Modern ICBMs tend to be smaller than their ancestors, due to increased accuracy and smaller and lighter warheads, and use solid fuels, making them less useful as orbital launch vehicles.

Modern torpedoes utilize a variety of drive mechanisms, including gas turbines ( the British Spearfish ), monopropellants, and sulphur hexafluoride gas sprayed over a block of solid lithium.

Modern vehicles using what are commonly termed ' crumple zones ' provide far superior protection for their occupants in severe tests against other vehicles with crumple zones and solid static objects than older models or SUVs that use a separate chassis frame and have no crumple zones.

Modern ties appear in a wide variety of colours and patterns, notably striped ( usually diagonally ); club ties ( with a small motif repeated regularly all over the tie ); foulards ( with small geometric shapes on a solid background ); paisleys ; and solids.

Modern servomechanisms use solid state power amplifiers, usually built from MOSFET or thyristor devices.

Modern Lichtenberg Figures can also be created within solid insulating materials, such as acrylic ( polymethyl methacrylate or PMMA ) or glass by injecting them with a beam of high speed electrons from a linear electron beam accelerator ( or Linac, a type of particle accelerator ).

Modern pillows tend to be stronger and are often filled with a solid block of artificial filling, so breakage occurs far less frequently.

Modern caseless ammunition consists of a solid mass of propellant, originally nitrocellulose, cast into shape to form the body of the cartridge, with cavities to accept the bullet and a primer, preferably combustible, which are glued into place.

Modern isolation of pure parahydrogen has been achieved utilizing rapid in-vacuum deposition of millimeters thick solid parahydrogen ( pH2 ) samples which are notable for their excellent optical qualities.

It should be pointed out that while he used the Modern idea of freedom of elements, such as form, line, and movement, Thomas never abandoned the solid design principles of the past.

Modern solid state AC drives have seen elevator installations move to direct AC drive, which has more than a 50 % efficiency gain over DC machines with an MG set.

Modern interlockings ( those installed since the late 1980s ) are generally solid state, where the wired networks of relays are replaced by software logic running on special-purpose control hardware.

A recent report by Modern Railways claimed that a solid hourly service would operate on the line as far as Long Preston, but would serve Carlisle and Lancaster alternately.

The Czech Benoni is much more solid than the Modern Benoni, but it is also more passive.

Modern scholars believe that as a Roman senator, Tacitus had access to Acta Senatus, the Roman senate's records, thus providing a solid basis for his work.

Modern scholars believe that as a senator, Tacitus had access to Acta Senatus, the Roman senate's records, thus providing a solid basis for his work.

Modern televisions tend to be mostly solid state machines, while VCRs require mechanical manipulation of VHS tape and require occasional servicing.

Modern furniture making, however, tends to rely upon a combination of engineered woods and solid woods in frame making.

Modern sailors joining a tall ship are advised to take footwear with a solid sole that will spread the load, rather than the flexible deck shoes and seaboots used on yachts.

Modern physics explains this by noting that the n = 1 state holds 2 electrons, the n = 2 state holds 8 electrons, and the n = 3 state holds 8 electrons ( in argon ).

Modern commentators speculate ( or sometimes state as fact ) that Álfheim was one of the nine worlds ( heima ) mentioned in stanza 2 of the eddic poem Völuspá.

Modern theories give weight to intuition, perceptually observed properties, comparisons of categories among persons, and the direction of investigation towards known specified ends, to determine what humanity in its present state of being needs to consider irreducible.

Modern societies generally regard crimes as offences against the public or the state, as distinguished from torts ( wrongs against private parties that can give rise to a civil cause of action ).

Modern methods include the use of lossless data compression for incremental parsing, prediction suffix tree and string searching by factor oracle algorithm ( basically a factor oracle is a finite state automaton constructed in linear time and space in an incremental fashion ).

The tradition of diglossia, the simultaneous existence of vernacular and archaizing written forms of Greek, was renewed in the modern era in the form of a polarization between two competing varieties: Dimotiki, the vernacular form of Modern Greek proper, and Katharevousa, meaning ' purified ', an imitation of classical Greek, which was developed in the early 19th century and used for literary, juridic, administrative and scientific purposes in the newly formed modern Greek state.

Modern interpretations of Islamic texts advocate the unification of religion and state ruled by a Caliph.

Modern examples in this field include Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong and Kim Jong Il, whose tenures as heads of state were accompanied by a significant cult of personality.

The first Modern Islamic state ( with the possible exception of Zia's Pakistan ) was established among the Shia of Iran.

The Ottoman Empire ( Ottoman Turkish: د َ و ْ ل َ ت ِ ع َ ل ِ ي ّ ه ٔ ع ُ ثم َ ان ِ ی ّ ه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿO < u > s </ u > mâniyye Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ), also historically referred to as the Turkish Empire or Turkey, was a state founded by Turkish tribes under Osman Bey in northwestern Anatolia.

Modern PLCs can be programmed in a variety of ways, from the relay-derived ladder logic to programming languages such as specially adapted dialects of BASIC and C. Another method is State Logic, a very high-level programming language designed to program PLCs based on state transition diagrams.

At the beginning of the Modern age, some circles redubbed the HRR into the " Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation " (), a symptom of the formation of a German Nation state as opposed to the Multinational state the HRR was throughout its history.

With the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language by Jews in Israel, and its growth and officialization following the establishment of the state, most Samaritans in Israel today speak Modern Hebrew.

Modern historians have extensively debated the extent to which Stephen's personality, external events or the weaknesses in the Norman state contributed to this prolonged period of civil war.

Modern scholars Thomas B. McAffee and Michael J. Quinlan have stated that James Madison " did not invent the right to keep and bear arms when he drafted the Second Amendment ; the right was pre-existing at both common law and in the early state constitutions.

Modern communist states, which the People's Republic of China forms an example of, therefore prefer to define a framework of permissible, or even encouraged, criticism and self-determination by inferiors, which would not affect the major state doctrine, but allows the use of professional and expertise-driven knowledge and the use of it for the decision-making persons in office.

Modern Western magicians generally state magic's primary purpose to be personal spiritual growth.

Turner then took Wolf across the state border, re-recorded the tracks without Phillips ' or Chess's knowledge, and sent the results to Modern / RPM.

After the peace ending the Napoleonic wars reshaped Europe ushering in the Modern era, the Electorate of Hanover ( duchy of Brunswick and Lüneburg held in personal union by the king of Great Britain, George III ) was dissolved by treaty, its lands were enlarged, and the state promoted to a kingdom.

Modern geographers are the primary practitioners of the GIS ( geographic information system ), who are often employed by local, state, and federal government agencies as well as in the private sector by environmental and engineering firms.

Palenque ( Bàak ' in Modern Maya ) was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that flourished in the 7th century.

" Modern economists call it ' rent seeking ', but throughout recorded history, skilled crafts and professions have tried to raise their members ’ incomes by using the power of the state to limit entry.