Gyro rate unit refers to a fire-control computer developed by the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom in 1937, and which was used extensively on British warships...

000 rounds of 5-inch (127 mm) ammunition fired per kill. In 1940 the Gyro Rate Unit (GRU) was added to the HACS system, an analogue computer capable of...

An inertial measurement unit (IMU) is an electronic device that measures and reports a body's specific force, angular rate, and sometimes the orientation...

systems. By 1940 the RN was adding a Gyro Rate Unit (GRU) which fed bearing and elevation data to a Gyro Rate Unit Box computer (GRUB), which also received...

reliability by eliminating some of the moving parts. Angular rate sensors called rate gyros measure the angular velocity of the vehicle. A strapdown system...

A gyro gunsight (G.G.S.) is a modification of the non-magnifying reflector sight in which target lead (the amount of aim-off in front of a moving target)...

Sea Viper Sea Wolf Unrotated projectile - retired Fuze Keeping Clock Gyro rate unit HACS Hazemeyer gun mount Pom-Pom director Ikara - retired BL 7.5-inch...

as six Mk IV pom-pom directors; all ten of these directors featured Gyro Rate Unit, tachymetric fire control. Duke of York and Howe had HACS Mk V directors...

itself, not its derivative. However, the sensitivity of the fiber optic gyro is enhanced by having a long optical fiber, coiled for compactness, in which...

which, along with the Mk IV Pom-Pom Director, pioneered the use of the Gyro Rate Unit. The King George V design had four 0.5-inch quadruple machine gun mounts...

gyroscopic tachymetric fire-control for short range weapons – From 1940 Gyro Rate Unit – pioneered use of gyroscopic Tachymetric fire-control for medium calibre...

hampered by the ineffective Mk III director. The MK IV Director with a Gyro Rate Unit and Type 282 radar was a great advance and was introduced on the King...

IV director was a considerable improvement and used gyroscopes in a gyro rate unit coupled to an optical rangefinder and Type 282 radar to determine the...

The attitude indicator (AI), formerly known as the gyro horizon or artificial horizon, is a flight instrument that informs the pilot of the aircraft orientation...

A gyroscope (from Ancient Greek γῦρος gŷros, "round" and σκοπέω skopéō, "to look") is a device used for measuring or maintaining orientation and angular...

A Rate integrating gyroscope is a rate gyro with a built in integrator. It is usually a component of an Inertial Measurement Unit or a stabilization system...

combined with Gyro Rate Units (GRU) which gave tachometric capabilities to the system, and radar which greatly improved ranging and rate keeping accuracy...

also called wine-glass gyroscope or mushroom gyro, is a compact, low-noise, high-performance angular rate or rotation sensor. An HRG is made using a thin...

gimbal and gyro become positioned is directly connected to the display needle, thereby indicating the rate of turn. In the turn coordinator, the gyro is canted...

model replacement, where the angular rate is not estimated directly, but rather the measured angular rate from the gyro is used directly to propagate the...

applications. Consider two proof masses vibrating in plane (as in the MEMS gyro) at frequency ω r {\displaystyle \omega _{r}} . The Coriolis effect induces...

Navigation Unit (INU), is the Northrop-built Global Hawk. The KN-4072 and the KN-4074 are the preferred MRLG (Monolithic Ring Laser Gyro) units for Northrop's...

ion mass is expressed in units of the proton mass, μ = m i / m p {\displaystyle \mu =m_{i}/m_{p}} and the ion charge in units of the elementary charge...

inertial guidance platform, control accelerometers, and control rate gyros. The instrument unit (IU) for Saturn V was designed by NASA at Marshall Space Flight...

gyroscopic pitch-bank (artificial horizon), direction (directional gyro) and rate of turn indicator, plus a slip-skid indicator, adjustable altimeter...

Ranging from micro-G's to units of G they span a very impressive dynamic range. Also the Servo Amplifiers, picking off the tiny Gyro signals and amplifying...

and twist rates include the Miller Twist Rule and the McGyro program developed by Bill Davis and Robert McCoy. If an insufficient twist rate is used, the...

example on aircraft, where it is known as heading indicator or directional gyro, but cannot ordinarily be used for long-term marine navigation. The crucial...

air-to-air and air-to-ground radio (20W transmission power) gyro unit (Honeywell SGP500 twin-gyro platform in ORAO) radio altimeter ADF radio compass and...

break. The new gyros were assembled using nitrogen instead of oxygen. Each gyroscope is packaged in a Rate Sensor assembly. The Rate Sensors are packaged...