Today, searchlights are used in advertising, fairs, festivals and other public events.

Among the gallery ’ s objects are: a CF-101 Voodoo jet ; an M109 self-propelled howitzer ; an East German BMP infantry fighting vehicle ; tracked artillery from the First World War ; a Chieftain tank ; a Jagdpanzer IV tank destroyer ; an M3 Lee ; a fully restored Panzer V Panther tank ; a Panzer II ; a Leopard C1 tank ; searchlights ; rare motorcycles ; Field Marshal Alexander ’ s staff car ; a Canadian Iltis jeep and other vehicles with service in the Balkans during the 1990s ; a Molch midget submarine ; underwater mines ; a T-34 ; a Valentine tank recovered from a bog in 1990 ; an Italian L3 / 35 tankette ; and Weather Station Kurt, an automated weather station planted by a German U-boat on the coast of Labrador in the 1940s.

Xenon arc lamps are used in movie projectors in theaters, in searchlights, and for specialized uses in industry and research to simulate sunlight.

Larger lamps are employed in searchlights where narrow beams of light are generated, or in film production lighting where daylight simulation is required.

Police rotary-wing aircraft are normally equipped with special equipment, including night vision, FLIR, surveillance cameras, radar, special radio systems and engines, loudspeaker systems, tear gas dispensers, searchlights, winches and winch cables, flashing light beacons, police rescue equipment and special seating.

Filmed in black-and-white, " searchlights " cross the stage and several camera effects are used, such as slow-motion.

There are different types of lighting effects included in the show, such as laser, searchlights, LED lights, simple lighting and projection lighting.

The company was heavily involved in the war effort, with products such as radios, signal lamps and arc-lamp carbons ( used in searchlights ).

This meant that the ground based portion of the system was overwhelmed-with only one or two searchlights or radars available per " cell ", the system was able to handle perhaps six interceptions per hour.

Beginning in 1937, there was an effort to equip many tanks with a second machine gun in the rear of the turret and an anti-aircraft machine gun on top of it, as well as the addition of two searchlights above the gun for night gunnery, a new VKU-3 command system, and a TPU-3 intercom.

Demands by the Bürgermeisters in Germany led to the recall of the searchlights to the major cities, which undermined this system.

Prevot had said that the searchlights would be bounced off the clouds at 2230 hours, `` which gives us time to get settled in position ''.

For example, during the June 19, 1986 overrun of the San Miguel Army base, FMLN sappers dressed only in black shorts, their faces blacked out with grease, sneaked through barbed wire at night, avoiding the searchlights, they made it to within firing range of the outer wall.

Eight watchtowers, equipped with searchlights and machine guns pointed inward at the incarcerees, were positioned around the perimeter of the camp.

The Royal Navy used searchlights in 1882 to prevent Egyptian forces from manning artillery batteries at Alexandria.

143 searchlights were directed at the German defense force across the Neisse River with the aim of temporarily blinding them during a Soviet offensive.

Use of searchlights at the Luminato arts festival in Toronto

Early in the morning before dawn, at around 5: 00 a. m. Moscow time, the searchlights that had been illuminating the main entrance to the theater went out.

By December 1914 the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve ( RNVR ) was manning AA guns and searchlights assembled from various sources at some nine ports.

Since most attacks were at night, searchlights were soon used, and acoustic methods of detection and locating were developed.

One battery, with a platoon of searchlights, was located at Fort Wint, in Subic Bay.

After pointedly directing his searchlights at the ship's ensign, an invitation to surrender — which was declined — he opened fire, finally sinking the ship.

Sniper towers with searchlights were constructed near each mill building, and high-pressure water cannons ( some capable of spraying boiling-hot liquid ) were placed at each entrance.

Agents shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and fired bullets into the tents at random, occasionally killing and maiming people.

The to 2 inch colored " gems " sparkled in sunlight throughout the day and were illuminated by over 50 powerful electrical searchlights at night.

This style was not just used for physical construction, but on the ordered columns of searchlights that formed Speer's " cathedral of light " used at the Nuremberg Party Rallies.

Due to the repairs after the fire on July 15th 2011, the lights were limited to the white light on the top and searchlights at the base.

During the raid, the Luftwaffe experiments for the first time with Wilde Sau (" Wild Boar ") night fighter tactics, in which single-engine day fighters use any illumination – from searchlights, flares, fires, etc., – available over a city to visually identify and attack enemy bombers at night.

He calls for the use of antiaircraft artillery and searchlights around likely targets ; the deployment of aircraft forward in Europe to attack all Zeppelin and other enemy air bases within reach ; the interception of enemy aircraft between Dover and London by British aircraft, coordinated by telephone and telegraph ; the basing of aircraft at Hendon specifically for the defense of London, with their crews specifically trained and equipped for night-fighting and their operations also coordinated by telephone ; a blackout in major cities ; and warning the public of the dangers of air attack, precautions against it, and how to take shelter when under air attack.

* Command of all pilots, airplanes, and searchlights devoted to the defense of London from air attack is consolidated under a single commander – Major T. C. Higgins, the commanding officer of the Royal Flying Corpss No. 19 Reserve Squadron at Hounslow – for the first time.

The fort was often required to fire live practice rounds, and in 1894 participated in experiments to illuminate targets with searchlights so they could be engaged at night.

The destroyers were to illuminate any targets with searchlights and discharge torpedoes while the cruisers were to open fire at any available targets without awaiting orders.

Flight Lieutenant Learoyd took his plane into the target at only 150 feet, in the full glare of the searchlights and flak barrage all round him.

Plotting rooms were constructed in 1941-2, and searchlights installed at Billy Goat point.

Many Irvine residents can easily spot the location of " the Spectrum " at night because of the moving searchlights it projects in the night sky.

The older 1996 – 2000 Fox logo with searchlights is still used by many of the network's affiliates in their logos, also being an alternate logo from 2000 onwards, plus also being part of an alternate version of the Fox Sports logo.

Hiei, with her nine lit searchlights, huge size, and course taking her directly through the U. S. formation, became the focus of gunfire from many of the U. S. ships.

Later that same year, the French and British forces landed troops under searchlights.

Horseshoe Curve was lit up again with fireworks and rail-borne searchlights during its sesquicentennial in 2004 as an homage to the celebrations in 1954.

Hundreds of Coventry-Simplex engines were manufactured during World War I to be used in generating sets for searchlights.

Accordingly, the Royal Air Force established during 1941 a network of inland GCI radar stations, RAF Sopley, Sturminster Marshall, RAF Durrington, RAF Willesborough, RAF Waldringfield, RAF Orby, and RAF Avebury, whose task was to direct searchlights onto intruders, and also to guide interceptor nightfighters.