Modern screen-based light guns work on the opposite principle -- the sensor is built into the gun itself, and the on-screen target ( s ) emit light rather than the gun.

Modern screen-based light guns work on the opposite principle — the sensor is built into the gun itself, and the on-screen target ( s ) emit light rather than the gun.

Modern figures give a proper motion of 7 arcseconds / year, distance 30 light years, so the displacement is 3 arcminutes and a half.

Modern carbines use ammunition ranging from that used in light pistols up to powerful rifle cartridges, with the usual exception of high velocity magnum cartridges.

The Talmud describes the blind as having " much light " ( Aramaic סגי נהור ) and this phrase — sagee nahor — is the Modern Hebrew for euphemism.

Modern electric light sources come in a profusion of types and sizes adapted to a myriad of applications.

Modern methods of reading palimpsests using ultraviolet light and photography are less damaging.

Modern techniques using excimer laser lithography already print features with dimensions a fraction of the wavelength of light used-an amazing optical feat.

Modern vector graphics displays can sometimes be found at laser light shows, where two fast-moving X-Y mirrors position the beam to rapidly draw shapes and text as straight and curved strokes on a screen.

Modern Border Tartans are almost invariably a bold black and white check, but historically the light squares were the yellowish colour of untreated wool, with the dark squares any of a range of dark greys, blues, greens or browns ; hence the alternative name of " Border Drab ".

Modern toilet paper may have a light coating of aloe or lotion or wax worked into the paper to reduce roughness.

Modern day sleighs combine light metals, steel runners, and an aerodynamic composite body.

Modern fibers have a primary polymer overcoat with a refractive index that is slightly higher than that of the cladding, so that light propagating in the cladding is rapidly attenuated and disappears after only a few centimeters of propagation.

Eating fresh " garden " peas before they were matured was a luxurious innovation of the Early Modern period: by contrast with the coarse, traditional peasant fare of pease pottage, Potage Saint-Germain, made of fresh peas and other fresh greens braised in light stock and pureed, was an innovation sufficiently refined that it could be served to Louis XIV of France, for whose court at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye it was named, ca 1660-80.

Modern light rail technology is flexible and adaptable, and whether any given system is considered a true rapid transit system or not depends on its characteristics.

Modern light rail technology has primarily German origins, since an attempt by Boeing Vertol to introduce a new American light rail vehicle was a technical failure.

* 4000 BC – First use of light wooden ploughs in Mesopotamia ( Modern day Iraq )

Modern top-of-the-line total stations no longer require a reflector or prism ( used to return the light pulses used for distancing ) to return distance measurements, are fully robotic, and can even e-mail point data to the office computer and connect to satellite positioning systems, such as a Global Positioning System.

Modern normative Judaism is in opposition to the lifestyle of asceticism and sometimes cast the Nazirite vow in a critical light.

Modern microscopes allow more than just observation of transmitted light image of a sample ; there are many techniques which can be used to extract other kinds of data.

Modern films, however, seem to cast stepfathers in a somewhat kinder light, implying honorable men who marry divorced women or single mothers make good stepfathers.

Modern skirts are usually made of light to mid-weight fabrics, such as denim, jersey, worsted, or poplin.

Modern varieties often place an electric light in a decorative glass case.

Modern faro beer is still characterized by the use of brown sugar and lambic, but is not necessarily a light beer.

Modern 155 mm guns have a primer magazine fitted to their breech.

Modern machine guns are usually mounted in one of four ways.

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

Modern six guns are used commonly by Single-Action Shooting enthusiasts in shooting competitions, designed to mimic the gunfights of the Old West, and for general target shooting and personal defense.

Modern guns instead fire semi-armor-piercing high-explosive ( SAPHE ) shells, which have less anti-armor capability, but far greater anti-materiel / personnel effects.

Modern muzzleloading firearms range from reproductions of sidelock, flintlock and percussion long guns, to in-line rifles that use modern inventions such as a closed breech, sealed primer and fast rifling to allow for considerable accuracy at long ranges.

Modern radar speed guns normally operate at X, K, K < sub > a </ sub >, IR Band ( infrared ), and ( in Europe ) K < sub > u </ sub > bands.

Modern light machine guns often fire smaller-caliber cartridges than medium machine guns, and are usually lighter and more compact.

Modern light machine guns are designed to fire more rounds of a smaller caliber and, as such, tend to be belt-fed from a detachable box magazine, some such as the FN Minimi will also accept rifle magazine feeding as an auxiliary measure when belted ammunition has been exhausted.

Modern artillery was very limited, short range guns of the great war era or older where the norm.

Modern arsenals were established at places like Hanyang Arsenal, which produced German Mauser rifles and mountain guns.

Modern tank guns are large-caliber high-velocity guns, capable of firing kinetic energy penetrators, high explosive anti-tank rounds, and in some cases guided missiles.

Modern French 100 mm naval guns are multipurpose artillery pieces ( anti-air, anti-ship, ground ), capable of a high rate of fire.

Modern armoured warfare began with the need to break the tactical, operational and strategic stalemates forced on commanders on the Western Front by the effectiveness of entrenched defensive infantry armed with machine guns — known as trench warfare.

Modern Soviet tanks, like the ones mentioned, are typically armed with 125mm smooth bore guns.

Modern simulations used by military and police also now include a wide range of simulated weapons and scenarios, from force on force scenarios using paintball gun technology to life sized, computer animated simulations projected in special 360 degree theaters, using advanced light guns with force feedback to simulate recoil.

Modern infantry machine guns often have feed systems allowing the use of linked ammunition or other forms of feed like magazines or drums.

Modern writers often state that the confederates acclaimed the London Armoury Company's guns ( which would include the first-class model 1853 rifle-muskets on the Enfield pattern ) as the best weapons delivered to the Confederacy.