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Carrier Strike. Carrier Strike: South Pacific 1942-44 is a 1992 computer wargame designed by Gary Grigsby and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. It is a successor to Grigsby's earlier title Carrier Force.

Gameplay
Set in World War II, Carrier Strike is a computer wargame that simulates battles in the Pacific Theater between the Allies and Imperial Japan.

Development
Carrier Strike was designed by Gary Grigsby for Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI). It began development as "an offshoot" of Gary Grigsby's Pacific War, which was in production at the time; the initial version of Carrier Strike was made during a week of free time on that project. Grigsby explained that Carrier Strike was his way of revisiting his early game Carrier Force (1983). He told Electronic Games, "I liked the subject matter and, given the evolution in computer capability and my programming skills, I wanted to refine it."

Carrier Strike was developed with a modified version of the game engine from Grigsby's games Second Front: Germany Turns East and Western Front. He noted that the biggest challenge during production was adapting the games' interface to the new setting, and that the subsequent flight-deck interface originated from "a bull session at SSI". For the game's artificial intelligence (AI), he said that the subject matter made coding relatively simple, and that he had avoided letting the AI "cheat" in ways that many of his previous games had not. The score for Carrier Strike was composed by Donald Griffin of Computer Music Consulting.

Carrier Strike was launched in 1992, prior to Pacific War. Grigsby and SSI followed the game with the Carrier Strike Expansion Disk, which alters Carrier Strikes gameplay mechanics and adds new playable battles. Unlike the original game's retail release, it was launched via mail order.

Reception

According to M. Evan Brooks of Computer Gaming World, Carrier Strike had reached sales of 15,000 copies by September 1992. The game was released in competition with Carriers at War by Strategic Studies Group, a game whose highly-anticipated status drew more attention toward Carrier Strike, Computer Gaming Worlds Alan Emrich argued.

Emrich offered Carrier Strike a positive review, and Computer Gaming World nominated the game, alongside Grigsby's Western Front, for its "Wargame of the Year" prize. William R. Trotter of Game Player's PC Entertainment called it an "engrossing and handsome simulation" that he "recommend[ed] ... most enthusiastically".

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1992 video games
Computer wargames
DOS games
DOS-only games
Naval video games
Pacific War video games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Oceania
Video games set in Papua New Guinea
Video games set in the Solomon Islands
Video games set in the United States
Martha Salcudean. Martha Sălcudean (née Abel; 1934 – 17 July 2019) was an internationally recognised expert in computational fluid dynamics. She was Canada's first female head of a university engineering department.

Salcudean was born in 1934 in Cluj, Romania, into a Jewish family. She survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and decades living under totalitarian regimes before she moved to Canada in 1976. Salcudean was a recipient of several provincial and national engineering awards in Canada.

Salcudean died on 17 July 2019.

Education 
Before moving to Canada, Salcudean was educated in Romania where she obtained Bachelor's and post-graduate degrees in mechanical engineering; her undergraduate degree was from the Cluj Polytechnic Institute.

Professional life 
Salcudean was a professor at the University of Ottawa for nine years before moving to the University of British Columbia (UBC), where she served as the first female head of a Canadian university's engineering department.

Salcudean is greatly respected in the areas of computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, and she received several awards including the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation, the Engineering Institute of Canada's Julian C. Smith Medal for “Achievement in the Development of Canada”, APEG BC's Meritorious Achievement Award, and the National Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize in Engineering.

Salcudean was awarded the Order of British Columbia in 1998 and became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004.  She also received honorary doctorates from the University of Ottawa, University of Waterloo and UBC, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.

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1934 births
2019 deaths
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors
Scientists from Cluj-Napoca
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca alumni
Romanian Jews
Romanian emigrants to Canada
Academic staff of the University of Ottawa
Romanian women physicists
Romanian physicists
RMAF Kuantan Air Base. RMAF Kuantan () is an airbase of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (). It is located in Kuantan, Pahang in Peninsular Malaysia. It shares the runway and other facilities with Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Airport.

History

RMAF Kuantan was established on 24 June 1968. Its early squadrons consisted of No. 3 Squadron and No. 9 Squadron that flew Canadair CL-41G Tebuan jet trainers. In 1985 the CL-41G Tebuans were replaced by Douglas A-4 Skyhawks and BAE Systems Hawks. In 1995, the RMAF received Russian-made Mikoyan MiG-29s, which are based at Kuantan and operated by No. 17 Squadron and No. 19 Squadron. Other than being a base for fixed-wing aircraft, RMAF Kuantan is also a base for helicopters such as the Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King and Eurocopter EC725. The ATSC MiG Technical Centre, which is the company responsible for providing maintenance for the Mikoyan MiG-29s, is also located on the base.

Squadrons assigned

Main Squadron

Training Squadron

See also

 Royal Malaysian Air Force bases
 List of airports in Malaysia

References

Airports in Pahang
Kuantan
Royal Air Force stations of World War II in British Malaya
Can Tho–Ca Mau Expressway. The Can Tho–Ca Mau Expressway () is a planned expressway in Vietnam. It will connect the Mekong Delta cities Cần Thơ and Cà Mau and is the southernmost portion of the North–South Expressway East.

From 2015 to 2021 the route was planned as CT.19; it was merged into the North–South Expressway East in 2022.

Development
The route yet to be built has been divided into two sections, totaling  by the Ministry of Transport. The total development cost is estimated at VND47 trillion (US$2 billion). This was later reduced to VND42 trillion, as a detour passing Sóc Trăng was scrapped. Construction is planned to start by 2025 and to be completed before 2030. The Cần Thơ–Bạc Liêu section will be financed directly using public funds. The Bạc Liêu-Cà Mau section will be financed by public–private partnership.

References

Expressways in Vietnam
Ellen Arruda. Ellen Marie Arruda is an American mechanical engineer known for her research on the mechanical properties of polymers and on tissue engineering, with applications including the design of improved football helmets, artificial tooth enamel that can withstand high-shock and high-vibration environments, and nanolayered composite materials that are lightweight, as strong as steel, and transparent. The Arruda–Boyce model for the behavior of rubber-like polymers is named for her and her doctoral advisor Mary Cunningham Boyce, with whom she published it in 1993. She is Maria Comninou Collegiate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Tim Manganello / Borg Warner Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Education and career
Arruda earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 1985 and 1988, and completed a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. Her dissertation, Characterization of the Strain Hardening Response of Amorphous Polymers, was supervised by Mary Cunningham Boyce.

She joined the University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering as an assistant professor in 1992, became a full professor in 2005, and added an affiliation as a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2009.

Recognition
Arruda was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Society of Engineering Science in 2008, and of the American Academy of Mechanics in 2010. She was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 "for pioneering research in polymer and tissue mechanics and their application in innovative commercial products".

She was the 2018 winner of the James R. Rice Medal of the Society of Engineering Science, "for substantial contributions to the mechanics of engineering polymers and biological materials, with both fundamental and applied impact", the 2019 winner of the Nadai Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the 2023 winner of the American Society of Biomechanics Borelli award which recognizes outstanding career accomplishment.

References

External links
Home page
Lab page

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American mechanical engineers
21st-century American women engineers
21st-century American engineers
Penn State College of Engineering alumni
MIT School of Engineering alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American women academics
USS Constellation (FFG-62). USS Constellation (FFG-62) will be the lead ship of the  of guided-missile frigates and the fifth ship in the United States Navy bearing this name. She is named in honor of the first USS Constellation, one of the original six frigates of the United States Navy, which was named for the constellation of stars on the flag of the United States. The ship will be sponsored by Melissa Braithwaite, the wife of Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite.

Construction of Constellation began on 31 August 2022 and the keel was laid on 12 April 2024. She was originally expected to enter service in 2026, but due to design changes, and projected service life limitations, she is not expected to be delivered until 2029.

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Constellation-class frigates
Proposed ships of the United States Navy
Muhammad Emdad-Ul-Bari. Muhammad Emdad-Ul-Bari OSP, ndc, psc, te is a retired major general of the Bangladesh Army and incumbent chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. He served as Colonel Commandant of Signal Corps.

Education and training 
Major General Emdad-Ul-Bari holds Master of Defence Studies, Bachelor of Engineering (Telecom), and Bachelor of Science degrees. He is also a graduate of National Defence College, Mirpur; Collège Interarmées de Défense (L'École de Guerre), Paris; and Defence Services Command and Staff College, Mirpur.He did his MBA from IBA, Dhaka University. He underwent various military courses also in China, Pakistan, and UK.

Career
Bari was the chairperson of Dhaka Cantonment Girls' Public School & College in 2013.

Bari served as the director general for system and services at Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission in 2017.

Bari was appointed vice chancellor of Bangladesh University of Professionals on 15 February 2018. He had served as an observer in MONUSCO. He was replaced by Major General Ataul Hakim Sarwar Hasan as vice chancellor of Bangladesh University of Professionals. Until retirement he was Director General of BIISS.

On 10 September 2024, he has been appointed as chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission.

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Living people
Bangladesh Army generals
Vice-chancellors of Bangladesh University of Professionals
1965 births
Madaswamy S. Muthu. M.S. Muthu (born 20 July 1981) is a Pharmaceutical engineer, Scientist, Inventor and one of the twenty Institute Professors at the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. He is a researcher in the fields of nanomedicine, targeted drug delivery, and in theranostics nanomedicine for imaging and therapy.

Background and personal life 
Dr. Muthu completed his Ph.D. research work under the supervision of Prof. Sanjay Singh from the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India. He has done his post-doctoral research in cancer nanotechnology under the supervision of Prof. Feng Si-Shen from the National University of Singapore in 2010 & 2014 (2yrs). Dr. Muthu is a Professor of Pharmaceutics in the Department of Pharmaceutical Engineering & Technology, IIT(BHU).

Contributions to nanomedicine and drug delivery 
He is a widely recognized and cited researcher in drug delivery especially in the fields of nanotechnology and theranostics. He has published more than 120 research articles in peer-reviewed national and international journals. His research work is mainly focused on targeted nanomedicine and/or nanotheranostic drug delivery of anti-cancer agents, antipsychotics, antithrombotics and antimicrobials. He is an editor in chief for the international peer-reviewed journal ''Research & Reviews: Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicological Studies''. Additionally, he is the editorial board member of the "Diagnostics and Therapeutics" Journal published by Luminescience press is based in Hong Kong with offices in Wuhan and Xi’an, China. He is among the top 2% scientist globally, list compiled by the Stanford University. His profile has been listed at the 6th rank in IIT BHU as per Adscientific index.

Awards and honors 
Muthu received various scientific awards from government and non-government organization including the BOYSCAST Fellowship, Academic Excellence Award, CREST Award, IMS-Research Publication Award, BHU Vice-Chancellor's Medical Research Award, International Faculty Award, and Best Young Scientist Award. He is the recipient of the BIRAC-DBT-Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Award in 2017, from the President of India for advancing nanomedicine research. His research work has secured Rs. 2.19 crores funds from various government funding agencies, which includes SERB, DST, DBT, ICMR, and BIRAC. He has been elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India in 2019. Additionally, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Recently, he has developed targeted nanomedicine for breast cancer therapy with reduced systemic toxicity, which has successfully demonstrated its efficacy in preclinical studies.

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1981 births
Living people
21st-century Indian scientists
Academic staff of the Indian Institute of Science
Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi alumni
Indian nanotechnologists
Nanomedicine
National University of Singapore alumni
Theranostics
2,6-Dichloroquinone-4-chloroimide. 2,6-Dichloroquinone-4-chloroimide (Gibbs reagent) is an organic compound used as an colorimetric indicator to detect phenolic compounds. Upon reaction with phenol itself, 2,6-dichlorophenolindophenol is formed, a chemical that is used as a redox indicator.

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Chlorimides
Quinones
Organochlorides
German space programme. The German space programme is the set of projects funded by the government of Germany for the exploration and use of outer space. The space programme is run by the German Aerospace Center, who conduct research, plan, and implement the programme on behalf of the German federal government.

History

While the idea of spaceflight had been explored by novels before, Hermann Oberth’s book  was influential in propagating the idea of space flight. The book eventually inspired the establishment of the  (Society for Space Travel) in 1927, where amateur rocket scientists collaborated to advance the field of liquid-fueled rocketry. Between the 1930s and 1940s, Nazi Germany researched and built operational ballistic missiles capable of suborbital spaceflight.

Organisations

German Aerospace Center

Institute of Space Propulsion

Mission control centres

Columbus Control Centre

European Space Operations Centre

German Space Operations Center

Astronauts

As of 2024, twelve Germans have been in space. The first German, and only East German, in space was Sigmund Jähn in 1978. Three astronauts – Ulf Merbold, Reinhard Furrer and Ernst Messerschmid – represented West Germany during the time of divided Germany. Merbold made two other spaceflights after Germany was reunified in 1990. He is the only German to have been in space three times. 

Thomas Reiter, Alexander Gerst, and Mathias Maurer have made long-term spaceflights. The other five astronauts are Klaus-Dietrich Flade, Hans Schlegel, Ulrich Walter, Reinhold Ewald, and Gerhard Thiele.

Rockets

V-2

TEXUS

Liquid fly-back booster

SpaceLiner

RETALT

Missions operated by Germany

MW 18014

Helios

STS-61-A

STS-55

SAMPEX

ABRIXAS

DLR-Tubsat

TerraSAR-X

Columbus

Proposed missions

Baden-Württemberg 1

LEO

See also

Notes

References

Sources

External links
 German technology in 1969
 German technology and the Moon October 2019

 
Science and technology in Germany
Muravey VTS. Muravey VTS (, abbreviated as Vnutrizavodskoe Transport Sredstvo) is an electric truck with a cabin produced by Tulamashzavod.

History
For the first time, the development of a new model after the cessation of production in 1995 of cargo scooters Muravey was announced in 2016. In 2017, the first prototype was assembled at the plant.

In May 2020, sales of the truck started with a selling price of 1.25 million rubles.

Design and characteristics
The Muravey VTS is designed for the transportation of goods up to 1 ton in production and storage areas with a hard and even surface on the territory of organizations and industrial bases without the right to leave on public roads.

Two models are presented, differing only in the type of electric drive:

VTS-1 - drive from a diesel generator set
VTS-2 - drive from a storage battery

The cabin is double, made of fiberglass. Lead-acid storage battery of 48 volts with a capacity of 350 A · h. The steering is a self-compensating single-stage rack. Spring suspension. Hydraulic brakes, disc / drum. Wheels with dimensions 175 / 70R13. Seats are adjustable, moisture resistant, gray. Instrument cluster with battery indicator, speedometer, odometer. Power reserve: empty up to 90 km; loaded - up to 70 km. 1 year factory warranty.

An army version of the platform with an installed small-caliber cannon has been developed.

References

Electric trucks
Pickup trucks
Vehicles introduced in 2020
Tulamashzavod
General Electric Manufacturing Company Limited. General Electric Manufacturing Company Limited () is a Bangladesh government owned company that manufactures electric transformers. Eng. Ashraful Islam is the managing director of the company. It is a subsidiary of Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation.

History
General Electric Manufacturing Company Limited was established in 1972 by the government of Bangladesh. It was built with technical assistance of M/s. Promash Export, a company of the Soviet Union, to manufacture electric equipment like power transformers and completed in 1978. It was transformed into a limited company in 1979. It is located in Patenga, Chittagong. It owns the largest transformer factory in Bangladesh.

In March 2019, the company signed an agreement with Engineering Dimension, a Saudi Arabian company, worth 35 million taka.

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1972 establishments in Bangladesh
Manufacturing companies based in Chittagong
Government-owned companies of Bangladesh
Bridger Aerospace. Bridger Aerospace is an American aerospace company which provides aerial firefighting and wildfire management services. The company has supported firefighting efforts in 24 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.

In January 2023, Bridger went public via SPAC merger with a valuation of $869 million. The company has not been profitable since going public.

History 
The company was founded in 2014 by Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL who utilized airborne surveillance during his service. Initially, Sheehy operated one plane to assist ranchers with tracking their cattle from the air. He shifted the company's focus to aerial firefighting during the 2015 wildfire season.

In 2018, Bridger was one of four companies awarded a contract with the United States Department of the Interior to use drones in emergency situations, including during wildfires. It became the first private company to legally use drones for wildfire fighting during the Martin Fire in Nevada, mapping 435,000 acres of burned land in 11 flight runs.

By August 2019 the company had grown to a fleet of 20 aircraft and a staff of 100.

In March 2020, Bridger Aerospace offered its fleet to healthcare workers for moving supplies and patients as a response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The company also manufactured face shields that it donated to frontline workers and used its fleet to deliver other personal protection equipment to medical personnel throughout Montana.

Bridger was the launch customer for the De Havilland CL-415EAF Firefighting Aircraft.

In 2024, Tim Sheehy resigned as CEO to focus on his candidacy in the U.S. Senate election in Montana.

Operations
The company is headquartered in Belgrade, Montana and provides aerial firefighting services to government agencies, including the United States Forest Service, across the U.S. Its planes are used for fire suppression and it uses unmanned aerial vehicles to map and provide surveillance of fires. The drones provide fire crews with information including infrared imagery of active fires, and support communication with and tracking of firefighters on the ground.

Fleet
As of 2021, the company's fleet includes over 20 aircraft, including:

References

External links 

Wildfire prevention
Aerospace companies of the United States
Companies based in Montana
Aerial firefighting
Belgrade, Montana
Sten Luthander. Sten Åke Birger Luthander (December 8, 1905, in Silbodal in Värmland – February 13, 2000, at Lidingö) was a Swedish professor in aeronautics.

Education and career 
After studying at KTH Royal Institute of Technology 1925–1930, he was employed as an assistant to Ivar Malmer in aeronautical engineering (1930) and strength theory (1936) at KTH. He was head of department at the National Aeronautical Research Institute in 1940, and was appointed professor of aeronautical engineering at KTH in 1944. He was head of Saab AB's research department in Linköping 1947–1949. Retired from KTH 1972. In 1961 he started the consulting company LUTAB (Professor Sten Luthander Ingenjörsbyrå AB).

Awards 
In 1952 he was awarded the Swedish Aeronautical Society's Thulin Medal in gold.

Membership 
 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), 1956.

Family 
In his first marriage in 1940, Sten Luthander was married to the cellist Carin de Frumerie (1911–1974), who was the sister of Gunnar de Frumerie and later remarried Bellander. In his second marriage, he was married from 1960 until his death to Wiveca, born Hagenow. The daughter in the first marriage Eva Luthander (born 1944) is a pianist and has been employed as a senior lecturer at the Royal College of Music, Stockholm. Sten Luthander is buried in Lidingö Cemetery.

References 
 Sveriges dödbok 1901–2009, CD-ROM, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund 2008
 Swedish population (databases), DVD-ROM, National Archives ANSWER 2011

1905 births
2000 deaths
Aircraft designers
Aerodynamicists
Saab aircraft
Swedish civil engineers
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences