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Systems engineering

Systems engineering, also called Systems Design Engineering, is a transdisciplinary approach to designing and realizing complex engineered systems, coordinating specialties from electrical engineering to human factors.

Systems Modeling Language

The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is a general-purpose graphical modeling language for specifying, analyzing, designing, and verifying complex systems, standardized by the Object Management Group.

Systems thinking

Systems thinking is a way of understanding problems by examining the whole system, its underlying structure, and feedback loops rather than isolated events or components.

SystmOne

SystmOne is a clinical record system developed by The Phoenix Partnership (TPP), used in about a third of English GP practices and over 25 other care settings.

Systolic array

A systolic array is a grid of simple processing elements where data flows rhythmically between neighbors, reusing each memory read many times; it powers Google's TPUs.

SZD-48 Jantar Standard 2/3

The SZD-48 Jantar Standard 2/3, also known as the PZL Bielsko SZD-48, is a Polish single-seat Standard Class glider built from 1977, with 675 constructed and most exported.

Széchenyi Chain Bridge

The Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Lánchíd, Széchenyi Lánchíd) is a suspension bridge linking Buda and Pest across the Danube in Budapest, opened in 1849 as Hungary's first permanent Danube crossing.

Szybowcowy Zakład Doświadczalny (SZD)

Szybowcowy Zakład Doświadczalny (SZD), later PZL-Bielsko, was Poland's state glider manufacturer in Bielsko-Biała, which built over 5,000 gliders and was the world's largest glider maker in the late 1970s.

T Peter Brody

T Peter Brody (1920–2011) was a Hungarian-born physicist who invented the active-matrix display at Westinghouse's Pittsburgh labs, built the first active-matrix LCD in 1972, and founded Panelvision.

T Plus (energy company)

T Plus, known as KES Holding until June 2015, is a Russian heat and electricity generating company built from Viktor Vekselberg's Renova assets and the country's largest centralized heat producer.

T-10 (tokamak)

T-10 is a large circular tokamak at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow that began operation in 1975 as the largest tokamak of its time, becoming a principal testbed for electron cyclotron heating.

T-10 tank

The T-10, or IS-10, was the last series-production heavy tank of the Soviet Union, armed with a 122 mm gun and in service from 1953 to the 1990s.

T-1000

The T-1000 is a fictional shapeshifting liquid metal robot in the Terminator franchise, played by Robert Patrick in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) and realized through pioneering computer graphics by Industrial Light & Magic.

T-12 Cloudmaker

The T-12 Cloudmaker, also known as the T-12 bomb, was an American 43,600-pound earthquake bomb designed to penetrate deep underground and destroy bunkers, carried by the B-36 bomber.

T-122 Sakarya

The T-122 Sakarya is a Turkish 122 mm multiple launch rocket system built by Roketsan, the first domestically designed Turkish rocket system to reach operational status in 1997.

T-14 Armata (Т-14 «Армата»)

The T-14 Armata (Т-14 «Армата») is a Russian main battle tank built by UralvagonZavod, the first with a fully unmanned turret, first shown publicly at the 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade.

T-15 (tokamak)

T-15 was a superconducting tokamak with Nb3Sn coils operated from 1988 to 1995 at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, and was dismantled in 2017 to build the upgraded T-15MD.

T-15 Armata (Объект)

The T-15 Armata, also known as the Armata IFV, is a Russian heavy infantry fighting vehicle built by Uralvagonzavod, first shown at the 2015 Moscow Victory Day parade.

T-15MD

T-15MD (Токамак Т-15МД) is a Russian divertor tokamak at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, a modernized successor to T-15 that reached first plasma in 2021.

T-24 (tank)

The T-24 was a Soviet medium tank built in small numbers at the Kharkov Locomotive Factory in 1930 and 1931, the first true Soviet medium tank.

T-26 (Т-26)

The T-26 was a Soviet light tank derived from the British Vickers 6-ton, produced from 1931 to 1941 and the most numerous tank before World War II.

T-3000

The T-3000 is a fictional Terminator model in the 2015 film Terminator Genisys, where Skynet converts resistance leader John Connor into a nanocyte cyborg assassin.

T-34 (Т-34)

The T-34 was a Soviet medium tank of World War II, first armed with a 76.2 mm gun and produced in larger numbers than any other wartime tank.

T-34 variants

T-34 variants are the production models of the Soviet T-34 medium tank, from the 76 mm T-34-76 of 1940 to the 85 mm T-34-85 of 1944.

T-35 (Т-35)

The T-35 (Т-35) was a Soviet five-turreted heavy tank, the only five-turreted tank ever to enter production, built for the Red Army from 1933 to 1939.

T-4 (tokamak)

T-4 was a Soviet experimental tokamak operated at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow from 1971, an upgraded successor to the landmark T-3 that hosted pioneering soft-x-ray diagnostics and early disruption physics.

T-42 super-heavy tank

The T-42, also known as the TG-V, was a Soviet 100-tonne super-heavy tank project designed in 1932 under German engineer Edward Grotte; it never got past the drawing board.

T-44

The T-44 (Объект 136) is a Soviet medium tank developed in 1943–1944 by Alexander A. Morozov. It was built in 1,823 units and remained in service until the 1970s.

T-54/T-55

The T-54/T-55 is a family of Soviet medium tanks armed with a 100 mm rifled gun, produced from 1947 and totaling more than 95,000, more than any other postwar tank.

T-54/T-55 operators and variants

The T-54/T-55 operators and variants are the users and derivatives of the Soviet T-54 and T-55 tanks, produced in the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and China.