Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

Using the Seagram as a prototype, Mies ' office designed a number of modern high-rise office towers, notably the Chicago Federal Center, which includes the Dirksen and Kluczynski Federal Buildings and Post Office ( 1959 ) and the IBM Plaza in Chicago ; the Westmount Square in Montreal, and the Toronto-Dominion Centre in 1967.

A number of Mercury boilerplate spacecraft ( including mockup / prototype / replica spacecraft, made from non-flight materials or lacking production spacecraft systems and / or hardware ) were also made by NASA and McDonnell Aircraft.

To prove the viability of the Mars Habitat Unit, the Mars Society has implemented the Mars Analogue Research Station Program ( MARS ), which has established a number of prototype Mars Habitat Units around the world.

A substantial number of prototype 11 / 74's ( of various types ) were built and at least two multiprocessor systems were sent to customers for beta testing, but no systems were ever officially sold.

Murdoch built a prototype steam locomotive in 1784 and made a number of discoveries in chemistry.

The first passenger car, assigned the model number 600, created a sensation when a prototype was presented in 1958.

The 1977 film has a number of changes from the prototype, including being entirely in color, moving the starting location from Miami to Chicago, introducing an additional two powers of ten at each extreme, a change in narrator from Judith Bronowski to Philip Morrison, and much improved graphics.

There he set up a lab and proceeded to engineer, design, prototype and patent an incredible number of SCUBA and undersea technology firsts ; including the direct ancestors of virtually every type of Scuba regulator in common use today.

A forensically usable prototype was under development at Swansea University during 2010, in research that was generating significant interest from the British Home Office and a number of different police forces across the UK, as well as internationally.

There were two releases, both sanctioned by Atari and Bridgestone Multimedia ( who had obtained the rights to the Starpath library some time ago ): the first release ( a limited number not-for-profit release ) also included the previously unreleased Atari prototype, Polo by Carol Shaw, and the second release included the Supercharger prototypes Meteroid ( an early version of Suicide Mission ) and Excalibur ( an early version of Dragonstomper ), as well as a number of homebrew games by permission of their respective authors, and the song Atari 2600 by Splitsville, fully licensed from the band.

" High-resolution photos of Charles Winterble's prototype C64 show the markings " MOS 6581 2082 ", the last number being a date code indicating that his prototype SID chip was produced during the 20th week of 1982, which would be within 6 days of May 14, 1982.

There are also a number of differently colored promotional units, and several prototype units with different designs.

Jefferis then had a small number of prototype armour-piercing HEAT rounds made, and took the weapon to be tested at the Small Arms School at Bisley.

The prototype was an experimental locomotive, North Star ( originally given number 40 ), constructed with the ' Atlantic ' 4-4-2 wheel arrangement for comparative trials with 4-cylinder compound locomotives of the de Glehn type that had been purchased from France.

The prototype race car is judged in a number of different events.

However, the canted elliptical taillights, first seen on the Edsel prototype, were used and carried the " E " ( Edsel ) part number on them.

A number of changes were made to the prototype during testing.

The show with more than 350 Volvo cars gathered the rarely seen number of 80 Volvo P1800 of all types and from all over Europe and the prototype P958-X1 in presence of yacht designer Pelle Petterson as well as Irv Gordon.

As a result of this a number of prototype Mylstar arcade games, which were not purchased by the investors, were never released.

The prototype, wearing a livery of lime green and chestnut brown and bearing the number D0280 after its Brush project number 280, emerged from Brush's Loughborough works in September 1961.

Small arms makers are also attracted by the exterior ballistic performance and armor-piercing potential of flechettes, and a number of attempts have been made to field flechette-firing small arms.

Many ironclads were built to make use of the ram or the torpedo, which a number of naval designers considered the crucial weapons of naval combat.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a number of military armored vehicles were manufactured by adding armor and weapons to existing vehicles.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

What changed was that only a certain number of soldiers now needed to retain longer range weapons, serving as designated marksmen.

A list of firearms not covered by the NFA due to their antique status may be found here or due to their Curio and Relic status may be found here ; these lists includes a number of carbines with barrels less than the minimum legal length and firearms that are " primarily collector's items and are not likely to be used as weapons and, therefore, are excluded from the provisions of the National Firearms Act.

For example, the U. S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ( ATF ) supports the United States ' International Traffic in Arms Regulations ( ITAR ) program " to aggressively enforce this mission and reduce the number of weapons that are illegally trafficked worldwide from the United States and used to commit acts of international terrorism, to subvert restrictions imposed by other nations on their residents, and to organized crime and narcotics-related activities.

Hussein had good relations with the Soviet Union and a number of western countries such as France and Germany, who provided him with advanced weapons systems.

It also developed a number of other weapons system prototypes, such as the Loki anti-aircraft missile system, and the forerunner of the Aerobee sounding rocket.

") Ximénez states the number of weapons they have (" Our two / three / four weapons are ..."), then lists one more than he had counted, before starting again using a higher number.

The ' number of weapons ' joke echoes a similar joke in the first episode " The Man and The Hour " of the BBC sitcom Dad's Army, broadcast in July 1968.

In the early and mid-19th century, a number of rapid-firing weapons appeared which offered multi-shot fire, and a number of semi-automatic weapons as well as volley guns.

But the New York Times reported this information in the context of a reported rise in the number of hoarded weapons in the face of what has been seen as a growing Taliban threat, even in the north of the country.

In the Gulf War, no nerve agents ( nor other chemical weapons ) were used, but a number of U. S. and UK personnel were exposed to them when the Khamisiyah chemical depot was destroyed.

* 1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.

Protocol III of the CCW restricts the use of all incendiary weapons, but a number of states have not acceded to all of the protocols of the CCW.

This can be due to a number of factors, including uncertainty in original descriptions, changes in weapons or nomenclature through time, mistranslation of terms, and the well-meaning inventiveness of later experts.

Later, as a result of these emerging conventions a number of international conferences were held, starting with the Brussels Conference of 1874, with nations agreeing that it was necessary to prevent inhumane treatment of prisoners and the use of weapons causing unnecessary harm.

The high number of character skins and the artificial intelligence of opponent bots were praised but the weapons were said to be " bland and predictable ".

Anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons reported included a number of Swingfire.