Modern body armor may combine a ballistic vest with other items of protective clothing, such as a combat helmet.

Modern inter-continental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ), contain a maneuverable orbiting bus that positions and releases ballistic warheads in space using celestial navigation.

Modern safety technology applications like composite fiber re-enforced Kevlar cockpits, capsule-enclosed driver modules with improved safety harness systems ( in PRO, OPC, and limited / unlimited inboard hydroplanes ), flip-over incident escape hatches & engine shut-off features, oxygen system & aircraft-quality windscreen canopies for capsule hulls, and advanced ballistic impact-resistant suits with improved helmet / neck brace wear — all of these improvements making the boats and specialized personal protection gear safer for the present-day driver.

Modern equivalent may combine a ballistic vest with other items of protective clothing, such as a combat helmet.

Modern flak jackets and ballistic vests are based on the same principle: a protective cloth vest containing metal plates.

Modern riot shields can not be designed to adequately provide ballistic protection against firearms while remaining light in weight, but can still protect the police officers against objects ( such as bricks or bottles or even Molotov cocktails ) that are thrown towards the riot police.

Modern applications of ballistic nylon include luggage, cave packs, tool belts, police duty belts, watchstraps, motorcycle jackets, and skin-on-frame kayaks.

Modern cruise missiles can travel at supersonic or high subsonic speeds, are self-navigating, and can fly on a non-ballistic, extremely low altitude trajectory.

Modern destroyers, also known as guided missile destroyers, are equivalent in tonnage but vastly superior in firepower to cruisers of the World War II era, capable of carrying nuclear missiles.

Category: Modern surface-to-air missiles of the United Kingdom

Category: Modern surface-to-air missiles

Certain games such as the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 are heavily based around " killstreak rewards " which are abilities that grant the player a tactical advantage in the form of high powered support weaponry such as pavelow helicopters or predator missiles.

Modern AEW & C systems can detect aircraft from up to away, well out of range of most surface-to-air missiles.

Category: Modern surface-to-air missiles of the United Kingdom

Category: Modern surface-to-air missiles

Modern missiles use “ low-smoke ” motors — early missiles produced thick smoke trails, which were easily seen by the crew of the target aircraft alerting them to the attack and helping them determine how to evade it.

Modern aircraft tend to rely on missiles, radar, or laser-guided sights to track the enemy, thereby making the use of tracers inessential.

Category: Modern surface-to-air missiles

Modern anti-ship missiles make intentional erratic moves before impact, reducing the probability of being hit by unguided projectiles.

Category: Modern surface-to-air missiles

Modern submarine warfare consists primarily of diesel and nuclear submarines using weapons ( like torpedoes, missiles or nuclear weapons ), as well as advanced sensing equipment, to attack other submarines, ships, or land targets.

Category: Modern missiles of the United Kingdom

Category: Modern surface-to-air missiles

Category: Modern surface-to-air missiles

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.

Category: Modern British anti-ship missiles

Modern cruisers, destroyers and frigates are called Surface combatants and act mainly as escorts for aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, auxiliaries and civilian craft, but the largest ones have gained a land attack role through the use of cruise missiles and a population defense role through Missile defense.

) Modern all-aspect missiles like the AIM-9M Sidewinder and FIM-92 Stinger use compressed gas or liquid nitrogen to cool their sensors in order to lock onto the target at longer ranges and all aspects.

Modern writers, who are supposed to keep their fingers firmly upon the pulse of their subjects, insist upon drawing out this legend, prolonging its burial, when it well deserves a rest after the overexploitation of the past century.

Modern embroidered panels, framed and meant to be hung on the wall, are another aspect of this trend.

Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.

Modern music is available in several facets: raï music is a style typical of Western Algeria with his two fiefs are Oran and Sidi Bel Abbès.

Modern discussions of alchemy are generally split into an examination of its exoteric practical applications, and its esoteric aspects.

Modern definitions are concerned with the fundamental chemical reactions common to all acids.

Modern critics are more likely to find fault with the narrow definition of the citizen body, but in the ancient world the complaint if anything went in the opposite direction.

Modern antibiotics are tested using a method similar to Fleming's discovery

Modern arrows are made to a specified ' spine ', or stiffness rating, to maintain matched flexing and hence accuracy of aim.

Modern blóts are celebrated several times during the year.

Modern IFVs are well-armed infantry carriers, differencing from earlier APCs by their heavier armament allowing them to give direct-fire support during an assault.

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

* Modern Christians typically believe it is acceptable to play instruments or to attend weddings, funerals, banquets, etc., where instruments are heard.

Modern cisterns are usually large plastic tanks.

Modern CPUs are typically 2-operand or 3-operand machines — the additional operands specify which one of many general purpose registers ( also called " general purpose accumulators ") are used as the source and destination for calculations.

Modern bridge are currently built in concrete, steel, fiber reinforced polymers ( FRP ), stainless steel or combinations of those materials.

Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton.

Modern steal rules were fully implemented in 1898, and steals are now only credited when a runner successfully takes an extra base while the ball is being pitched, but not already hit.

Modern bicycle brakes may be: rim brakes, in which friction pads are compressed against the wheel rims ; internal hub brakes, in which the friction pads are contained within the wheel hubs ; or disc brakes, with a separate rotor for braking.

Modern variants of the Batavian founding myth are made more credible by pointing out that the Batavians were only part of the ancestry of the Dutch people, together with the Frisians, Franks and Saxons, and by tracing patterns of DNA.

Modern scholars have instead proposed that, with the eponymous Benjamin being just a metaphor, son of the south / son of the right are references to the tribe's being subordinate to the more dominant tribe of Ephraim.

Modern boomerangs used for sport are often made from carbon fibre-reinforced plastics, thin aircraft plywood, or other high-tech materials.

Modern clay bricks are formed in one of three processes-soft mud, dry press, or extruded.