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Meads (other)
Meads is a district of Eastbourne, East Sussex, England Meads may also refer to: * MEADS (Medium Extended Air Defense System) * Meads (surname) * Meads, Kentucky, United States * Meads Bay Pond, Anguilla * Meads Cup, New Zealand * Meads Peak, Antarctica See also * Mead (other) * Meade (other) * Meades (other) Meades is a surname. People with that name include: * Christopher Meades, Vancouver novelist * Jonathan Meades, English writer and broadcaster * Jonathan Meades (footballer), Welsh footballer See also * Mead (other) * Meade (disambig ... * Medes (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meads
The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is a ground-mobile air and missile defense system intended to replace the Patriot missile system through a NATO-managed development. The program is a development of the United States, Germany and Italy. MEADS is designed to address the shortcomings of fielded systems and to permit full interoperability between U.S. and allied forces. Germany chose MEADS to replace their MIM-104 Patriot systems in June 2015. Description MEADS provides ground-mobile air and missile defense with expanded coverage. The system provides enhanced force protection against a broad array of third-dimension threats. Improved interoperability, mobility, and full 360-degree defense capability against the evolving threat represent are key aspects. MEADS is the first air and missile defense (AMD) system that provides continuous on-the-move protection for maneuver forces. MEADS also provides area defense, homeland defense, and weighted asset protection. MEADS i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MEADS
The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is a ground-mobile air and missile defense system intended to replace the Patriot missile system through a NATO-managed development. The program is a development of the United States, Germany and Italy. MEADS is designed to address the shortcomings of fielded systems and to permit full interoperability between U.S. and allied forces. Germany chose MEADS to replace their MIM-104 Patriot systems in June 2015. Description MEADS provides ground-mobile air and missile defense with expanded coverage. The system provides enhanced force protection against a broad array of third-dimension threats. Improved interoperability, mobility, and full 360-degree defense capability against the evolving threat represent are key aspects. MEADS is the first air and missile defense (AMD) system that provides continuous on-the-move protection for maneuver forces. MEADS also provides area defense, homeland defense, and weighted asset protection. MEADS i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meads (surname)
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Meads is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Colin Meads (1936–2017), New Zealand rugby union footballer * Johnny Meads (born 1961), American football player * Stanley Meads (born 1938), New Zealand rugby union footballer * Tommy Meads (1900–1983), English footballer * Lloyd Meeds (1927–2005), American politician See also *Mead (surname) *Meade (surname) Meade is a surname, and may refer to: Actors *Ada Meade (1883-1965), American actress *Emily Meade (active from 2006), American actress *Garth Meade (1925–2002), South African comedian/actor, active in Australia since 1970 * Mary Meade (1923–20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meads, Kentucky
Meads is an unincorporated community in Boyd County, Kentucky, United States. It is located along the U.S. Highway 60 corridor south of Ashland. Meads is centered on the junction of U.S. Route 60, Kentucky Route 538 Kentucky Route 538 (KY 538) is a state highway in Boyd County, Kentucky that runs from U.S. Route 60 and Meade Springer Road west of Rockdale to U.S. Route 23 } U.S. Route 23 or U.S. Highway 23 (US 23) is a major north–south U.S. High ... and Mead-Springer Road. It was named for the long closed Mead's station, a train station and general store located on the C&O(now CSX) railroad that still runs through the community. Very little if anything remains of the original community besides the railroad and a few homes. With the upgrading of U.S. 60 beginning in the early 1970s, new growth began to happen at Meads, as it was reborn as a suburb of Ashland. In 1974 a large subdivision named Rockdale was developed on the hills above Meads, with several hundre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meads Bay Pond
Meads Bay Pond is a wetland in Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea. It is one of the territory's Important Bird Areas (IBAs). Description The pond is a narrow, 21 ha brackish lagoon next to Long Bay Village, near the south-western end of the main island. Its north-western shore is separated from Meads Bay by a thin strip of land, a former dune, that carries a road and tourism developments. The substrate is marl on the northern side and limestone on the southern. Vegetation around the pond consists mainly of stands of buttonwood mangroves, with some longspine acacia and grey nicker at the western end. Birds The IBA was identified as such by BirdLife International because it supports a small breeding colony of least terns as well as non-breeding royal tern The royal tern (''Thalasseus maximus'') is a tern in the family Laridae. The species is endemic to the Americas, though strays have been identified in Europe.Buckley, P. A. and F. G. Buckley ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meads Cup
The Meads Cup is a rugby union trophy named after King Country and All Blacks player Colin Meads. It is contested during the Heartland Championship. It was first awarded in 2006, when the Heartland Championship format was introduced. Competition Regular season At present, all 12 Heartland Championship teams play 8 games over 8 weeks before the finals. Once finished, the top 4 advance to the Meads Cup finals. The teams ranked 5-8 play for the Lochore Cup. Previously, a pool system was used between 2006 and 2010. Finals The Meads Cup winner is determined in four-team single-elimination tournament. The semi-final matchups are seeded 1-4 and 2–3, with the higher seed receiving home field advantage. The highest remaining seed hosts the Meads Cup final. Winners See also * Lochore Cup * Heartland Championship * New Zealand Heartland XV * National Provincial Championship (1976–2005) * National Provincial Championship (2006–present) The National Provincial Championship, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meads Peak
Mount Hawkes is, at , the highest mountain along the Washington Escarpment, standing at the east side of Jones Valley in the Neptune Range of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica. It was discovered and photographed on January 13, 1956, in the course of the trans-Antarctic nonstop plane flight by personnel of U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze I from McMurdo Sound to the Weddell Sea and return. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Commander William M. Hawkes of the U.S. Navy, who was the co-pilot of the P2V-2N Neptune aircraft making this flight. The Hawkes Heights are also named for Hawkes, who was assigned to Air Development Squadron Six (VX-6 Air Development Squadron Six (VX-6 or AIRDEVRON SIX, commonly referred to by its nickname, "puckered penguins") was a United States Navy Air Development Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Established at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, ...) in 1955–56. References Mountains of Queen Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mead (other)
Mead is an alcoholic drink made from honey. Mead may also refer to: Places Canada *Mead, Ontario United States *Mead, Colorado, town *Mead, Nebraska, village *Mead, Oklahoma, town *Mead, Washington, town * Mead, Wisconsin, town *Lake Mead, artificial lake on the Colorado River created by the Hoover Dam * Mead Township, Merrick County, Nebraska *Mead Township, Belmont County, Ohio *Mead Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania *Mead Wildlife Area, wildlife refuge Other places * Mead (crater), a crater on Venus Companies * Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, a UK-based advertising agency *Dodd, Mead and Company, U.S. publishing company in New York *McKim, Mead, and White, U.S. architecture firm *Mead Johnson, a nutritional company *MeadWestvaco, a paper and packaging manufacturing company formed in 2002 by the merger of Mead and Westvaco Media * ''MEAD'' (film), a 2022 science fiction film Other uses * Mead (surname) * Mead, a meadow *Mi'ad, also transliterated "mead", an Arabic term for r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meade (other)
Meade may refer to: Geographic placenames * Meade Glacier, Washington, US * Meade Island, Western Australia * Meade River, Alaska, US Populated places or administrative divisions * Meade, Kansas * Meade, Ohio * Meade County, Kansas * Meade County, Kentucky * Meade County, South Dakota * Meade Township, Huron County, Michigan * Meade Township, Mason County, Michigan Other uses * Meade (surname), people with the surname Meade * Meade Instruments, a company that manufactures telescopes and other astronomy accessories * Meade Senior High School, a high school in Fort Meade, Maryland * Meade Stadium, of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, Rhode Island See also * Mead (other) * Meades (other) * Meads (other) * Mede (other) Mede may refer to: * A member of the Medes, an ancient Iranian people who lived in an area known as Media * Mede, Lombardy, a comune (municipality) in Italy * Petra Mede (born 1970), Swedish comedian and television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meades (other)
Meades is a surname. People with that name include: * Christopher Meades, Vancouver novelist * Jonathan Meades, English writer and broadcaster * Jonathan Meades (footballer), Welsh footballer See also * Mead (other) * Meade (other) * Meades Ranch Triangulation Station, a geodetic base point at or near the geographic center of the forty-eight contiguous U.S. states * Meads (other) Meads is a district of Eastbourne, East Sussex, England Meads may also refer to: * MEADS (Medium Extended Air Defense System) * Meads (surname) * Meads, Kentucky, United States * Meads Bay Pond, Anguilla * Meads Cup, New Zealand * Meads Peak, ... * Mede (other) * Medes (other) {{surname, Meades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
