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Record 1 2021-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Explosives and Pyrotechnical Materials (Industries)
  • CBRNE Weapons
CONT

An IED [improvised explosive device] is a bomb fabricated in an "improvised" manner designed to destroy or incapacitate military personnel or civilians. The bomb itself may be a conventional military grade weapon, or an assortment of explosive components such as gasoline or agricultural fertilizer...

OBS

explosive component: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • explosive components

French

Domaine(s)
  • Explosifs et artifices (Industries)
  • Armes CBRNE
CONT

L'usine [de l'entrepreneur français] est spécialisée dans la fabrication de la mélinite et de l'acide picrique qui sont des constituants explosifs utilisés pour la conception des obus.

OBS

composant explosif; constituant explosif : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • composants explosifs
  • constituants explosifs

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Organization
CONT

... form of military commission formerly used in the [United States(U. S.) ] and British armies. Under the system in which an officer was customarily promoted within his regiment or corps, a brevet conferred upon him a rank in the army at large higher than that held in his corps. Frequently it carried with it the pay, right to command, and uniform of the higher grade. In the United States especially, brevet rank was widely bestowed as a reward for outstanding service; it became the subject of extensive confusion and controversy during the American Civil War. After 1865, U. S. brevet rank was gradually stripped of its benefits, and officers were rewarded instead by decorations.

OBS

Brevet ranks or similar commissions were used in other militaries and did not always confer the authority, precedence or pay of the higher rank.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation militaire

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organización militar
CONT

[...] se confirió a Amherst el grado temporal de mayor general en América, recibiendo el encargo concreto de apoderarse del fuerte francés existente en Louisbourg, en la isla de Cabo Bretón.

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Record 3 - external organization data 2005-08-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nuclear Fission Reactors
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

The world's first commercial reactor, Calder Hall in the U. K., made military grade plutonium as well as electricity. The combination of uranium dioxide(UO2) for fissile material and zircaloy for sheathing and structural parts is the most common choice for commercial power reactors world wide.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réacteurs nucléaires de fission
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
CONT

Le premier réacteur commercial au monde, Calder Hall au Royaume-Uni, utilisait du plutonium de type militaire ainsi que de l'électricité. La combinaison du dioxyde d'uranium (UO2) comme matière fissile et du zircaloy pour les gaines et les éléments de structure est le choix le plus répandu pour les réacteurs de puissance commerciaux.

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Field Artillery
OBS

The aim of the Soldier Apprentice Programme is to train selected young men as soldier tradesmen and to provide them with a requisite academic background to enable them to advance to senior non-commissioned ranks in the CA(R). Apprentices are selected from young men with Grade 8 education who have attained their 16th but not their 17th birthday and are enrolled for seven years, with the option of release on completion of fives years of service. On graduation from apprentice training, consisting of two years of academic, military and trades training at corps schools, they are posted to units of their corps and become serving soldiers.

OBS

This CF programme existed in the sixties.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Artillerie de campagne
OBS

Équivalent proposé par un major (ancien du 22e Régiment).

OBS

Le programme n'existe pas en français.

Spanish

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