Oerlikon may refer to:
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OC Oerlikon
OC Oerlikon is a listed technology group headquartered in Pfäffikon (Schwyz), Switzerland. The name "Oerlikon" (or "œrlikon", as the company styles itself according to its corporate identity) comes from the Oerlikon district in Zurich where t ...
(former ''Unaxis''), a Swiss technology conglomerate, or one of its business units:
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Oerlikon Solar
TEL Solar, formerly Oerlikon Solar, is a manufacturer of production equipment for the manufacturing of thin-film silicon cells, headquartered in Trübbach, Switzerland, near the border to Liechtenstein. The Japanese electronics and semiconductor ...
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Oerlikon Balzers
Oerlikon Balzers is a part of the OC Oerlikon group, a Liechtensteiner technology conglomerate, and a supplier of PVD coatings. The OC Oerlikon group consists of companies in the following segments: Manmade Fibres, Drive Systems and Surface Solut ...
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Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum
Leybold GmbH, based in Cologne, is part of the Swedish industry group Atlas Copco. The company’s core competencies are based on the development of components and systems for the generation of vacuum and gas management engineering.
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Oerlikon-Bührle
''Oerlikon-Bührle'' (full name ''Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon, Bührle & Co.'', initially ''Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon'') was a Swiss armaments company based in Oerlikon (Zürich) from 1906 to 1999.Jürg Fink: ''Switzerland as seen by t ...
, a company in Zürich, Switzerland that used to own Bally Shoe, Oerlikon Contraves, Pilatus Aircraft and Britten-Norman Aircraft; see
Fairey Aviation Company
The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Cheshire. Notable for the design of a number of important military a ...
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Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon
Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon was a Swiss engineering company based in the Zürich district of Oerlikon known for the early development of electric locomotives. It was founded in 1876 by the industrialist Peter Emil Huber-Werdmüller, and occupie ...
, the Oerlikon subsidiary later became Oerlikon-Bührle, and is now part of Asea Brown Boveri
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Oerlikon Contraves
Rheinmetall Air Defence AG is a division of German armament manufacturer Rheinmetall, created when the company's Oerlikon Contraves unit was renamed on 1 January 2009 and integrated with Rheinmetall's other air-defence products. Oerlikon Contr ...
, a Swiss anti-aircraft artillery manufacturer founded in Zürich Oerlikon
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Oerlikon KBA
The Oerlikon KBA is a 25 mm (25×137mm) autocannon, developed as a close range multipurpose weapon for the mechanised battlefield, originally made by Oerlikon (now Rheinmetall AG) and currently produced in Rheinmetall Italia S.p.A. facilities. It ...
, a 25 mm cannon
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Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon is a series of autocannons, based on an original German Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon design that appeared very early in World War I. It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models emplo ...
, an anti-aircraft cannon
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Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon
The Oerlikon GDF or Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon is a towed anti-aircraft gun made by Oerlikon Contraves (renamed as ''Rheinmetall Air Defence AG'' following the merger with Rheinmetall in 2009). The system was originally designated 2 ZLA/ ...
, an anti-aircraft cannon
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Oerlikon (Zürich)
Oerlikon is a quarter in the northern part of the city of Zürich, Switzerland. A formerly independent municipality, Oerlikon was merged with Zürich in 1934 and forms today, together with Affoltern and Seebach, the city district 11.
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, a district in the northern part of Zürich, Switzerland
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Zürich Oerlikon railway station
Zürich Oerlikon railway station (german: Bahnhof Zürich Oerlikon) is a railway station located in the District 11 of Zürich. Together with Zurich Airport, it is one of the two major nodal points for local and regional public transportation in t ...
located in Zürich
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M. A. Foster
Michael Anthony Foster (July 2, 1939 - November 14, 2020) was an American science fiction writer from Greensboro, North Carolina. He spent over sixteen years as a Captain and Russian linguist in the United States Air Force.
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's "The Morphodite Trilogy"
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