces, each built around an aircraft carrier with a complement of about 100 planes and several destroyers.

Gyroscopes can be used to construct gyrocompasses, which complement or replace magnetic compasses ( in ships, aircraft and spacecraft, vehicles in general ), to assist in stability ( Hubble Space Telescope, bicycles, motorcycles, and ships ) or be used as part of an inertial guidance system.

Thermal imaging cameras are widely used to complement new or existing security networks, and for night vision on aircraft, where they are commonly referred to as " FLIR " ( for " forward-looking infrared ".

The initial aircraft complement numbered 24 Vultee BT-13 Valiant and BT-15 aircraft.

The Task Force is often composed of one or more aircraft carriers, each with an accompanying complement of two to six cruisers and destroyers.

The precise definition of the type varies by country ; light carriers typically have a complement of aircraft only ½ to ⅔ the size of a full-sized or " fleet " carrier.

Draper ’ s work has contributed substantially to the development of today ’ s complement of precise inertial sensors, software, and ultra-reliable systems critical for precision GN & C of commercial and military aircraft, submarines, strategic and tactical missiles, spacecraft, and unmanned vehicles.

* The United States Navys first aircraft carrier,, embarks her first standard air complement, Fighter Squadron 1 ( VF-1 ), equipped with Naval Aircraft Factory / Curtiss TS-1 fighters.

Several buildings complement such a fleet of aircraft, including a Dispatch center, a full time maintenance center, and dedicated line support personal and much more.

Although open, the base had yet to receive its first complement of military aircraft.

During the following week the aircraft complement was built up to 64 C-47s and similar numbers of Airspeed Horsa and Waco CG-4A gliders.

651 Sqn AAC joined them in 2004 with a complement of Islander aircraft.

The squadron received its first maintenance trainer F-15C Eagle on 10 January 1994, then its full complement of F-15C & D aircraft by 22 July 1994.

This was part of an initiative to stand up a larger complement of Coast Guard E-2C aircraft, primarily in the counternarcotics and drug interdiction roles, augmented by Coast Guard HC-130s that would also be equipped with similar radar systems.

The complement of surviving German fighter aircraft that once served with JG 5 comprises some twenty examples of the Messerschmitt Bf 109, and several examples of the radial-engined versions of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.

By the end of May, its complement ran to 45 flying groups operating 5, 000 aircraft.

However, the complement was completed with seized Japanese aircraft, mostly ones dedicated to liaison duties.

By September 1952, Upper Heyford was ready to handle a full complement of 45 aircraft and when the 2nd Bombardment Wing arrived it deployed all three of its bombardment squadrons here with their B-50s Lakenheath.

Between the fall of 1945 and March 31, 1946, RCAF Station Greenwood maintained a nominal training complement of personnel and aircraft.

These six blimps initially conducted nighttime anti-submarine warfare operations to complement the daytime missions flown by FAW-15 aircraft ( PBYs and B-24s ) using magnetic anomaly detection to locate U-boats in the relatively shallow waters around the Straits of Gibraltar.

The unit was mobilised and crossed from Portsmouth on 21 March 1917 to France and was first based at St Andre-aux-Bois, where it received twelve FE2bs aircraft on complement.

On 1 April 1917, the unit moved to Izel-le-Hameau and took a further four aircraft on complement, in the form of BE2es.

In September of that year, the squadron took Hawker Horsley aircraft on complement and in November 1930 moved to Donibristle, Fife, converting to the torpedo bomber role.

It carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus ' atmosphere with radio waves, scan its brightness in ultraviolet light, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet.

Mariner 5 ( Mariner Venus 1967 ) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus ' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha ( hard ultraviolet ) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet.

The single 48-bit accumulator was fundamentally subtractive, addition being carried out by subtracting the ones ' complement of the number to be added.

( In peacetime, all ships of the line carried a reduced complement of guns.

Both these were rated for 120 guns but never carried their full complement.

The wind that has carried her and which she is fighting off, straining to keep steady – as mentioned the original mounting had her standing on a ship's prow, just having landed – is the invisible complement of the figure and the viewer is made to imagine it.

The always present tens ' complement " overflow 1 " which carried out beyond the most significant digit of the results register was, in effect, discarded.

CGRO carried a complement of four instruments that covered an unprecedented six decades of the electromagnetic spectrum, from 20 keV to 30 GeV ( from 0. 02 MeV to 30000 MeV ).

The carried ball can then be moved in many different ways to complement the pattern.

The number of charges carried varies by design-the GSh-6-23 has a generous complement of ten, while others have as few as one.

Test installation was carried out in mid-1990 and firing trials followed from mid-1991 in the U. K. Starstreak would complement the Stinger by improving the overall systems ability to deal with low hovering helicopters which frequently do not provide enough contrast for lock-on by infrared guided missiles.

The Taku was armed with six three pounders and two torpedo tubes and carried a full complement of 58 officers and men.

Blackman and Al Snow then formed a tag team that was known unofficially as Head Cheese, as Snow made Blackman wear a cheesehead hat to complement the mannequin head that Snow carried to the ring.

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In the first of these sentences if by is the complement of come and Tuesday is an adjunct of time equivalent to on Tuesday, there will be strong stress on by in the spoken language ; ;

but if a complement for come is implied and by Tuesday is a prepositional unit used as an adjunct, by will be unstressed or lightly stressed at most.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

Heydrich, in opening the Conference, followed the reasoning and even the phraseology of the order issued earlier by Goering which authorized the Final Solution as `` a complement to '' previous `` solutions '' for eliminating the Jews from German living space through violence, economic strangulation, forced emigration, and evacuation.

Lead vocal duties were shared by guest vocalists chosen by their vocal style to complement each song.

Version 4. 1, in a slightly modified form, was also the standard operating system for the Apple Network Server systems sold by Apple Computer to complement the Macintosh line.

They were also, by virtue of their small capacity engines, far less efficient than the cavalry and horse-drawn guns that they were intended to complement.

While its results normally complement the information obtained by chemical experiments, it can in some cases predict hitherto unobserved chemical phenomena.

Auxiliaries and copulas without an explicit governed verb or complement after them cannot be replaced by a clitic, even if they are not stressed:

Their synthesis is joined to the three alternative pathways ( classical, lectin dependent and alternative ) of complement activation by a convertase enzyme.

These three works complement each other in such a way that it has been suggested that they are remnants of a single treatise on mechanics written by Euclid.

He then caused himself to be accompanied by the full complement of twenty-four lictors, and ordered the surviving Consul, Gnaeus Servilius Geminus, to dismiss his lictors ( in essence, surrendering his office ), and to present himself before Fabius as a private citizen.

MISSANG had a strength of 249 Angolan men ( both soldiers and police officers ), following an agreement signed between the defence ministers of both countries, as a complement to a Governmental accord ratified by both parliaments.

These codes have influenced, and in turn, have been influenced by, the responsa ; History of Responsa thus provides an informative complement to the survey below.

For two central idempotents e and f the complement and the join and meet are given by

The jazz soloist is often supported by a rhythm section who " comp " ( accompany the soloist ), by playing chords and rhythms that outline the song structure and complement the soloist.

Others lead to the destruction of receptors, either by complement fixation or by inducing the muscle cell to eliminate the receptors through endocytosis.

During gametogenesis — the production of new gametes by an adult — the normal complement of 46 chromosomes needs to be halved to 23 to ensure that the resulting haploid gamete can join with another gamete to produce a diploid organism.

If the measured value does not lie in B, replace B by its complement for the above state.