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  2. Typhon missile launcher - Wikipedia

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    The Typhon Medium Range Capability (MRC) is a US Army transporter erector launcher for Standard SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles. Mk 70 Mod 1 Payload Delivery System. The Lockheed Martin Mk 70 Mod 1 is a containerised system containing four strike-length cells from the Mk 41 vertical launch system mounted in the footprint of a 40-foot ISO container.

  3. Typhon - Wikipedia

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    Birth. According to Hesiod 's Theogony ( c. 8th – 7th century BC), Typhon was the son of Gaia (Earth) and Tartarus: "when Zeus had driven the Titans from heaven, huge Earth bore her youngest child Typhoeus of the love of Tartarus, by the aid of golden Aphrodite ". [2] The mythographer Apollodorus (1st or 2nd century AD) adds that Gaia bore ...

  4. AN/SPG-59 - Wikipedia

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    The Typhon Combat System. The Typhon/SPG-59 started as a response to the introduction of sea-skimming anti-ship missiles into service with Soviet Naval Aviation groups. First-generation missile systems like Talos and Terrier used a combination of beam riding and semi-active radar homing (SARH) that required a special targeting radar to illuminate the target through the entire interception.

  5. Typhoon - Wikipedia

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    Three different tropical cyclones active over the Western Pacific Ocean on August 7, 2006 ( Maria, Bopha, and Saomai ). The cyclones on the lower and upper right are typhoons. A typhoon is a tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere and which produces sustained hurricane-force winds of at least 119 km/h ...

  6. Rhea (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Rhea or Rheia (/ ˈ r iː ə /; Ancient Greek: Ῥέα or Ῥεία [r̥ěː.aː]) is a mother goddess in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the Titan daughter of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus, himself a son of Gaia.

  7. 42355 Typhon - Wikipedia

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    42355 Typhon (/ ˈ t aɪ f ɒ n /; provisional designation 2002 CR 46) is a scattered disc object that was discovered on February 5, 2002, by the NEAT program. It measures 162 ± 7 km in diameter, and is named after Typhon , a monster in Greek mythology .

  8. RIM-50 Typhon - Wikipedia

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    RIM-50 Typhon. Typhon was a missile system developed by the United States Navy in the late 1950s, intended to serve as an integrated air-defense system for Navy fleets. Consisting of the SAM-N-8 Typhon LR, later designated RIM-50A, and the SAM-N-9 Typhon MR, later RIM-55A, paired with the AN/SPG-59 radar system, the cost of the Typhon system ...

  9. Wayne E. Meyer - Wikipedia

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    Meyer was enrolled in the university's Engineering School as his primary duty. He completed eight semesters towards his bachelor's degree on February 1, 1946. Later that month the Navy ordered the remainder of that Naval Unit (only 35 out of approximately 500 originally) to be commissioned as Ensign USNR, and the university awarded him a B.S ...