radar blip

A generic term meaning variously a radar echo or radar response from an aircraft (ICAO). See echo.

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About 10 minutes later, the Caap air controller's radar blip showed the aircraft at 16 nautical miles south of San Jose.

Authorities continue search for missing Beechcraft plane

The air force took no action, saying the radar blip was not considered a security threat.

First lawsuit filed in Malaysia over MH370

The weapons officer of the Vincennes saw a radar blip headed straight toward his ship, and made a horrible mistake.

Analysis: Protecting civilian airliners from missile attacks

They told their Malaysian counterparts the "radar blip" had disappeared at a navigation point called BITOD about half way between Malaysia and Vietnam.

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 report confirmed that military radar tracked a plane

They also said it had taken time to verify that the radar blip being tracked was indeed MH370 because its main automated signalling systems had been disabled.

Malaysia under scrutiny as plane mystery drags on

A certain number of points are needed to get favours from various NPCs you have met such as hiding your radar blip from other players or calling in an airstrike on a target.

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A radar blip or a dark and dusty museum; it's up to us to choose the eventual metaphor.

Two minutes to midnight

Thanks to its marketing ability, Tempur-Pedic has transformed the specialty-mattress category from a radar blip into the fastest-growing segment of the business.

Tempur, Tempur

But, with a radar blip, TACAN lock, and three hours of gas, what was the hurry?

Stack the deck

US FIGHTER jets were scrambled and the White House was evacuated yesterday after a radar blip caused pandemonium.

Cheney flees a false alarm

It took analysts 12 minutes to identify the radar blip as harmless and order a stand-down of defences.

The malnourished military: Russia's military is short of everything - food, finance, and fire-power

It may be a statistical anomaly, but it also may be an early radar blip in support of the theory that in a world where knowledge is beginning to outpace assembly machines as the most important kind of capital, the companies that can assemble and keep together teams of the brightest, best-trained people will outperform in the long run.

A human advantage

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