It is dated from 1297, as a " mail, defensive covering worn in combat " from Old French armoire, itself derived from the Latin armatura " arms and / or equipment " with the root arma " arms or gear ".

* Logistic services – to provide combat supplies, particularly ammunition, and equipment support.

However, the lack of manoeuvrability of the British forces, combined with lack of open-field tactics to command these numbers, put them at a disadvantage to the Romans, who were skilled at open combat due to their superior equipment and discipline.

These include two 135 tonne Yunnan-class landing craft, which are able to carry and launch smaller craft for troop insertions. Some effort has been made to assess equipment needs to bring L ' Audacieux P103 and Bakassi P104 to an effective combat status.

Individual equipment did include a sabre, probably because of well-established tradition, but in the case of a melee combat this secondary weapon would probably be more effective than a rifle and bayonet.

Throughout the Roman world, ceramics, lamps, gems and jewellery, mosaics, reliefs, wall paintings and statuary offer evidence, sometimes the best evidence, of the clothing, props, equipment, names, events, prevalence and rules of gladiatorial combat.

Because of severe shortages in weapons and equipment and lack of training, members of the Volkssturm were poorly prepared for combat, and about 175, 000 of them lost their lives in the final months of the war.

Since combat engineers with mine-clearing equipment can clear a path through a minefield relatively quickly, mines are usually considered effective only if covered by fire.

Some heroes and villains have no powers at all but depend instead on hand-to-hand combat training or advanced technological equipment.

The design was proposed as the power source for United States Marine Corps combat vehicles and other equipment in the late 1980s.

Within the U. S. military, they pioneered flexible swimfins and diving masks, closed-circuit diving equipment ( under the direction of Dr. Christian J. Lambertsen ), the use of Swimmer Delivery Vehicles ( a type of submersible ), and combat swimming and limpet mine attacks.

: There have been many instances of men swimming or diving for combat, but they always had to hold their breath, and had no diving equipment, except sometimes a hollow plant stem used as a snorkel.

Equipment can vary in size from light combat vehicles and artillery to heavy construction equipment.

Conversely, airborne forces typically lack the supplies and equipment for prolonged combat operations, and are therefore more suited for airhead operations than long-term occupation ; furthermore, parachute operations are particularly sensitive to adverse weather conditions.

The Japanese naval construction units and combat troops, under the command of Captain Kanae Monzen, panicked by the warship bombardment and aerial bombing, had abandoned the airfield area and fled about west to the Matanikau River and Point Cruz area, leaving behind food, supplies, intact construction equipment and vehicles, and 13 dead.

However, lack of modern weapons and equipment prevented these resistance movements from being able to engage the French in open combat.

Electronic attack involves the use of EM energy, directed energy, or antiradiation weapons to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment with the intent of degrading, neutralizing, or destroying enemy combat capability.

Electronic protection involves actions taken to protect personnel, facilities, and equipment from any effects of friendly or enemy use of the electromagnetic spectrum that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability.

Electronic attack ( EA ) or electronic countermeasures ( ECM ) involves the use of electromagnetic energy, or counter-electromagnetic radiation weapons to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment with the intention of directly affecting, degrading, neutralizing, or destroying an enemy's combat capability ( see Joint Publication 3-09, Joint Fire Support ).

Electronic Protection ( EP ) ( previously known as electronic protective measures ( EPM ) or electronic counter countermeasures ( ECCM )) involves actions taken to protect personnel, facilities, and equipment from any effects of friendly or enemy use of the electromagnetic spectrum that degrade, neutralize, or destroy friendly combat capability.

Force structuring is the method by which personnel and the weapons and equipment they use are organized and trained for military operations, including combat.

Much of capability development depends on the concepts which guide use of the armed forces and their weapons and equipment, and the methods employed in any given theatre of war or combat environment.

Capability development, which is often referred to as the military " strength ", is arguably one of the most complex activities known to humanity because it requires determining: Strategic, operational and tactical capability requirements to counter the identified threats ; Strategic, operational and tactical doctrines by which the acquired capabilities will be used ; identifying concepts, methods and systems involved in executing the doctrines ; creating design specifications for the manufacturers who would produce these in adequate quantity and quality for their use in combat ; purchase the concepts, methods and systems ; create a forces structure that would use the concepts, methods and systems most effectively and efficiently ; integrate these concepts, methods and systems into the force structure by providing military education, training, and practice that preferably resembles combat environment of intended use ; create military logistics systems to allow continued and uninterrupted performance of military organisations under combat conditions, including provision of health services to the personnel and maintenance for the equipment ; the services to assist recovery of wounded personnel and repair of damaged equipment ; and finally post-conflict demobilisation and disposal of war stocks surplus to peacetime requirements.

Often the relatives plead with him not to do this, since they know they may never see the person again .</ br > Rieux works to combat the plague simply because he is a doctor and his job is to relieve human suffering.

Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat.

However when there is true combat they are easily outgunned and lightly armored.

To combat this, they included a digital signature protection method which prevented unauthorized 7800 games from being played on the system.

In contrast, Jains agree with Hindus that violence in self-defense can be justified, and they agree that a soldier who kills enemies in combat is performing a legitimate duty.

These ex-Libyan Air Force MiG-21 ' Fishbed ' fighters were based in Ouagadougou, although they were actually operated by the Libyan Air Force on loan by Libya, and were removed in 1985 without seeing combat.

To the infantryman, there may be little to distinguish between combat as part of a minor raid or as a major offensive, nor is it likely that he anticipates the future course of the battle ; few of the British infantry who went over the top on the first day on the Somme, July 1, 1916, would have anticipated that they would be fighting the same battle in five months ' time.

In this way they depleted German combat power even as German forces advanced.

In World War I, the majority of combat fatalities were caused by artillery ; they were also used widely in World War II.

While the Amorphs have the ability to move fast, quietly, and sprout appendages at will, they excel at ' closer-than-melee-range combat, primarily " meme-toxins " against other Amorphs.

The blood type is generally not stamped on the dog tags as it may change ( rare ) and that, in combat situations, they give standard blood ( type 0 ) and, in hospitals, it is easier to check the blood than the tag.

The Obama administration responded by requesting that the policy be allowed to stay in place while they completed the process of assuring that its end would not impact combat readiness.

During the early stages of Volkssturm planning, it became apparent that if militia units lacked morale they would lack combat effectiveness.

Once engaged in combat, however, they must use an action to do so ( called re-attuning on the fly ), which requires a set difficulty they must achieve, or risk losing their turn.

In combat, they proved vulnerable to more agile single-engine fighters.

Because they fire pistol ammunition, they have limited long-range use, but in close combat can be used in fully automatic in a controllable manner due to the lighter recoil of the pistol ammunition.

According to Chinese sources, the meaning of the word Tūjué was " combat helmet " ( 兜鍪 ; Pinyin: dōumóu, Wade-Giles: tou-mou ), reportedly because the shape of the Jinshan ( 金山 jīnshān, Altai Mountains ), where they lived, was similar to a combat helmet-hence they called themselves 突厥 ( Tūjué / T ' u-chüeh ).

Those judged less harshly might be condemned ad ludum venatorium or ad gladiatorium – combat with animals or gladiators, in which they were armed as thought appropriate.