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Grumman F-14 Tomcat

The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, two-seat, variable-sweep-wing fighter that served the United States Navy from the mid-1970s until 2006 as a fleet defense interceptor and strike aircraft.

Grumman F-9 Cougar

The Grumman F-9 Cougar, also known as the F9F Cougar, was the United States Navy's first swept-wing, carrier-based jet fighter, developed from the F9F Panther.

Grumman F4F Wildcat

The Grumman F4F Wildcat was an American carrier-based fighter of the United States Navy and Marine Corps in World War II, called the Martlet in British service.

Grumman F6F Hellcat

The Grumman F6F Hellcat was an American carrier-based fighter of World War II, built to outfight the Zero and credited with 75 percent of Navy aerial victories.

Grumman F7F Tigercat

The Grumman F7F Tigercat, also known as the F7F Tigercat, was a twin-engine US Navy fighter of 1943 that arrived too late for World War II and served as a Marine night fighter in Korea.

Grumman F8F Bearcat

The Grumman F8F Bearcat was a carrier-borne fighter built for the United States Navy, first flown in August 1944, too late for World War II.

Grumman F9F Panther

The Grumman F9F Panther was a carrier-based jet fighter and ground-attack aircraft that served as the U.S. Navy's primary jet fighter during the Korean War, first flying in 1947.

Grumman HU-16 Albatross

Grumman HU-16 Albatross (SA-16A/B, UF-1, HU-16E): twin-engine amphibious flying boat, 466 built 1947-1961, used by USAF, Navy, and Coast Guard for air-sea rescue and utility roles, exported to about two dozen countries, retired from US service by 1983.

Grumman LLV

The Grumman LLV, or Long Life Vehicle, is a right-hand-drive mail delivery truck built by Grumman on a General Motors chassis for the United States Postal Service since 1987.

Grumman OV-1 Mohawk

The Grumman OV-1 Mohawk is a twin-turboprop, two-seat battlefield surveillance and observation aircraft built by Grumman for the US Army, flown from 1959 to 1996.

Grumman S-2 Tracker

The Grumman S-2 Tracker, originally designated S2F, is an American twin-engine carrier-based anti-submarine aircraft that was the US Navy's front-line sub hunter from 1954 and later flew as a firefighting airtanker.

Grumman TBF Avenger

The Grumman TBF Avenger, also known as the TBM Avenger, was an American three-seat, carrier-based torpedo bomber that replaced the Douglas TBD Devastator in the Second World War.

Grumman X-29

The Grumman X-29 was an American experimental aircraft with forward-swept wings, built by Grumman for DARPA, the Air Force, and NASA and flown from 1984 to 1992.

Grundig

Grundig, also known as Grundig AG, is a German electronics brand founded by Max Grundig in Fürth in 1945 that became Europe's largest radio and TV maker.

Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico

Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico (GAP) is a Mexican airport operator, headquartered in Guadalajara, that holds 50-year concessions to operate 12 airports in Mexico plus two in Jamaica.

Grupo Albanesi

Grupo Albanesi is an Argentine business group founded in 1929 that generates electric power and trades natural gas, operating ten thermal plants in Argentina and Peru.

Gruppo Bertone

Gruppo Bertone, commonly Bertone (Carrozzeria Bertone), was an Italian coachbuilder and design house founded in Turin in 1912 by Giovanni Bertone, known for the Lamborghini Miura and Countach.

GRX-810

GRX-810 is an oxide dispersion strengthened NiCoCr medium entropy alloy developed by NASA's Glenn Research Center for 3D printing of rocket engine and turbine parts.

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 (ГШ-23)

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 (ГШ-23) is a Soviet twin-barreled 23 mm aircraft autocannon adopted in 1965, which replaced the NR-23 and armed MiG fighters, helicopters, and bomber tail turrets.

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 (Грязев-Шипунов ГШ-6-30)

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 is a Soviet gas-operated six-barrel 30 mm rotary autocannon developed by Gryazev and Shipunov at the KBP bureau in Tula, adopted in 1974 and armed the MiG-27.

Gryazovets-Leningrad Gas Pipeline

The Gryazovets-Leningrad Gas Pipeline (Russian: Газопровод Грязовец — Ленинград) is a Gazprom trunk pipeline, 609 km per string, carrying gas from Gryazovets in Vologda Oblast to Saint Petersburg.

Gryazovets-Volkhov-Slavyanskaya Gas Pipeline

The Gryazovets-Volkhov-Slavyanskaya Gas Pipeline, also called Gryazovets-Ust Luga, is an operating onshore natural gas trunk pipeline in Russia, built by Gazprom from 2018 to feed Nord Stream 2.

Gryazovets-Vyborg Gas Pipeline

The Gryazovets-Vyborg Gas Pipeline (Russian: газопровод «Грязовец — Выборг») is a Gazprom trunk pipeline about 917 kilometers long, from Gryazovets to Vyborg, feeding Nord Stream and northwestern Russia, commissioned from 2011.

Grzegorz Kondrak

Grzegorz Kondrak is a Canadian computer scientist and professor at the University of Alberta known for work on string similarity, transliteration, cognate detection, and computational decipherment of the Voynich manuscript.

GS Yuasa Corporation

GS Yuasa Corporation (GSユアサ株式会社) is a Kyoto-based Japanese battery manufacturer formed in 2004 by the merger of Japan Storage Battery and Yuasa Corporation, ranking second worldwide in automotive lead-acid batteries.

GS1

GS1, formerly EAN.UCC and Global Standards One, is the neutral global standards organization behind the barcode and supply chain identification standards, active in 118 countries.

GS1-128

GS1-128, formerly UCC/EAN-128, is a barcode symbology standard defined by GS1 that encodes Application Identifier data and is mandatory on GS1 logistic labels for cases and pallets.

GSAT

GSAT (Geosynchronous Satellite) is a series of Indian geostationary communication satellites developed and operated by ISRO since 2001, carrying India's telecommunications, TV broadcasting, DTH, and broadband services.

GShard

GShard is a June 2020 Google system that trained a 600-billion-parameter sparsely-gated mixture-of-experts Transformer for multilingual machine translation, plus a sharding framework whose expert parallelism later systems like Switch Transformer and DeepSeek-V3 reused.

GSM

GSM, the Global System for Mobile Communications, is a 2G digital cellular standard developed in Europe in the late 1980s and adopted worldwide, using TDMA and the SIM card.