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	Armed Forces - r4a2 - RAF Personnel and Training Command - Operational Conversion Unit (OCU)
		RAF Operational Conversion Units (OCUs) (As at 1 April 2006)
		In the majority of cases this reserve squadron is the Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) for the particular aircraft type and the reserve squadron has a mobilisation role.
		The organisation of an OCU is obviously tailored to fit the size of the aircraft fleet being supported.
	www.armedforces.co.uk /raf/listings/l0053.html (183 words)

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		While feeding the overload under these circumstances the inverter operates in a current-limit mode and its output voltage may be reduced deliberately, but in most cases this is preferable to total power loss and of course conditions will return to normal if the overload is cleared during the allotted time.
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	NWC Review, Summer 2001: Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Under this scenario, the United Kingdom and France are perceived as being unlikely to embark upon independent naval operations but as instead contributing to task forces dominated by the U.S. Navy, which in turn would provide the aviation assets.
		It is not widely known, but some French units in Bosnia refused to speak anything other than French to their colleagues (this from a conversation between the author and a British officer who served in Bosnia).
		Operations in such cases, though, are unlikely to take the form of the 1970s and 1980s, when Harrier GR 3s operated from forest clearings using short runways of pierced steel planking, or from shopping-mall car parks.
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	CMS—Carbon Conversion Fuel Cell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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		Cooper is thinking ahead to the day when direct carbon conversion units could be used to generate electric power for the grid.
	www-cms.llnl.gov /s-t/carbon_con.html (4013 words)

	Portfolio: Democratic People's Republic of Korea Air Force
		The DPRKAF operates 29 MiG-29s, 35 MiG-25MLs, 120 MiG-21PF/PFM, 40 J-6s, roughly 100 J-6s, 100 MiG-15s, and 100 J-5s in intercept units.
		Operational Conversional units are also equipped with 5 MiG-29UBs, 10 MiG-23UBs, 20 MiG-21Us, 30 MiG-15UTI (a large part of which is also used by the Air Force Academy), and 25 FT-5s.
		On the tactical level the DPRKAF is organized into divisions, each of which includes flying units organized in regiments of three squadrons (with at least one squadron for operational conversion), regiments of air-defense units, a radar regiment, communications regiment, as well as a battalion each of engineers, guards, and NBC-trained troops.
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	Nato Operations After Arms Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Conversely, the NATO position was at least partially based on its own use of trainers in ground attack and air-to-air roles (aircraft such as the Royal Air Force's Hawk).
		Conversely, some NATO nations may choose to leave a fairly robust (within CFE limits) air force structure intact, relying upon it to buttress smaller, more mobile, ground forces and to cover the many possible permutations of conflict that may arise in a rapidly changing Europe.
		The first of these, the air operation, was to be carried out primarily by the Legnica, Vinnitsa, and parts of the Smolensk air armies of the Supreme High Command in conjunction with FA and SNA units, as well as surface-to-surface missile (SSM) units, heliborne raiding parties, and special operations (Spetsnaz) units.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/2sum90.html (8025 words)

	Helicopter Database
		Rotary wing operations began on 29 Aug 1964 when it was reformed from 228 Squadron, and took over its Whirlwind HAR.10 in the SAR role at RAF Leconfield.
		It disbanded as a helicopter unit in Northern Ireland in Apr 2002 and since Jul 2002 operates as 72(R) Squadron, part of 1 FTS at RAF Linton-on-Ouse (EGXU) with the Tucano.
		Its helicopter operations began briefly at RAF Khormaksar with the Sycamore HR.14 between Dec 1956 and May 1957, when it reverted to a fixed wing transport and communications role, disbanding with Andover C.1s at RAF Muharraq on 1 Oct 1971.
	www.helis.com /database?menu=71&tfabrn=22&tmodn=241 (1974 words)

	No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit
		We run Operational Conversion Courses for new pilots to the Hornet, Operational Refresher Courses for former Hornet pilots returning to the aircraft, and Fighter Combat Instructor Courses to provide postgraduate qualifications for selected aircrew.
		No.2(F) Operational Training Unit was formed at Port Pirie, SA, on 6 April 1942, and operated initially with Wirraways and Fairey Battles.
		At the conclusion of the Pacific War, the unit was converted to a care and maintenance unit; final disbandment came on 25 March 1947.
	www.defence.gov.au /raaf/organisation/info_on/units/2ocu/index.htm (578 words)

	Casino News & Articles - October 13, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	RAF reserve pilots
		In the rear is Marc, an experienced instructor and a part-time reserve pilot on the Harrier Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) at RAF Wittering in Lincolnshire.
		Unlike the US Air Force, whose part-time reservists and Air National Guard pilots man some 50 front-line combat aircraft units, operational RAF Harrier squadrons that are part of the UK Joint Force Harrier, require a higher degree of proficiency and are not manned by reservists.
		Elements of the four operational RAF Harrier squadrons of carrier-capable Joint Force Harrier based at nearby RAF Cottesmore, may be deployed to the middle east.
	www.global-defence.com /2003/pilot_trng03.htm (843 words)

	Pilot Training (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Higher graded pilots are then placed in Operational Conversion Units, where they learn to master the front-line combat aircraft of the PAF.
		As the pilot grows in service and experience, he may be selected for conversion onto the Mirage (No.22 Squardon, PAF Masroor) or the F-16 aircraft (No.11 squardon, PAF Sargodha), purely on merit under a well-defined criteria.
		Officers who are suspended from the FCU, OCU, or from a fighter squardon are eligible for flying duties on Transport, LCA and helicopters.
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	news.mod.uk - Speeches & Statements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The UK is a full partner with the United States in the development of this aircraft.
		The Strategic Defence Review showed how the type of operations that the Armed Forces would be engaged on in the future was markedly different from the predictable environment of the Cold War.
		I am very conscious that, wherever the project risk lies, the operational risk - that equipment is not on time or up to scratch - will always lie with the Armed Forces, and it is that risk which I am most at pains to minimise.
	news.mod.uk /news/press/news_speech.asp?newsItem_id=2070 (5270 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 21 Jan 2003 (pt 2)
		It is estimated that around 180 RN personnel and their equipment were assisting the United Kingdom community at the height of the foot-and-mouth crisis.
		Units are required to carry out routine inspections at regular intervals and prior to operations.
		HMS Sovereign has recently completed a long period of maintenance and is currently undertaking the training required, which will return her to a full operational state of readiness.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030121/text/30121w02.htm (1230 words)

	General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcon for the Netherlands
		This unit handled conversion of Dutch pilots to the F-16 until it was deactivated in March of 1986.
		The first KLu F-16 unit to achieve operational capability was 322 Squadron, based at Leeuwarden, which was declared operational in December of 1979.
		The training unit, 316 Squadron, at Eindhoven was deactivated in April 1994 and its operational conversion task was turned over to 313 Squadron at Twenthe.
	home.att.net /~jbaugher4/f16_14.html (1410 words)

	United Kingdom - Strategic Defence Review - Supporting Essays - Essay 6
		We then considered the levels of readiness applicable to different sorts of operation: that is, the notice period within which units must be ready to deploy from their bases or other designated areas.
		The possibility that some operations will be enduring (as in Cyprus, where we have taken part in UNFICYP since 1964, and more recently in Bosnia) has a significant impact on total force structure, as there must be sufficient units to be able to provide for the rotation of those actually deployed at any one time.
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	Sim-Outhouse - Your One-Stop Flight Simulation Mall - de_havilland_vampire
		The fourth conversion, with revised main intakes, served as the prototype for the Australian built Mk 30.
		The fuselage was widened and lengthened to accommodate pilot and navigator and the tailplane was extended beyond the fins and rudders to compensate.
		Most operational units employed one or two, but the type was notable for introducing jet training before qualification.
	www.sim-outhouse.com /index.php?loc=articles&page=de_havilland_vampire (2121 words)

	V-2
		These firing units had to move away from the Russian advance to Heidekraut in August 1944, and a further 246 documented missiles were fired from that location.
		V-2 operational units are said variously to have launched between 2,970 and 3,280 missiles between September 1944 and April 1945.
		Unit records for December 1944 to February 1945 show 12% of the missiles received by the units were rejected on the spot as unsuitable for firing.
	www.astronautix.com /lvs/v2.htm (5483 words)

	Esfahan / Isfahan - Iran Special Weapons Facilities
		With the exception of the studies on uranium metal conversion and pulse columns, the small scale conversion activities started in the early to mid-1980s and continued for several years.
		The Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) is a facility declared to the IAEA in 2000 and currently under construction at Esfahan.
		The main operational facilities for the army's aviation units are located at Esfahan, presumably at Khatamin Air Base northeast of the city.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/iran/esfahan.htm (3954 words)

	PAF Base Mianwali (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In November 75, No.1 Fighter Conversion Unit was shifted from PAF Base Masroor to Mianwali on a permanent basis and equipped with the Chinese FT-5 (Mig-17T) aircraft.
		The squadron was assigned the task of carrying out operational conversion of the graduates from No I FCU on their first single-seat fighter.
		Several additional operational units and facilities have been added to the base during the 1980's.
	www.pafmuseum.com.pk /contents/BaseMN.htm (532 words)

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		By convention, the day is the smallest calendrical unit of time; the measurement of fractions of a day is classified as timekeeping.
		Use of the Gregorian calendar in the United States stems from an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1751, which specified use of the Gregorian calendar in England and its colonies.
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	House of Commons - Defence - Minutes of Evidence
		In considering our operational capability we have to think not just of the aircraft but of the people, the crews, because highly trained, highly skilled crews are just as important at delivering the operational capability as the aircraft and systems themselves are.
		There is a distinct difference between the size of force you are going to employ on an operation and the total fleet size you will need over a very long period of years to generate the flying hours to train the crews.
		The reduction in the size of the weapon bay means that it will not be able to house the 2,000lb class of weapon internally in the weapon bay but it could, of course, still carry it externally.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmdfence/1031/4102005.htm (1955 words)

	ETS-News
		The two main establishments catering for stage three are the MiG Operational Flying Training Unit at Tezpur and the Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) at Chabua.
		Because of the large intake some are sent to the other frontline MiG-21 squadrons participating in the operational conversion programme.
		Its excellent performance enables it to operate from the most demanding of high altitude airfields and today is in service with seven units of the IAF.
	www.ets-news.com /third.php?id=20 (1379 words)

	ADF Serials Newsletter May 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This unit of three squadrons (7th, 8th and 9th PS) was the 49th Pursuit Group, the first whole fighter group to be deployed since the commencement of hostilities to the pacific theatre.
		In the RAAF operational context, an effort was made to produce a periodical Information Fighter Bulletin, referring to fighter tactics, both enemy and successful Allied and other important details that came to light, was being circulated from mid 1942.
		At this time, the loss rate from operations and from operational conversion Units had reach a number that was deemed, even by the then considered acceptable percentage, as being abnormally high.
	www.adf-serials.com /newsletter/news0503.shtml (4474 words)

	208 Squadron History - Advanced Flying Training - Into The New Millennium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The gloom was finally lifted, however, as it was announced that the RAF's fast jet training system was to be revised and the numbers of several distinguished squadrons were to be allocated to Hawk units, which would now be Reserve squadrons, having a full battle role in the event of any major emergency.
		They would be known as (R) Squadrons, rather than just 'shadow' squadrons, as had been the practice in many operational conversion units previously.
		All trainee pilots destined for the front line units of both the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force can look back on the Squadron's highly creditable past and know that they will take a part of that spirit and ethos forward with them in their role as the combat pilots of the future.
	www.rafvalley.org /Flying/208sqn/208Sqn_New_Millennium.htm (285 words)

	RAF Coningsby - United Kingdom Nuclear Forces
		Coningsby became the first RAF Station to operate the Air Defence Variant of the Tornado, the major type still based there today.
		Units based at Coningsby are No 5 Squadron with 12 Tornado F3s, No 56(Reserve) Squadron, the Tornado F3 Operational Conversion Unit with 19 Tornado F3s.
		In addition, the Tornado F3 Operational Evaluation Unit flies 3 Tornado F3s, and the world-famous Battle of Britain Memorial Flight operates 5 Spitfires of various Marks, the only flying Lancaster in Europe, two Hurricanes, a Dakota and two Chipmunks.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/uk/raf_coningsby.htm (175 words)

	ROYAL AIR FORCE FLYING TRAINING AND SUPPORT UNITS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first complete listing of the many thousands of flying training and support units of the RAF and its predecessor the Royal Flying Corps from 1912 to the present day.
		Many years of research have gone into this coverage of such units as Flying Training Schools, Operational Training Units, Conversion Units, Operational Conversion Units, World War I Training Squadrons and numbered flights.
		Lesser known units include Maintenance Units, Repair & Servicing Units, Air Stores Parks, Staging Posts and numbered landing grounds in the UK, 2nd TAF and the Middle East.
	www.relayer.freeserve.co.uk /hamlin/raft.html (149 words)

	Richard's history Page 2
		The Prentice was effectively a development of the Proctor, and the Prentice was followed by the Provost, and shortly after by the Jet Provost which quickly became the only trainer the RAF used, apart from the Operational Conversion Units which took qualified pilots and gave them experience in combat aircraft.
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