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

Modern cisterns are usually large plastic tanks.

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

Modern amenities were unknown ; telephones were unknown, drinking water was collected in tanks from roofs and at night the rooms were lit by oil lamps.

Modern dinghies will usually have built in buoyancy tanks, older craft will have bags or retrofitted tanks.

Modern arms of the Blue Army, especially airplanes and Renault FT-17 tanks enhanced the Polish Armed Forces yet to be founded.

Modern street sweepers are equipped with water tanks and sprayers used to loosen particles and reduce dust.

Modern rocket propelled grenades can penetrate almost of steel armour, posing a serious threat to tanks operating in environments of asymmetric warfare.

Modern environmental regulations either discourage or ban the use of cesspools, and instead connections to municipal sewage systems or septic tanks are encouraged or required.

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

Modern tankers also use segregated ballast tanks and these remove the problem of discharge of ballast water.

Modern western tanks ' frontal armour protection is far in excess of what can be penetrated by a 100 mm gun – even using the most modern APFSDS round.

Modern animals that possess feathery or furry coats, like Velociraptor did, tend to be warm-blooded, since these coverings function as insulation.

Despite the lack of financial backing and grants, they persisted and the first device was implanted in February 1980 at Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. Modern ICDs do not require a thoracotomy and possess pacing, cardioversion, and defibrillation capabilities.

Modern pharmacology studies demonstrated that its crude extracts and active compounds possess wide pharmacological actions, especially in antimicrobial, antibacterial, antioxidant, insecticidal, analgesic, sedative and convulsive activities.

Despite the lack of financial backing and grants, they persisted and the first device was implanted in February 1980 at Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr. Modern ICDs do not require a thoracotomy and possess pacing, cardioversion, and defibrillation capabilities.

Modern moorings may be anchored by sand screws which look and act very much like oversized screws drilled into the seabed, or by barbed metal beams pounded in ( or even driven in with explosives ) like pilings, or a variety of other non-mass means of getting a grip on the bottom.

It is written in English, very similar to the Early Modern English linguistic style of the King James Version of the Bible, and has since been fully or partially translated into 108 languages.

Modern scholarship tends to favour a Syriac origin ; but even so, the exercise must have been repeated in Greek very shortly afterwards — probably by Tatian himself.

Modern glass intended for windows is produced as float glass and is very uniform in thickness.

Modern scholars generally turn to Herodotus's own writing for reliable information about his life, very carefully supplemented with other ancient yet much later sources, such as the Byzantine Suda:

Modern facsimilies are reported to steer quite well but require a very large amount of physical effort compared to the modern fore and aft tiller.

Modern group theory — a very active mathematical discipline — studies groups in their own right.

Modern dark mild varies from dark amber to near-black in colour and is very light-bodied.

Modern neuroscience education and research activities can be very roughly categorized into the following major branches, based on the subject and scale of the system in examination as well as distinct experimental or curricular approaches.

Modern perception of war are based on the concepts Clausewitz put forth in On War, though these have been very diversely interpreted by various leaders ( e. g., Moltke, Vladimir Lenin, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mao Zedong, etc.

#* Modern Unitarians consider Jefferson's views to be very close to theirs.

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.

This new configuration became very popular in the Boston area, and by the fall of 1971, enthusiastic word-of-mouth led to the Modern Lovers ' first exposure to a major label when Stuart Love of Warner Bros. Records contacted them and organized the band's first multi-track session at Intermedia Studio in Boston.

Modern preambles are sometimes structured as a single very long sentence formatted into multiple paragraphs for readability, in which each of the paragraphs begins with a verb ( desiring, recognizing, having, and so on ).

The word tor ( Cornish tor, Old Welsh twrr, Modern Welsh tŵr, Scots Gaelic tòrr ), meaning hill, is notable for being one of the very few Celtic loanwords to be borrowed into vernacular English before the modern era – such borrowings are mainly words of a geographic or topographical nature.

Modern hydroponic farming produces very high yields in greenhouses without using any soil.

It was condemned by Ruskin as the very model of mechanical dehumanisation in design, but later came to be presented as the prototype of Modern architecture.

Modern designs tend to have a very wide beam and a flat bottom aft, to provide buoyancy preventing an excessive heel angle and to promote surfing and planning.

Wish Tree, her installation in the Sculpture Garden – Museum of Modern Art, New York ( since July 2010 ), has become very popular with contributions from all over the world.

In A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), H. W. Fowler states that applying the word nigger to " others than full or partial negroes " is " felt as an insult by the person described, & betrays in the speaker, if not deliberate insolence, at least a very arrogant inhumanity "; but the second edition ( 1965 ) states: " N. has been described as ' the term that carries with it all the obloquy and contempt and rejection which whites have inflicted on blacks.

Modern electrometers based on vacuum tube or solid-state technology can be used to make voltage and charge measurements with very low leakage currents, down to 1 femtoampere.

Modern DSL gateways have more functionality and usually go through an initialization procedure very similar to a PC boot up.

Modern ice rods are typically very short spinning rods, varying between 24 and 36 inches in length.

Modern historians believe that this idea of mass British troop settlement in Brittany by Maximus may very well reflect some reality, as it accords with other historical evidence and later Breton traditions.

One variety of terebinth furnishes the pistachio nut and the thick bark of the tree is a source of a highly valued varnish and particular turpentine ( Modern French, térébenthine ).

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, or " Didone ", fonts have high contrast between thick and thin elements, and their axis of " stress " or thickening is perfectly vertical.

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.

Modern optical tables are typically made of top and bottom sheets of steel, aluminum, or carbon fiber, separated by a thick honeycomb lattice structure.

Modern CNC plasma equipment is capable of multi-axis cutting of thick material, allowing opportunities for complex welding seams that are not possible otherwise.

In this poem, the river appears to be named " Darwent ," giving evidence of its derivation from a Brythonic dialect form similar to the Old Welsh derwenyd ( Modern Welsh derwenydd ), meaning " valley thick with oaks ".

Modern laminates consist of 1 / 16 inch ( 1. 6 mm ) thick sheets of wood, usually birch, which are impregnated with epoxy, laid with alternating grain directions, and cured at high temperatures and pressures.

Modern U. S. currency, regardless of denomination, is 2. 61 inches ( 66. 3 mm ) wide, 6. 14 inches ( 156 mm ) long, and 0. 0043 inches ( 0. 109 mm ) thick.