K-18 sight
K-18 sight
[′kā ¦ā‚tēn ‚sīt] (ordnance)
A gyroscopic computing gunsight employing an electrical range-control system.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
?
All earlier production versions of the aircraft had been equipped with the K-18 sight. The last twenty-four aircraft of this production run were equipped with the A-1C(M) gunsight, coupled to an improved ranging radar, the General Electric built AN/APG-30 installed in the nose above the intake.
As a result, many of them favored the clearly inferior, but dependable, K-18 sight, which continued in general use until the arrival of the F-86E, beginning in June 1951.
The first Sabres to arrive in Korea were the F-86A models, equipped with K-18 sights. These sights were soon found to be unsuited for the high-speed combat that ensued when MiG-15s were engaged.
Encyclopedia browser
?
- ▲
- K electron
- K factor
- K feldspar
- K gun
- K indicator
- K meson
- K Monel
- K Potassium
- K ratio
- K scan
- K scope
- K selection
- K shell
- K star
- K stars
- K theory
- K transfer
- K truss
- K virus
- K&R
- K&R C
- K. R. Narayanan
- K/L ratio
- K10
- K-14 sight
- K-18 sight
- K2
- K5
- K56flex
- K6
- K7
- K8
- K9
- kA
- K-A age
- Ka band
- K-A decay
- KA9Q
- Kaaba
- Kaakhka
- Kaamatan Festival
- Kaarel Ird
- Kaarel Iukhanovich Karm
- Kaarel Karm
- Kaarel Kirillovich Ird
- Kaarel Liimand
- Kaarle Leopold Krohn
- Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg
- Kaatra Kössi
- kaavie
- Kab Ibn Zuhayr
- ▼
Full browser
?
- ▲
- K(lysine) acetyltransferase 6B
- K(lysine) acetyltransferase 7
- K(lysine) acetyltransferase 8
- K+
- K+
- K+
- K+
- K+-ATPase
- K+-Transporter Populus Tremula
- K+Care ET
- K+Care ET
- K+Care ET
- K+Care ET
- K, km
- K, km
- K, km
- K, km
- K-10
- K-12
- K-12 Energy Education Program
- K-12 School
- K-12 School
- K-12 School
- K-12 School
- K-12 schools
- K-12 schools
- K-12 schools
- K-12 schools
- K-12 Schools/Colleges Alliance for Distance Education
- K-14 sight
- K-18 sight
- K-2
- K-2
- K-2
- K-5
- K-54
- K-54
- K-54
- K-6
- K-7
- K-8
- K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook
- K-9
- K-9
- K-9 (police)
- K-9 (police)
- K-9 Unit
- K-9 Unit
- K-A
- K-A age
- K-A decay
- K-ABC
- K-ABC
- K-acetyltransferase 5
- K-Activated Hyperpolarization
- K-ALPHA-1
- K-Ar dating
- K-Ar dating
- K-Ar dating
- K-Area Reactor Seepage Basin
- K-ary Logical Topology Design
- ▼