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    levels. The Scalable Plate Carrier was analyzed for the U.S. Army's Soldier Plate Carrier System demonstration. The Improved Scalable Plate Carrier (ISPC)...
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  • by the Modular Scalable Vest. The U.S. Marine Corps has replaced the OTV with the Modular Tactical Vest (MTV) and Scalable Plate Carrier (SPC), although...
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    The Soldier Plate Carrier System (SPCS), known commercially as the KDH Magnum TAC-1, is a plate carrier developed for the U.S. Army which provides protection...
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    Modular Scalable Vest (MSV) is a bullet-resistant vest that has been introduced by the United States Armed Forces in 2018. The Modular Scalable Vest is...
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  • Modular Body Armor Vest (category Plate carriers)
    developed the Scalable Plate Carrier. The vest was also evaluated by the U.S. Army. The vest has removable Small Arms Protective Insert plates. The MBAV does...
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  • mobility than previous vests and a quick-release. The Improved Scalable Plate Carrier was developed for troops in Afghanistan because of concerns of excessive...
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    small-short, medium-short, and large-short sizes. Most Marines use the Scalable Plate Carrier in the field, so it is hoped that the additional sizes will encourage...
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  • government transparency activists based in Seattle, Washington Scalable Plate Carrier, a ballistic vest or bullet-resistant vest, often called a bulletproof...
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    2022-03-22. Mezher, Chyrine (2015-02-02). "Navy 2016 Budget Funds V-22 COD Buy, Carrier Refuel". Breaking Defense. Retrieved 2022-04-01. "Photo: A generation of...
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    by the Modular Tactical Vest, Improved Outer Tactical Vest, and Scalable Plate Carrier. However, the PASGT vest still sees some limited use in the U.S...
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    rifle-resistant plates are placed within a carrier. The term "plate carrier" is used specifically to refer to armour carriers which can hold ballistic plates. Broadly...
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    between the ET and service structure is made at the ground umbilical carrier plate (GUCP). Sensors are also installed at the GUCP to measure hydrogen levels...
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    and 41 million passenger-miles. In 1964, the Nickel Plate Road and several other midwestern carriers were merged into the larger Norfolk and Western Railway...
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  • Vehicle registration plates (commonly referred to as "number plates" in British English) are the alphanumeric plates used to display the registration...
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    regular U.S. Army ground combat units overseas, although the new Modular Scalable Vest is set to replace it in the coming years. While the Interceptor Body...
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    (Japanese: 加賀, named after the ancient Kaga Province) was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Originally intended to be one...
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    application was FM inter-carrier sound processing in television receivers. The first application MOS chips were small-scale integration (SSI) chips. Following...
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    the Type 60 Armored Personnel Carrier. About 430 were built. The Type 60 had a welded steel hull, with a sloped Glacis plate and vertical hull sides and...
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    for a 15-ton plate that would form part of a side shell unit of the carrier, but construction began in earnest in early 2007. The carrier was assembled...
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    short circuit between the plates, which can often cause permanent damage to the dielectric, plates, or both. Due to the scaling of capacitance and breakdown...
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    electrodes, a heated cathode and a plate, in which electrons can flow in only one direction, from the cathode to the plate. Among many uses, diodes are found...
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  • personnel carrier variants have been created, ranging from infantry carriers to nuclear missile carriers. The M113 armored personnel carrier has become...
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    merchant aircraft carrier (also known as a MAC ship, the Admiralty's official 'short name') was a limited-purpose aircraft carrier operated under British...
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    as a thick slurry on an unreactive carrier sheet, usually glass, thick aluminum foil, or plastic. The resultant plate is dried and activated by heating...
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    example, a kettle HX for pre-heating, a double pipe HX for the 'carrier' fluid and a plate and frame HX for final cooling. With sufficient knowledge of heat...
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  • Model military vehicle (category Scale modeling)
    be handled, it can be moved by handling the base. Bases may also hold a plate with some information about the model, such as its title or designation...
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    the recoil bounce off the back plate. This allowed the main drive spring to control the forward velocity of the carrier. With the "rate regulator" installed...
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    light focusing in a disordered medium. Flexural waves travelling in elastic plates also produce branched flows. Disorder, in this case, appears in the form...
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    name M1984[citation needed]) is a six-wheeled Chinese armored personnel carrier designed to be amphibious. Built on the chassis of the Hanyang HY472 truck...
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    The Battle of the River Plate was fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939 as the first British naval battle of the Second World War. The Kriegsmarine...
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