The desire to create air portable armoured vehicles that can still take on conventional MBTs has usually resulted ATGM armed light vehicles or in protected / armoured / mobile gun system style vehicles in which a lack of armour protection being in part offset by the provision of a first look / first hit / first kill capability through the mating of a powerful gun to superior targeting electronics, a concept similar in operation to that of the US tank destroyers of WWII.

The transformation from the stalemate of the First World War into tremendous initial operational and strategic success in the Second, was partly the employment of a relatively small number of mechanised divisions, most importantly the Panzer divisions, and the support of an exceptionally powerful air force.

A powerful downdraft of cold air was suspected to be a cause in the sinking of the Pride of Baltimore on May 14, 1986.

Little Walter also cupped his hands around the instrument, tightening the air around the harp, giving it a powerful, distorted sound, somewhat reminiscent of a saxophone, hence the term " Mississippi saxophone ".

He cupped his hands around the instrument, tightening the air around the harp, giving it a powerful, distorted sound, somewhat reminiscent of a saxophone.

This design is superior to the M998 with a larger, more powerful turbocharged engine, air conditioning, and a strengthened suspension system.

Kansas City is situated in " Tornado Alley ," a broad region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains in Canada collide with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms especially during the spring.

Among these was an air rifle of about. 44 caliber, powerful enough to kill a deer.

A turbocharged engine can be more powerful and efficient than a naturally aspirated engine because the turbine forces more intake air, proportionately more fuel, into the combustion chamber than if atmospheric pressure alone is used.

A powerful fan system moves air past the object ; the fan must have straightening vanes to smooth the airflow.

This is simply because electrons ( ejected from the air by gamma rays ) are stopped quickly in normal air for bursts below roughly 10 km ( about 6 miles ), so they do not get a chance to be significantly deflected by the Earth's magnetic field ( the deflection causes the powerful EMP seen in high altitude bursts ), thus the limited use of smaller burst altitudes for widespread EMP.

Israel has a powerful army, air force and navy, while the Palestinian organisations have no access to large-scale military equipment with which to conduct operations ; instead, they utilize asymmetric tactics, such as: small gunfights, cross-border sniping, rocket attacks, and suicide bombing.

During the 1952 campaign Stewart Alsop, a powerful Connecticut Republican, labeled Stevenson an " egghead ", based on his baldness and intellectual air.

Mabel attributed the end of their friendship to an exchange in the autumn of 1912 when, during lunch, Gertrude sent her " such a good strong look over the table that it seemed to cut across the air to me in a band of electrified steel — a smile traveling across on it — powerful — Heavens !".

Some forms such as the ku and jue can be very graceful, but the most powerful pieces are the ding, sometimes described as having the an " air of ferocious majesty.

Hydraulic action occurs when water ( generally from powerful waves ) rushes rapidly into cracks in the rock face, thus trapping a layer of air at the bottom of the crack, compressing it and weakening the rock.

The focus of psychic energy granted the Doctor the ability to de-age himself, float through the air, deflect shots from the Master's laser screwdriver, and telekinetically disarm the Master while surrounded in a powerful blue glow.

In " The Empty House ", Holmes states that Moriarty had commissioned a powerful air gun from a blind German mechanic ( one Mr. von Herder ), which was used by his employee Colonel Sebastian Moran.

On June 30, 1908, in the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, there occurred a powerful explosion most likely to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5 – 10 kilometers ( 3 – 6 miles ) above Earth's surface.

Kansas City is situated in " Tornado Alley ", a broad region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains and Canada collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms.

The heat energy creates powerful rising air currents that swirl upwards to the tropopause.

During the 2008 South Ossetia war air power faced off against powerful SAM systems, like the 1980s Buk-M1.

In the most confidential whispers ambassadors told of techniques they had tried to bring Rooney around -- friendly persuasion, groveling abasement, pressure subtly exerted through other powerful congressmen, tales of heartbreak and penury among a threadbare diplomatic corps.

The Spirit Of Mayo, performed by an 85-piece orchestra in Dublin's National Concert Hall featuring a powerful Celtic drum corps and a 200 strong choir and choral group Anúna.

At dawn on September 17, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank.

They also fielded a powerful artillery corps equipped with Soviet 122 mm howitzer 2A18 ( D-30 ) and 130 mm towed field gun M1954 ( M-46 ) pieces, along with truck-mounted BM-11 130 mm and towed BM-12 ( Chinese Type 63 ) 107 mm MBRLs, coupled by Man-portable, shoulder-launched Soviet SAM-7 ‘ Grail ’ AA missiles which were used to bring down two Lebanese Air Force Hawker Hunter fighter jets during the 1983-84 ‘ Mountain War ’.

Attempts to right this situation had begun during the reign of Sultan Selim III, from 1789 to 1807, but were continuously thwarted by the powerful Janissary corps.

The change toward the line of battle also depended on an increased disciplining of society and the demands of powerful centralized government to keep permanent fleets led by a corps of professional officers.

In April, following news of Masséna's complete withdrawal from Portugal, Wellington sent a powerful Anglo-Portuguese corps commanded by Sir William Beresford to retake the border town.

The Ka-29 may form the first dedicated transport for the marine corps, the Ka-31's powerful radar can serve in over-the-horizon target acquisitions and early warning for Chinese surface ships, and the Be-200 jet amphibian would replace the SH-5 in maritime patrol duties and ASW.

That afternoon, as the powerful Confederate assault from the corps of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet struck the Union III Corps, Hancock ordered Caldwell's division to reinforce the III Corps in the Wheatfield.

" Brass Theater " was designed to apply the powerful brass and percussion and the exacting choreography of drum corps to pop, Broadway, movie, and classical music to create an all new type of stage entertainment.

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

Neither was he very powerful of build.

The odor here was more powerful than that which surrounded the town aborigines.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Another powerful factor in the European movement was the threat of Soviet aggression.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

What had been an unmanageably powerful introject was now, despite its continuing charge of energy disconcerting to me, sufficiently within control of her ego that she could use it to show me what this introjected mother was like.

In other words, the Soviet Union was determined to create a Poland so strong as to be a powerful bulwark against Germany and so closely tied to Russia that there would never be any question of her serving as a cordon sanitaire against the Soviets or posing as an independent, balancing power in between Russia and Germany.

During the Brown trial, however, the state's most powerful Democratic newspaper, the Providence Daily Post, stated that Brown was a murderer, a man of blood, and that he and his associates, with the assistance of Republicans and Abolitionists, had plotted not only the liberation of the slaves but also the overthrow of state and federal governments.

He was also at this time, although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone, the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld, the roughneck king.

The powerful microphone I could press against the wall between my motel unit and that occupied by the man would bring in the sound of any conversation, and I was positively nauseated I was so hungry.

but naturally, the royal ritual, which provided unusual control over already supremely powerful divine spirits, was held responsible for regulating the universe and insuring the welfare of the kingdom.

Here was a powerful, ready-made medium, but it could speak only if I told it to.

We don't know his original name, but it seems that he was absorbed by the more powerful Apollo, who stood by the " Mistress of the animals ", becoming her brother.

Nobel later on combined nitroglycerin with various nitrocellulose compounds, similar to collodion, but settled on a more efficient recipe combining another nitrate explosive, and obtained a transparent, jelly-like substance, which was a more powerful explosive than dynamite.

Instead, the value of the AMD was kept high, out of a fear of inflation and concern about alienating the powerful government-connected importers of oil, sugar, flour, cigarettes and beverages.

de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress, who was considered the most powerful woman in France at the time.

Classical Athens was a powerful city-state.

Although Abensberg was an autonomous city, it remained dependent on the powerful Dukes of Bavaria.

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

It was most evident in the public and private actions of the powerful and rich.