Most modern AFVs are superficially similar in design to their World War II counterparts, with significantly better armour, weapons, engines and suspension-however with an increase in the capacity of transport aircraft allowing AFVs to be practically transported by air, many armies are replacing some or all of their traditional heavy vehicles with lighter airmobile versions, often with wheels instead of tracks.

A common non-traditional wood gaining popularity is sapele, which is tonally similar to mahogany but slightly lighter in color and possessing a deep grain structure that is visually appealing.

Several structures make up a cabin: the similar but usually lighter structure which spans a raised cabin is a coach-roof.

Though much more expensive than steel, there are now aluminium alloys available that will not corrode in salt water, and an aluminium boat built to similar load carrying standards could be built lighter than steel.

Juveniles are similar but slightly lighter, with tawny coloration on the head, and no long wing plumes.

* The overall design of a Classical Guitar is very similar to the slightly lighter and smaller Flamenco guitar.

A FBW aircraft can be lighter than a similar design with conventional controls.

The flamenco guitar is similar to the classical guitar, but of lighter construction, with a cypress body and spruce top.

The first time race played a major part in Tracy's life was at the age of 7, when he became aware of the racism leveled by his white friends toward dark-skinned children, and that he escaped similar treatment because they thought that Marrow was white because of his lighter skin.

It is approximately the size of the Great Spotted Kiwi and is similar in appearance to the Brown Kiwi but its plumage is lighter in colour.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets uses a similar grading system of colour, and is roughly equivalent, especially for lighter syrups, but using letters: " AA ", " A ", etc.

It was manufactured with a longer barrel as it was recognized that artillery crew needed a lighter weapon than a rifle but with similar accuracy to defend themselves.

Apple introduced two later G3 PowerBook models, similar in appearance ( curved, black plastic case with black rubberized sections ) but thinner, lighter and with revised internal systems.

Although radium is not as well studied as its stable lighter homologue barium, the two elements have very similar properties.

In a manner similar to the formation of the oxychloride, the results of the experiment indicated the formation of seaborgium oxide hydroxide, a reaction well known among the lighter group 6 homologues.

From about 1900, the term género ínfimo (" degraded " or " low genre ") was coined to describe an emerging form of entertainment allied to the revista (" revue "): these were musical works similar to the género chico zarzuela but lighter and bolder in their social criticism, with scenes portraying sexual themes and many verbal double entendres.

Between 1977 and the Voyager flyby in 1989, Triton shifted from a reddish colour, similar to Pluto, to a far paler hue, suggesting that in the intervening decade lighter nitrogen frosts had covered older reddish material.

The Korean samgyetang bears a similar resemblance to Taiwanese soup, but it is lighter in color and contains glutinous rice.

: This is similar to pâte à foncer, but is lighter and more delicate due to an increased quantity of butter — up to three fifths the quantity of flour.

Although they can be less noticeable because of the similar colors of the surrounding skin, darker skin shades have equivalent incidences of moles to lighter skin shades.

Light rail is similar to the British English term light railway, long used to distinguish railway operations carried out under a less rigorous set of regulation using lighter equipment at lower speeds from mainline railways.

The heat capacity ratios of the two substances closely follows the ratios of their molar volumes ( the ratios of numbers of atoms in the same volume of each substance ); the departure from the correlation to simple volumes in this case is due to lighter arsenic atoms being significantly more closely packed than antimony atoms, instead of similar size.

The classic example of a Lance, as in the royal French and their opposing Burgundian forces, featured one noble heavy cavalryman, commonly known as a Knight, supported by at least two Sergeants ( professional soldiers, as opposed to gentry, who carried similar arms as knights, only lighter and cheaper ), two mounted archers, and between two and six valets or squires, non-combatant support troops in the service of the knight.

The first Pez mint dispensers, known as " regulars ," were similar in shape to a cigarette lighter, and dispensed an adult breath mint marketed as an alternative to smoking.

The Cajuns of Louisiana also believed in a similar creature with the variant name of Rougarou.

The circular structure is also found in prokaryotes, and the similarity is extended by the fact that mitochondrial DNA is organized with a variant genetic code similar to that of Proteobacteria.

The label is commonly used to describe other philosophies which appear similar to philosophical skepticism, such as academic skepticism, an ancient variant of Platonism that claimed knowledge of truth was impossible.

Taoism does not fall under an umbrella or a definition of a single organized religion like the Abrahamic traditions ; nor can it be studied as the originator or a variant of Chinese folk religion, as although the two share some similar concepts, much of Chinese folk religion is outside of the tenets and core teachings of Taoism.

10BASE2 ( also known as cheapernet, thin Ethernet, thinnet, and thinwire ) is a variant of Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable ( RG-58A / U or similar, as opposed to the thicker RG-8 cable used in 10BASE5 networks ), terminated with BNC connectors.

Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.

Analogously, many other systems call their printing devices " LP ", " LPT ", or some similar variant, whether these devices are in fact line printers or other types of printers.

In their homes or in non-chain restaurants, people in or from the United States may eat a thick type of chip, more similar to the British variant, sometimes referred to as home fries or steak fries.

One variant of the scam may date back to the 18th or 19th centuries, as a very similar letter, entitled, " The Letter From Jerusalem " is seen in the memoirs of Eugène François Vidocq, a former French criminal and private investigator.

Another variant of the scam, dating back to circa 1830, appears very similar to what is passed via email today: "' Sir, you will be doubtlessly be astonished to be receiving a letter from a person unknown to you, who is about to ask a favour from you.

The combination of the common spoken Finnish and a dialect gives a regional variant ( aluepuhekieli ), which has some local idiosyncrasies but is essentially similar to the common spoken Finnish.

The Starbucks tall latte index is a variant of the Big Mac Index ; it can give information regarding exchange rates similar to the Big Mac Index.

A second variant, called Bauernkrapfen, probably more similar to doughnuts, are made of yeast dough, and have a thick outside ring, but are very thin in the middle.

A variant of the sausage is the black pudding, strongly associated with Lancashire similar to the French boudin noir or the Spanish Morcilla.

The story of Iphis is similar to that of Leucippus from Phaestus, Crete, and could be a variant thereof.

A later Byzantine variant, reduced to two rows, called Tabula, meaning " table " or " board ", was similar to modern backgammon in that a board with 24 points was used, and the object of the game was to be the first to bear off all of one's checkers.

Plakoto is very similar to mahbusa or tapa, while fevga is similar to narde or the Turkish variant moultezim.

Black Lady is an extremely combative variant of the card game Whist that is popular in the United Kingdom and is similar to the North American game Hearts.

The name švargl is used for a variant where the chopped parts are stuffed inside the pig's stomach, similar to Scottish haggis.

The inscription on the Pillar of Eliseg, a mid-9th-century stone cross in North Wales, gives the Brythonic variant of Vortigern: Guorthigern, a name similar to Vortigern, or Gildas ' " superbus tyrannus ".

Ridders ' method is a variant on the false-position method that also evaluates the function at the midpoint of the interval, giving faster convergence with similar robustness.

" Half Naked 8s " is a variant similar to Naked 8s, but only the first four cards are dealt face up.

The similar McDonnell Douglas F / A-18 Hornet in its CF-18 variant, was ordered with a 0. 6 Mcd night identification light to enhance its night interception capabilities.