What is "gyroscopes"

Usage examples of "gyroscopes".

The missile gyroscopes Iraq illegally acquired in 1995 came from Russian submarine-launched nuclear-armed ballistic missiles, which strongly suggests that the Russian government too has been at least cavalier about illegal arms exports to Iraq.

The thin, high whine of the Mannschenn Drive Unit deepened as the spinning, precessing gyroscopes slowed to a halt, and as they did so there came the nauseating dizziness of temporal disorientation.

With efficient, housekeeperly movements he took out a bottle of Pinchbottle Haig, another of I.

Fifty years ago, science fiction writers went into painstaking detail to show the reader that gyroscopes really could be used to maneuver a spacecraft on its way to the moon.

In December 1995, Jordan intercepted 115 missile gyroscopes and material for making chemical weapons being smuggled to Iraq.

His fingers played over the controls and the directional gyroscopes began to spin, and the hull turned about them.

She was out and clear now, out and clear, and Grimes cut both inertial and reaction drives, used his gyroscopes to swing the sharp prow of the ship on to the target star, the Doncaster sun, brought that far distant speck of luminosity into the exact centre of his spiderweb sights.

Drive faded to a barely audible hum, then died as the tumbling, ever-precessing gyroscopes slowed to a halt.