Modern avionics is a substantial portion of military aircraft spending.

Modern warfare since the late Renaissance has relied upon firearms, with wide-ranging effects on military history and history in general.

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Modern historians assert that by October 1216 John faced a " stalemate ", " a military situation uncompromised by defeat ".

Modern air warfare technology and the invention of the atomic bomb had changed the importance of the military base.

Modern military doctrine, organization, and norms are all based on Napoleonic premises, even to this day — though whether these premises are necessarily also " Clausewitzian " is debatable.

Modern military rifles are fed by box magazines, while machine guns are generally ( but not always ) belt-fed.

Towards the end of its useful life, the sword served more as a weapon of self-defense than for use on the battlefield, and the military importance of swords steadily decreased during the Modern Age.

Modern wargaming originated with the military need to study warfare and to ' reenact ' old battles for instructional purposes.

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Modern Western historians are clearly divided on the importance of the battle, and where it should rank in military history ; see below.

Modern military aircraft typically employ afterburners on a low bypass turbofan core.

Modern military engineering still retains the Roman role of building field fortifications, road paving and the breaching of terrain obstacles.

* " Helmets ... A Medieval Note In Modern Warfare ", August 1942, Popular Science evolution of military helmets

Duels in this form were chiefly practised in Early Modern Europe, with precedents in the medieval code of chivalry, and continued into the modern period ( 19th to early 20th centuries ) especially among military officers.

Modern military theory attempts to challenge entrenched mindsets in dealing with asymmetric warfare, terrorism, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Modern klezmer instrumentation is more commonly influenced by the instruments of the 19th century military bands than the earlier orchestras. The orchestration employed by Joel Rubin — one of the most experienced and knowledgeable contemporary klezmer musicians — represents a historically justified link with that of contemporary ethnic music ensembles of Romania and Hungary.

Modern scholars such as Peter Partner and Malcolm Barber agree that the name of Baphomet was an Old French corruption of the name Muhammad, with the interpretation being that some of the Templars, through their long military occupation of the Outremer, had begun incorporating Islamic ideas into their belief system, and that this was seen and documented by the Inquisitors as heresy.

* Staff ( military )— see Modern United States military usage for organization of Joint Staff ( J1 through J8 )

In 2012, Modern War magazine began which covers post-WWII military history.

The council consists of film clips of actors portraying advisors in the areas of the military ( a brawny man, often drunk, angry or both ; he becomes a stereotypical American general when Modern Age is reached ), economics ( a smooth-talking merchant, later a snooty and suave businessman ), diplomacy ( in the Modern Age, a saucy femme fatale with a vaguely Eastern European accent ), technological progress ( a nerdy scientist ), and the people's happiness ( an Elvis Presley caricature, wearing sunglasses even in the Ancient period ).

Modern discourse generally speaks in terms of state power, indicating both economic and military power.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Modern field wear is New Zealand disruptive pattern material camouflage, which closely resembles British DPM field uniforms.

Modern German Forces " Gefreiter " rank insignia on corresponding flecktarn camouflage background

Modern solar cells last about 40 years, which makes them a reasonable investment in some areas.

: Modern styling: The Eurotram, used in Strasbourg has a modern design that makes it look almost as much like a train as a tram, and has large windows along its entire length.

Modern tanks possess very thick composite armour consisting of layers of steel, ceramics, plastics and Kevlar, and these materials have melting points well above the burning temperature of gasoline, which makes the vehicles themselves invulnerable to Molotov cocktails.

Modern optic fibre transmission makes use of Wavelength Division Multiplexing ( WDM ) where signals transmitted across the fibre are transmitted at different wavelengths, creating additional channels for transmission.

Modern speculation initiated by Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of Cornwall ( 1899 ) makes of him a tin merchant, whose connection with Britain came by the abundant tin mines of Cornwall.

Advertising for the film ( pictured at right ) boasted of the extravagant expense incurred in presenting the spectacle :" Actual Sinking of an Ocean Liner. Two Battleships Sunk by United States Navy .$ 18, 000 Used for Ammunition in One Battle. 40, 000 People Employed. 10, 000 Horses in Thrilling Cavalry Charges. 40 Aeroplanes in Great Air Battle. Every Death-dealing Device Known to Modern War in Operation. One Year in the Making. Cost $ 1, 000, 000. 00. Entire Cities Built and Destroyed. An Awe-inspiring Spectacle that one minute makes your blood run cold and another thrills you with its touches of human gentleness. The Story of the Greatest Love of the Ages —- the Love of Humanity.

Modern legislation divides the waqf as " charitable causes ", in which the beneficiaries are the public or the poor ) and " family " waqf, in which the founder makes the beneficiaries his relatives.

Modern research makes use of biology, neuroscience, cognitive science, linguistics, and information theory to study how the brain processes language.

* AAX (" Modern Bright ")-Cymbals made with the same techniques as their AA counterparts, but features Sabian's " Dynamic Focus ", which eliminates distortion and increases the cymbal's clarity, it also makes the cymbal react the same at all volumes.

Makers of recumbent trikes include KMX ; Hase ( who make the Kettwiesel delta, improbably named after the British children's programme Catweazle ); Inspired Cycle Engineering, who make the Trice range of tadpole trikes ; AVD, who build the record holding Burrows Windcheetah or Speedy, a design exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ); Australia's Greenspeed, one of the oldest manufacturers ; Michigan-based WhizWheelz, which makes 10 models, including a tadpole and a tandem ; Big Cat HPV which builds the eight Catrike models in Florida and Sidewinder Cycle which has a front wheel drive system with rear wheel steering builds 3 models all with Electric assist capability located in California.

* In the 1981 film comedy Modern Problems, Nell Carter ( as voodoo maid Dorita ) makes a big tray of really nice looking Zombies for vacationing guests Chevy Chase, Patti D ' Arbanville, Mary Kay Place and Brian Doyle-Murray in the living room of their beach house getaway.

Modern French makes extensive use of metathesis of syllables through a pattern of informal speech called verlan ( itself an example: verlan ← l ' envers, meaning ' the reverse ').

Christopher Hitchens in God is Not Great has argued that " Modern vernacular describes conscience-not too badly-as whatever it is that makes us behave well when nobody is looking ... Those who believe that the existence of conscience is a proof of a godly design are advancing an argument that simply cannot be disproved because there is no evidence for or against it.

For example, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times was shot at " silent speed " ( 18 fps ) but projected at " sound speed " ( 24 fps ), which makes the slapstick action appear even more frenetic.

Modern Swedish law makes no distinctions on the basis of nobility.

The doctrine of the four ages, a broad characterization of the attributes of Tradition and their manifestations in traditional societies makes up the first half of Evola's major work Revolt Against the Modern World.

“ What makes Modern Times decidedly different from Chaplin's previous three films are the political references and social realism that keep intruding into Charlie's world .” “ No comedian before or after him has spent more energy depicting people in their working lives .” “ Though there had been films depicting the lives of immigrants and urban workers, no filmmaker before Chaplin had created their experience so humanly and lovingly .”

Modern GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics, and their highly parallel structure makes them more effective than general-purpose CPUs for algorithms where processing of large blocks of data is done in parallel.

Modern langeleiks are somewhat curved, being wider at the middle, as it is the experience of modern instrument makers that this makes the instrument sound louder.

Modern congas use a screw-and-lug tension head system, which makes them easier to tune ( or detune ) this modern type of tension system is attributed to Carlos " Patato " Valdes a popular Cuban Conguero.

Modern Road Safety makes a distinction between the situation and the management systems necessary to control it, with prevention activities that largely exceeds the self-evident fields of the traditional 3 E ( Engineering, Enforcement, Education ) approach, first introduced in 1925.

" With the help of a professor, he conducted an online experiment and found that Comic Sans, in comparison to five other fonts ( Baskerville, Helvetica, Georgia, Trebuchet MS, and Computer Modern ), makes readers slightly less likely to believe that a statement they are reading is true.

Modern literature missions are shifting to web-based content where it makes sense ( as in Western Europe and Japan ).

At her first class, Katherine discovers that the girls have already memorized the entire syllabus from the textbook so she instead uses the classes to introduce them to Modern Art and encourages spirited classroom discussions about topics such as what makes good art and what the Mona Lisa's smile means.