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  • Behind the green soars the 3,156-meter-high cone of Mount Welirang, one of the area's five semiactive -- that is, quiet for the moment -- volcanoes.www. tamandayu.com

    Java Tees 2009

  • The fund will award one index-tracking or "passive" mandate, as many as 10 active mandates -- which allow managers to select stocks -- and two "semiactive" mandates as part of a periodic review of its existing portfolio.

    French pension fund ends 2008

  • As soon as he was in position, he selected a Sparrow, waiting for the tone lock telling him he had a good radar fix for the semiactive guidance head to follow.

    Nuke Zone Douglass, Keith 1998

  • Guided by the AWG-9 pulse-doppler radar in the Tomcat, it used semiactive radar homing for initial guidance.

    Nuke Zone Douglass, Keith 1998

  • The semiactive radar-homing AIM-7 missile used continuous wave or pulse-doppler radar for target illumination.

    Arctic Fire Douglass, Keith 1997

  • They were SARH-guided -- semiactive radar-homing -- which meant they homed on radar energy reflected off the target by the firing aircraft.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • SDB II's seeker fuses millimeter-wave radar, uncooled imaging infrared IIR and semiactive laser sensors on a single gimbal.

    unknown title 2011

  • SDB II's seeker fuses millimeter-wave radar, uncooled imaging infrared IIR and semiactive laser sensors on a single gimbal.

    unknown title 2011

  • "SM-6 is capable of over-the-horizon air defense and takes full advantage of the kinematics available to the Standard Missile family, allowing the use of both active and semiactive modes and advanced fuzing techniques."

    Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com 2010

  • Article Comments - Raytheon integrates millimeter-wave radar, uncooled imaging IR and semiactive laser in weapon

    EE Times-Asia News 2010

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