Early tank-mounted flamethrower vehicles included the ' Badger ' ( a converted Ram tank ) and the ' Oke ', used first at Dieppe ; the most famous flame tank was the Churchill Crocodile.

Early lampworking was done in the flame of an oil lamp, with the artist blowing air into the flame through a pipe.

Early research used an expensive additive called fumed silica, an amorphous form of silica made by combustion of silicon tetrachloride in a hydrogen-oxygen flame.

Early in the war, the Germans began to create makeshift assault guns by mounting their infantry support weapons on the bed of a truck or on obsolete tanks with the turret removed.

Early reports estimated that $ 6 – 20 billion had been spent by the U. S. and Saudi Arabia but more recent reports state that the U. S. and Saudi Arabia provided as much as up to $ 40 billion in cash and weapons, which included over two thousand FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, for building up Islamic groups against the Soviet Union.

Early hunter-gatherer tribes made stone weapons from around 10, 000 years ago ; as the age of metallurgy dawned, newer technologies were used and more efficient weapons produced.

* Early thermal weapons

) Early prototypes were essentially single-use weapons, requiring complete replacement of the rails after each firing.

* c. 1600 BC: Early Mycenaean culture: weapons, Cyclopaean walls, and chariots.

* Early thermal weapons

Finds from Llyn Fawr, thought to be votive offerings, include weapons and tools from the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age.

Early tanks were not weapons of mobile warfare — with a top speed of, they were easily outpaced by the infantry — but were designed for trench warfare.

Since 2003, Bahrain has been granted over $ 100 million in Foreign Military Funding to pay for various high profile weapons systems, to include an AN / TPS-59 ( v ) 3B Early Warning Radar, Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures ( LAIRCM ), Air-to-Air Missile Avoidance System for the King's Plane ( Boeing 747-400 ), as well as an Avenger Air Defense Vehicle.

* Early thermal weapons

Early gunpowder weapons were introduced to England from the 1320s onwards and began to appear in Scotland by the 1330s.

* Early thermal weapons

* Early thermal weapons

Early weapons used an " urchin " inside the pit containing polonium-210 and beryllium separated by a thin barrier.

* Early thermal weapons

Early trials by combat allowed a variety of weapons, particularly for knights.

Early attempts at rapid-firing weapons in general failed to reach widespread usage due to lack of interest as well as technological limitations, such as the difficulty in manufacturing parts to sufficiently fine tolerances.

* Early thermal weapons

" Early on he opposed the Anglo-American military installation on the nearby island of Diego Garcia because of the possible storage of nuclear weapons and alleged detention of terrorist suspects at that location.

Early in 1991 the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq ( UNSCOM ) was established to oversee the destruction of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Early in 2010 and 2011, United States Marines recovered at least three from various Taliban weapons caches in Marjah.

Early aerial combat consisted of aviators shooting at one another with hand held weapons.

While the earliest artifacts date to the Middle Neolithic era, there have been documented habitations in Attica from the Early Neolithic ( 6th millennium BC ).

However, despite earlier concepts of a strict Early Historic evolution, Irish excavations are increasingly uncovering examples which date to the ' missing ' Iron Age in Ireland.

Early 58 and early 55 both have some support, while German New Testament scholar Gerd Lüdemann argues for a date as early as 51 / 52 ( or 54 / 55 ) following on from Knox who proposed 53 / 54.

Early uses of waterpower date back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, where irrigation has been used since the 7th millennium BC and water clocks had been used since the early 2nd millennium BC.

Early tests at different laboratories returned conflicting dates for the body ; later tests suggested a date between 2 BC and 119 AD.

Early in the year, the Welsh forces suffered a series of defeats — which was a bad sign as to date, the rebellion had seen many easy defeats of the English forces.

The earliest remains consist of extensive rock cut installations, initially thought to date to the Early Bronze Age by Kenyon, these have recently been re-evaluated, first by Stager and then by Franklin, and are now recognized to be the remains of an extensive early Iron Age oil and wine industry ( designated Building Period 0 ).

These tombs, which date to the Early Dynastic IIIa period ( approximately in the 25th or 24th century BC ), contained immense amounts of luxury items made out of precious metals, and semi-precious stones all of which would have had to been imported from long distances ( Iran, Afghanistan, India, Asia Minor, the Persian Gulf ).

Chandela dynasty, Early Medieval period ( approximate date ).

Early Medieval period ( approximate date ).

Early descriptions of the condition date from 1779, and its viral cause and the transmission were elucidated in the early 20th century.

Fossil mackerel shark teeth date to the Early Cretaceous.

The fossil record shows that monotremes have been present in Australia since the Early Cretaceous 145 – 99 MYA, and that marsupials and placental mammals date from the Eocene 56 – 34 MYA, when modern mammals first appeared in the fossil record.

Early string instruments have been excavated in ancient Mesopotamia, like the lyres of Ur, which date to 2500 BC.

* The archaic period of sculpture ends in Greece and is succeeded by the Severe ( Early Classical ) period ( approximate date ).

Early ideas of decomposing a periodic function into the sum of simple oscillating functions date back to the 3rd century BC, when ancient astronomers proposed an empiric model of planetary motions, based on deferents and epicycles.

* The Early Horizon period in the Andes comes to an end as the Chavin culture vanishes and is succeeded by the Nazca culture ( approximate date ).

* The Severe ( Early Classical ) period of sculpture ends in Ancient Greece and is succeeded by the Mature Classical period ( approximate date ).

The Oxford Middleton and its companion piece, Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture, offer the most extensive and decisive evidence to date not only for Middleton's authorship of The Revenger's Tragedy, but also for his collaboration with Shakespeare on Timon of Athens and his adaptation and revision of Shakespeare's Macbeth and Measure for Measure.

Early uses of water power date back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, where irrigation has been used since the 6th millennium BC and water clocks had been used since the early 2nd millennium BC.

Early ( the exact date is unknown ) he married Valeria Maximilla, the daughter of Galerius.

: Early references to Sulcze in documents of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen date from 1410 and 1430.

A date of no earlier than 1100 BCE for the Huastecs ’ arrival at their present location seems most likely, since they probably had not arrived at the north-central Veracruz site of Santa Luisa until about 1200 BCE, the phase at the end of the Early Formative period known locally as the " Ojite phase.

The area of " Hees ", now at the outskirts of Soest may date in to the Early Middle Ages, and prehistoric burial mounds in the Soesterduinen point to early habitation in this area.