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`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.
This can be accomplished substantially by a continued trend toward better facilities and techniques for fire control and more resources to cope with critical fire periods, and a more intensive application of a program of prevention, detection, and control of insect and disease infestations.
Expansion, modernization, and development of fire control to a proficiency and strength of force which will prevent as many fires as possible and suppress fires before they spread beyond permitted standards.
Mechanical analog computers were very important in gun fire control in World War II, The Korean War and well past the Vietnam War ; they were made in significant numbers.
Data communications can be especially important for artillery because by using structured messages and defined data types fire control messages can be automatically routed and processed by computers.
For example a target acquisition element can send a message with target details which is automatically routed through the tactical and technical fire control elements to deliver firing data to the gun's laying system and the gun automatically laid.
Control, sometimes called tactical fire control, is primarily concerned with ' targeting ' and the allotment of fire units to targets.
In some armies only designated artillery HQs have the tactical fire control authority to order fire units to engage a target, all ' calls for fire ' being requests to these HQs.
The process to produce firing data this is sometimes called technical fire control.
Technical fire control has been performed in various places, but mostly in firing batteries.
However, in the 1930s the French moved it to battalion level and combined it with some tactical fire control.
Nevertheless most armies seemed to have retained it within firing batteries and some duplicated the technical fire control teams in a battery to give operational resilience and tactical flexibility.
Computers reduced the number of men needed and enabled decentralisation of technical fire control to autonomous sub-battery fire units such as platoons, troops or sections, although some armies had sometimes done this with their manual methods.
Geographically dispersed fire units may or may not have an integral capability for technical fire control.
The system came with two Intellivision-style control pads, but with a lighter touch on the side ' fire ' buttons.
One characteristic of the Missileer ancestry was that the radar sent it mid-course corrections, which allowed the fire control system to " loft " the missile up over the target into thinner air where it had better range.
The President on national radio stated that the situation was under control, but residents, diplomats and journalists reportedly heard shots of weapons fire.
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The ultimate trail system will be of value primarily for recreation and wildlife utilization and fire protection.
Find out whether fire protection, sewage system, gas, water mains, and electrical lines are available in the locality.
* Cal-Earth ( The California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture ) has developed a patented system called Superadobe, in which bags filled with stabilized earth are layered with strands of barbed wire to form a structure strong enough to withstand earthquakes, fire and flood.
* Advanced Sound-ranging Programme, a portable, passive, acoustic sensing system for detecting and locating the source of artillery fire and loud detonations, operated by the Royal Artillery
Because field artillery mostly uses indirect fire the guns have to be part of a system that enables them to attack targets invisible to them in accordance with the combined arms plan.
Control of fire against opportunity targets is an important differentiator between different types of artillery system.
In the latter units fire as tactically necessary and replenish to maintain or reach their authorised holding ( which can vary ), so the logistic system has to be able to cope with surge and slack.
Modern coastal artillery ( for example, Russia's " Bereg " system ) is often self propelled, ( allowing it to avoid counter-battery fire ) and fully integrated, meaning that each battery has all of the support systems that it requires ( maintenance, targeting radar, etc.
Derleth also attempted to connect the deities of the Mythos to the four elements ( air, earth, fire, and water ), but was forced to adopt artistic license and create beings to represent certain elements ( air and fire ) to legitimise his system of classification.
His original system consisted of the four classical elements found in the ancient Greek traditions ( air, earth, fire and water ), in addition to two philosophical elements: sulphur, ‘ the stone which burns ’, which characterized the principle of combustibility, and mercury, which contained the idealized principle of metallic properties.
The disadvantage is the greater weight and clumsiness compared to a bow, as well as the slower rate of fire and the lower efficiency of the acceleration system, but there would be reduced elastic hysteresis, making the crossbow a more accurate weapon.
In the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, residents of San Francisco's Marina District help run lengths of fire hose from a fireboat to firefighters ashore after the hydrant system failed.
A fire alarm goes off and Beatty picks up the address from the dispatcher system.
Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.
These jobs were typically filled under the spoils system, but Cleveland announced that he would not fire any Republican who was doing his job well, and would not appoint anyone solely on the basis of party service.
Despite this almost exclusive focus, however, Greek fire is best understood as a complete weapon system of many components, all of which were needed to operate together to render it effective.
In attempting to reconstruct the Greek fire system, the concrete evidence, as it emerges from the contemporary literary references, provides the following characteristics:
( This AEGIS not to be confused with the U. S. Navy ` s AEGIS, a shipboard fire control radar and weapons system.
A common aiming system is to alternate solid (" ball ") rounds and tracer ammunition rounds ( usually one tracer round for every four ball rounds ), so shooters can see the trajectory and " walk " the fire into the target, and direct the fire of other soldiers.
Gatling guns have several barrels on a rotating carousel and a system of cams that load, cock, and fire each mechanism progressively as it rotates through the sequence.
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`` Hold your fire '', Montero was shouting.
The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.
It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.
He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.
The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??
His long nose wiggled at the smells of frizzling bacon and heating java, but the fire was low, and he wanted to waste no time.
My friends and I come from a ship which was destroyed by fire.
Directly opposite the door was a roaring log fire, a welcome sight on that bitterly cold day.
Little enough joy was afforded Wright in the spring of 1925, when another destructive fire broke out at Taliesin.
The first news stories had it that this blaze was started by a bolt of lightning, as though Miriam could call down fire from heaven like a prophet of the Old Testament.
The wind from the Rhine was damp and chill, necessitating a fire for warmth.
As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.
If there was a fire or a flood he would save Mama first and Violet next.
The fire in the sitting room was lighted.
A fire had just been lighted, he saw, and things had been set out for drinks, and, like any stray, his response to these comforts was instantaneous.
About 45 percent of the loss in growth was attributable to disease, 20 percent to insects, 17 percent to fire, and 18 percent to weather, animals, and various other causes.
A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.
Then he was to co-ordinate his fire with a radar-controlled shore gun firing white tracers.
It was in 1814 that Abraham Wharf and his sister sat by a meager fire in their house on Dogtown Common, a desolate place even then.
Most of the fire was directed by Cotten against Dallas and Sen. Parkhouse.
A baby was burned to death and two other children were seriously injured last night in a fire which damaged their one-room Anne Arundel county home.
Police said the children's mother, Mrs. Eleanor Somerville, was visiting next door when the fire occurred.
`` But the point is '', Charlotte said, `` there he was, freezing, naked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in worship of Fudo, the god of fire ''.
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