Until now, there have been only three illumination technologies: fire, from, first, torches, tallow and wax candles and, later, whale and kerosene oil lamps; electric incandescence, famously perfected in 1879; and electric-induced fluorescence, introduced in 1938 by General Electric.
Western experts agree that Macedonian troops need night-vision equipment, flak jackets, mine detection equipment, illumination rounds fired by artillery and communications equipment.
American Army Kiowa reconnaissance helicopters prowl the frontier, and American artillery batteries fire illumination rounds to light up the border for American patrols.
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THE roar of artillery goes on and on: every few minutes cannons fire illumination rounds into the air, lighting up the night sky beyond the checkpoints of the fledgling Afghan army.
In the mad, writhing illumination of a fire, they saw the origins and death, of dance, dissolution, and transcendence, of a human form.
"I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter".
The images were taken using two cameras within the IVVI (Intelligent Vehicle based on Visual Information) vehicle (Figure 27(a)): a pin-hole analog camera connected to a frame-grabber for the nocturnal illumination and a fire-wire camera for the diurnal use.
But American troops are using their 155-millimeter guns to fire special illumination rounds to light up the wild boundary region.
The role of the battery was to fire an illumination round to mark the target for Harrier jets, which would mount a bombing attack, and then to fire a barrage against the enemy's air defenses to keep them from shooting down the Marine planes.
