Then he looked at the infrared radar, sounding the layers of atmosphere beneath him knew how badly his eyes had been deceived.

It showed up clearly on the infrared radar, which also reported that it contained a vast array of complex carbon compounds, as well as the usual hydrogen, helium, and ammonia.

It features forward-looking infrared radar (FLIR), daylight TV, spotter scope, and laser range- finder.

Roughly half of the 160th's choppers are customized with infrared radar, electronic encoding devices, sidemounted miniguns and rockets and special tail rotors that cut noise level by up to 70 percent.

He leaned over his shoulder to scrutinize the forward-looking infrared radar.

Without infrared and side-looking radar, almost anything could remain hidden in the deeper ravines.

Autonomous GPS and inertial navigation, autonomous target acquisition, autonomous millimeter-wave radar terminal guidance or imaging infrared terminal sensor with manual steering, with images fed back to us by satellite.

Operating in the dark, using infrared radars and night-vision goggles, the boat captains searched for suspicious-looking tugs and dhows, circling them like police officers looking for fugitives in abandoned cars.

By midnight Friday, Lieutenant Shallman said, 2,000 feet of containment booms had encircled the oil slick, directed into place with the aid of infrared radar aboard Coast Guard helicopters.

The computer would replace three on the F-16 now and would allow the addition of new avionics systems, including forward-looking infrared radar, more easily.