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    Airborne Cigar, or ABC for short, was a World War II electronic countermeasure (ECM) system developed by the Telecommunications Research Establishment...
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  • Liberators and Fortresses carrying various jammers such as Carpet, Airborne Cigar, Mandrel, Jostle, and Piperack. Examples of modern aircraft designed...
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    (TRE). Special equipment used included Airborne Cigar (ABC) jammer, Jostle (jammer), Mandrel (jammer), Airborne Grocer (jammer), Piperack (jammer), Perfectos...
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  • technique for building bridges Aerial bundled cable, for power lines Airborne Cigar, a British military electronic countermeasure system used during World...
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  • Overlord. Aircraft interception (AI) radar) – Night fighter radar. Airborne Cigar (A.B.C.) – Combination of high-speed scanner and three high-power transmitters...
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    were ultimately fitted with APT-16A and ALT-7 jamming transmitters, Airborne Cigar and Carpet jammers, APR-4 and APR-9 "sniffing" receivers, and chaff...
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    several Fortresses equipped with an electronic warfare system known as "Airborne Cigar" (ABC). This was operated by German-speaking radio operators to identify...
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    in 1943 equipped with a top secret radio jamming system codenamed "Airborne Cigar" (ABC) operated by an eighth crew member who could understand German...
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    ultimately fitted with American APT-16A and ALT-7 jamming transmitters, Airborne Cigar and Carpet jammers, APR-4 and APR-9 "sniffing" receivers, and chaff...
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    turrets in 1944. Identifiable by a radome mounted below the turret. Airborne Cigar (ABC) This was fitted only to the Lancasters of 101 Squadron. It had...
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    after returning from a flight to Nuremberg, Germany as part of an Airborne Cigar (ABC), electronic countermeasure mission, crashed on the airfield killing...
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  • Lancasters for a nighttime attack with the 101st Squadron equipped with the "Airborne Cigar" jamming device and supplemented with several diversionary flights,...
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    Germany, using Monica from July 1943 in three of their Lancasters, then Airborne Cigar (ABC) later in 1943. ABC involved German-speaking operators to misguide...
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  • II and Mk III and Stirlings. They used the jamming system codenamed "Airborne Cigar" (ABC) to block German night fighter communications. German speaking...
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    reach in the Indian Ocean. In aviation, motherships have been used in the airborne aircraft carrier, air launch and captive carry roles. Some large long-range...
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    Legends Unite, while the "Anniversario" edition is featured in Asphalt 8: Airborne. The Battista is powered by a 120 kW⋅h battery pack supplied by Rimac Automobili...
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    502nd Infantry Regiment (United States) (category 101st Airborne Division)
    entry into World War II, and was assigned as a regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, "The Screaming Eagles", one of the most decorated formations...
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    The 128th Airborne Command and Control Squadron is a unit of the Georgia Air National Guard 116th Air Control Wing located at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia...
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    intelligence (COMINT) equipment. The cigar-shaped case under the fuselage contains the Igla-1 - Side looking airborne radar (SLAR). This is used for radar...
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  • Automata UK Stephen N. Curtis 1983 My Name Is Uncle Groucho, You Win a Fat Cigar Automata UK Mel Croucher, Christian Penfold 1983 Pi-balled Automata UK Jason...
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  • Isshikirikukō) and was commonly referred to by Japanese Navy pilots as Hamaki (葉巻, "cigar", lit. "leaf roll") due to the cylindrical shape of its fuselage and its...
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  • 2007 following the release of Medal of Honor: Vanguard, Medal of Honor: Airborne, and Medal of Honor: Heroes 2. EA DICE was recruited to develop the multiplayer...
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    many brands of gold, hundreds of luxury alcohol brands, and hundreds of cigars with the name on it were found. At the Presidential Palace, in Uday's dwellings...
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  • be certain, he searched for evidence in Sal's home and found a wire in a cigar box. He then organized a hit on Sal, with Silvio and Paulie, on a boat....
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    less dense than the surrounding air to achieve the lift needed to stay airborne. In early dirigibles, the lifting gas used was hydrogen, due to its high...
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    Everett (1968) Consolidated Cigar Corporation (1968), including Columbia Engineering, Consolidated Caguas, Consolidated Cigar Corporation of Cayey, Flinchbaugh...
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    that broke up the German entrenchments surrounding Bastogne and the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge. In April 1945, he was promoted...
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    Steve (May 19, 2005). "The cigar goes to Audioslave". Los Angeles Times. Grigoriadis, Vanessa (May 10, 2005). "Airborne With Audioslave". Rolling Stone...
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    October 2022). "Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 19 August 2023...
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  • of Waterloo. He and a colleague were in the Athabasca Basin performing airborne surveying work for Ottawa-based Sander Geophysics. Carnegie told colleagues...
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