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  • Agents scan the cars with an infrared telescope to pick up body heat.†   (source)
  • Insurgents usually wouldn't attack then, because they knew we had the advantage with our technology, including our night-vision gear and infrared sensors.†   (source)
  • And they would be well armed and rigged with infrared and motion sensors.†   (source)
  • I also had an infrared strobe light that I could fire up, and I had the laser from my rifle, which I took off and aimed at the regular U.S. flyby.†   (source)
  • But the black chopper is running dark, would be nearly invisible if not for the infrared trail coming out of its twin turbo jets.†   (source)
  • Denise and Steffie stayed home that week as men in Mylex suits and respirator masks made systematic sweeps of the building with infrared detecting and measuring equipment.†   (source)
  • If someone managed to evade the infrared detectors and got into the house, a 115-decibel siren would go off.†   (source)
  • A Gulf & Western infrared Eye View Monitor was set up just off to the left, carefully calibrated to track the fovea movements of each subject.†   (source)
  • On infrared a number of them were glowing brightly from internal heat, indicating that their boilers or gas-turbine engine plants were operating.†   (source)
  • Operating out of a gleaming-white training room, Frenchy stocked every manner of weight-loss facilitator, including electric blankets, infrared lamps, electric light cabinets, baking machines, "violet-rays," vibrating contraptions, and rubber sleeping bags and sheets.†   (source)
  • We picked up some infrared chemlights and fireflies in preparation for upgrading Pasha's perimeter security.†   (source)
  • The cables also carry video and infrared signals so that the operator can see where the ROV is going.†   (source)
  • These days, the cops had helicopters and dogs and infrared and snitches everywhere.†   (source)
  • There might be silent alarms, hidden infrared cameras, whatever.†   (source)
  • With an infrared penlight, he eased through the offices; not a single interior door was locked.†   (source)
  • Infrared!†   (source)
  • She was a warm light upon his skin, a spectrum of light beyond the ability of his eyes to detect, as were infrared and ultraviolet, but though he could not see her, he could feel her shining in the world.†   (source)
  • I dumped it in the grass and marked it with an infrared or "IR" chemical light.†   (source)
  • What they did have was infrared technology that would electronically strip Cyclops of enough foliage to reveal any suspicious anomalies, such as heat.†   (source)
  • The Ofek 10 switched over to infrared mode.†   (source)
  • They've been mapping us, with infrared and transitor television, measuring us for the Sunday punch.†   (source)
  • It was night down there, as planned, but infrared snoopers let you size up terrain quite well after you are used to them.†   (source)
  • We will wear infrared goggles for vision.†   (source)
  • The red lights around the edges must be infrared sensors.†   (source)
  • She doesn't see any pink faces lurking up here in the infrared, it ought to be safe.†   (source)
  • If they see me dressed like this, equipped with infrared goggles, they'll question me for sure.†   (source)
  • It was lit by ninety-nine oil lamps, and the amplified infrared would have seared their eyes.†   (source)
  • The museum was dark, and the guards wore U.S. Marine issue infrared goggles.†   (source)
  • "You guys just come on a little weird," Y.T. says, flipping her goggles back onto infrared.†   (source)
  • Hire switches everything on: infrared, millimeter-wave radar, ambient-sound processing.†   (source)
  • A scope … an infrared scope of a rifle.†   (source)
  • Lightning flickered through his beard, which probably rendered his infrared goggles useless.†   (source)
  • "Like infrared scopes," Michael Yew muttered.†   (source)
  • His eyes were covered with infrared goggles that glowed from inside.†   (source)
  • Infrared lasers that can be seen only through night vision goggles danced over the skin of the boat.†   (source)
  • The fourth kept its infrared seeker head on Spade 1's glowing tail pipes and bored right in.†   (source)
  • Total darkness, and to a lesser extent infrared light, inhibited growth.†   (source)
  • If there was an infrared camera, Webb could not detect the whereabouts of the lens.†   (source)
  • Mars's infrared goggles glowed brighter.†   (source)
  • A rifle of unquestioned accuracy with an infrared telescopic sight?†   (source)
  • The plane that now approached, undoubtedly with infrared scanners, was proof enough.†   (source)
  • They were tracking the Forgers with passive systems only, in this case an infrared sensor.†   (source)
  • The men in Mylex suits are still in the area, yellow-snouted, gathering their terrible data, aiming their infrared devices at the earth and sky.†   (source)
  • The night-vision goggles used a combination of low-light imaging with near-infrared illumination, so even in the pitch blackness I could see amazingly well.†   (source)
  • The infrared filter was messing with his depth perception and he'd whacked his head on two protruding U-bends so far.†   (source)
  • Additionally, depending on the circumstances, I had an infrared and visible red laser, as well as night vision for the scope.†   (source)
  • Above me, far out from the cliff, a wide-winged Thomas Hawk circles above the lagoon on rising thermals and scans the shifting bluekelp beds with its infrared vision, seeking out harp seals or torpids.†   (source)
  • The raptor loomed over him, rising up, its head banging into the infrared lights above, making them swing crazily.†   (source)
  • Wearing their infrared goggles, they fanned out across the nave, swinging their detectors before them.†   (source)
  • He was where he wanted to be, in the hatchery: beneath infrared lights, long tables, with rows of eggs and a low clinging mist.†   (source)
  • This comes from the infrared, and it means that these things are warm or hot; people are pink, engines and fires are red.†   (source)
  • Then he switches his system into full gargoyle mode: enhanced visible light with false-color infrared, plus millimeter-wave radar.†   (source)
  • On infrared, the Falabala encampment is a turbulating aurora of pink fog punctuated by the white-hot bursts of campfires.†   (source)
  • Whenever a pirate vessel comes into view, they all take turns looking at it through the sight, playing with all the different sensor modes: visible, infrared, and so on.†   (source)
  • The infrared doesn't do much in these circumstances, but the radar picks out all the Weapons, highlights them in The Enforcers' hands, identifies them by make, model, and ammunition type.†   (source)
  • Under infrared, it shows up warm.†   (source)
  • In the infrared, she can see that the third Falabala, the one who came up here with the High Priest, is holding a small thing in one hand that is unusually warm.†   (source)
  • The others are still blinded, but Y.T. sees into the night with her Knight Visions, sees all the way into near infrared, and she sees the source of it, a double. bladed stealth helicopter thirty feet above the neighbor's house.†   (source)
  • They are adrift in a laser-drawn world, scanning retinas in all directions, doing background checks on everyone within a thousand yards, seeing everything in visual light, infrared, millimeter. wave radar, and ultrasound all at once.†   (source)
  • He imagined uniformed men peering through infrared telescopes and binoculars, not sure what they were looking for but ordered to observe everything.†   (source)
  • She hit the key for an infrared scan.†   (source)
  • In addition it had a center-mount Homans infrared multi-spex camera as well as the usual electronic and radio-detection gear.†   (source)
  • Infrared camera.†   (source)
  • Shortly after two the next morning, the car arrived at the border town of Kilis, where the satellite's infrared camera observed two figures, both women, entering a small house.†   (source)
  • We each had infrared chemlight glowsticks on the backs of our helmets that were invisible to the naked eye but shone in our NODs.†   (source)
  • Before leaving Paris he had collected the dossiers, and the dossiers behind those dossiers, all seemingly innocuous pages of blank paper in file folders until they were exposed to infrared light, the heat waves bringing up the typewritten script.†   (source)
  • They all wore helmets, infrared goggles, jackboots, and full Kevlar body armor with the letters GRRM across the chest.†   (source)
  • Instead, they watched the entrance of the brownstone, confident that they could not be picked up by the infrared beam of a scanning camera.†   (source)
  • I also set up my fourteen-inch H&K 416 with an infrared laser and a clip-on thermal sight that allowed for more precise night shooting.†   (source)
  • Usually, when an asset arrived in the dark, he wore an infrared chemlight or a firefly (an infrared strobe light).†   (source)
  • These are infrared films, as you know, which produce a picture on the basis of heat instead of light.†   (source)
  • Mordecai switched the camera from optical to infrared, and a moment later Gabriel and Eli Lavon watched as a yellow-and-red man-shaped blob slipped quickly in and out of the gorse at the edge of the Kerselaarstraat.†   (source)
  • I also had several chemical lights rigged to the front of my vest, including the infrared version that can only be seen using night vision.†   (source)
  • We can spot them with our infrared scopes and fire tracers at them, and your machine gunners can open fire on that area.†   (source)
  • Four total-immersion baths, three sequences of ultraviolet and infrared light, two of ultrasonic vibrations, and then something quite astonishing at the end.†   (source)
  • He figured the TV-type screen was the FLIR readout, which monitored a forward-looking infrared heat sensor.†   (source)
  • Even his targeting radar was switched off, and only passive infrared and low-light television sensors were operating.†   (source)
  • We received a report that Aidid might have acquired portable infrared homing surface-to-air missiles—Stinger missiles—which can be used by someone on the ground to shoot down aircraft.†   (source)
  • I could see the infrared laser from the aerial drone tracking the movement of eight fighters who ran out of the target compound when we arrived.†   (source)
  • Along with more than eighty aircraft, it was armed with two Guided Missile Launching System Mark-29 launchers for Sea Sparrow missiles, two Phalanx close-in weapon systems for attacking incoming missiles, and two Rolling Airframe Missile. launchers that fire infrared homing surface-to-air missiles.†   (source)
  • As the Tomcat twisted in midair, a series of flares and balloons was ejected from the tail section, each an infrared or radar lure for the pursuing missiles.†   (source)
  • Okay, I got infrared acquisition.†   (source)
  • Directly beneath the fuselage was a LANTIRN (low-altitude navigation and targeting infrared for night) pod; all the other ordnance stations save one were occupied by fuel tanks.†   (source)
  • Additionally, each P-3C carried FLIRs, forward-looking infrared scanners, to identify the heat signature of a nuclear sub, and MADs, magnetic anomaly detectors that located the disturbance in the earth's magnetic field caused by a large chunk of ferrous metal like a submarine.†   (source)
  • Also we just got some photos from a Big Bird pass over the fjord—for once it wasn't covered with clouds—and we have a bunch of surface ships with bright infrared signatures, like they're getting steam up."†   (source)
  • Snoopers were needed at once — whereupon we confirmed something that had been theorized: Bugs see by infrared.†   (source)
  • If you toss your head like a horse bothered by a fly, your infrared snoopers go up on your forehead — toss it again, they come down.†   (source)
  • His suggestion made sense as the surface air temperature was much lower than the Bugs use in their tunnels; a camouflaged vent hole should show a plume like a geyser by infrared vision.†   (source)
  • Then, in the middle of the night, under the infrared bulb of Thea's photographic kit, I tried the hood once more, and he submitted to it at last.†   (source)
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