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Northern Metropolis

The Northern Metropolis (北部都会区) is a planned 300-square-kilometer development area in Hong Kong's northern New Territories, announced by Carrie Lam in 2021 and built around innovation and technology with neighboring Shenzhen.

Northern Montney gas field

The Northern Montney gas field is the northern portion of the Montney Formation gas play in northeast British Columbia, producing gas and condensate from Lower Triassic siltstones by horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Northern Natural Gas

Northern Natural Gas is an Omaha, Nebraska-based interstate natural gas pipeline company owned by Berkshire Hathaway Energy, operating the largest US gas pipeline system by miles.

Northern Outfall Sewer

The Northern Outfall Sewer is a major brick sewer in east London, built between 1860 and 1865 under engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette as part of London's Main Drainage.

Northern Peruvian Oil Pipeline

The Northern Peruvian Oil Pipeline (Spanish: Oleoducto Norperuano) is a Petroperú crude oil pipeline in Peru built between 1974 and 1977, carrying oil from Amazonian fields to the Pacific coast.

Northern Power Generation Company

Northern Power Generation Company, also called GENCO-III or NPGCL, is a state-owned Pakistani electricity generation company headquartered in Muzaffargarh, Punjab, with about 2,060 MW licensed capacity.

Northern Powerhouse Rail

Northern Powerhouse Rail is a planned program of new and upgraded railways improving east–west rail links between the major cities of northern England, set out in 2015.

Northern Railway zone

Northern Railway, also known as Northern Railways, is the largest zonal railway of Indian Railways by route kilometers and staff, created in 1952 and headquartered at Baroda House, New Delhi.

Northern Sea Route

The Northern Sea Route is a roughly 5,600-kilometer shipping lane along the Russian Arctic coast, from the Kara Strait to the Bering Strait, crossing five Arctic seas.

Northern section of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line (Darwin to Tennant Creek)

The Northern section of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line ran from Darwin to Tennant Creek. Begun by Darwent & Dalwood in 1870, it was completed in 1872.

Northern Tyumen Regions (SRTO)–Torzhok Gas Pipeline

The Northern Tyumen Regions (SRTO)–Torzhok gas pipeline (СРТО — Торжок) is a 2,200 km Russian gas trunkline carrying gas from the Urengoyskoye field in Western Siberia to Torzhok, built from 1995.

Northland Power

Northland Power is a Canadian independent power producer headquartered in Toronto and founded in 1987, developing and operating offshore wind, solar, natural gas, and grid-scale battery storage across seven countries.

Northport power station

The Northport Power Station is a 1,516 MW dual-fuel steam-electric station on Long Island Sound in Northport, New York, operated by National Grid for LIPA.

Northrop Corporation

Northrop Corporation, originally Northrop Aircraft, was an American aircraft manufacturer founded in Hawthorne, California in 1939, known for flying wing bombers, the F-5 fighter, and the B-2 stealth bomber.

Northrop F-20 Tigershark

The Northrop F-20 Tigershark, originally designated F-5G, was a single-engine export fighter Northrop developed in the early 1980s but never sold, ending the program in 1986.

Northrop F-5

The Northrop F-5, known as the Freedom Fighter and Tiger II, is a lightweight supersonic fighter that Northrop built in large numbers for export to allied nations from 1959.

Northrop F-89 Scorpion

The Northrop F-89 Scorpion was a two-seat, twin-engine American all-weather interceptor, the backbone of US air defense against Soviet bombers from 1952 until the late 1950s.

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman is an American aerospace and defense technology company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, formed in 1994 and ranked third among world arms producers.

Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit

The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, also called the B-2 Bomber, is a US stealth strategic heavy bomber with a flying-wing design that entered service in the 1990s.

Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider

The Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is a stealth bomber for the United States Air Force, built by Northrop Grumman and first flown in 2023 from Palmdale, California.

Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A

The Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A, or E-10A, was a proposed US Air Force surveillance and battle management aircraft based on the Boeing 767-400ER, canceled in 2007.

Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint STARS

The Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint STARS was a US Air Force ground surveillance and battle management aircraft built on modified Boeing 707 airframes, retired in 2023.

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems

Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, formerly Orbital ATK, was a Northrop Grumman business sector created in 2018 and dissolved in 2020, known for the Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft.

Northrop Grumman LN-200

The Northrop Grumman LN-200 is a solid-state inertial measurement unit using fiber-optic gyros and silicon accelerometers, the first FOG-based IMU, flown on NASA's Mars rovers since 2004.

Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton

The Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton is a high-altitude, long-endurance Navy drone derived from the RQ-4 Global Hawk, providing persistent maritime surveillance alongside the P-8A Poseidon.

Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout

The Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout, originally designated RQ-8A, is an unmanned autonomous helicopter built for the United States Navy, with MQ-8B and larger MQ-8C variants.

Northrop Grumman Pegasus

The Northrop Grumman Pegasus, also known as the Pegasus XL, is an American three-stage, solid-propellant, winged orbital rocket carried aloft under an airplane, first reaching orbit in 1990.

Northrop Grumman RQ-180

The Northrop Grumman RQ-180 is a highly classified, high-altitude stealth unmanned aircraft designed by Northrop Grumman for complex intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions.

Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk

The Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk is an unarmed, high-altitude surveillance drone that flies ISR missions for the United States Air Force and allied operators.

Northrop Grumman X-47A Pegasus

The Northrop Grumman X-47A Pegasus was a company-funded, tailless experimental unmanned air vehicle that first flew in 2003 at China Lake, California, demonstrating the autonomous carrier-style landings needed for a naval unmanned combat aircraft.