Spiking an enemy's guns could also be done to prevent counterattacks and protect ships during withdrawal, as in the case of the Ranger's attack on Whitehaven during the American Revolutionary War.

Spiking their teas with sleeping drugs, sabotaging the car, overpowering Bassie at the beach and the elevator ; it all makes no sense, but upon arrival at Rotterdam Airport they lure the clown and his pet bird Sweety to their car and drag him inside.

Spiking retro electropop tendencies ( arguably similar to Kraftwerk, early Pet Shop Boys, and Gary Numan ) Fischerspooner utilizes a modern approach to programming.

Spiking trees became a federal offense in the United States when it was added to the Drug Act in 1988.

* Spiking the ball.

Spiking the ball is also considered to be a legal incomplete pass.

In 2009, the Liberty ( white ) train was ad-wrapped as an advertisement for one of the ride's sponsors, got2b Glued Styling Spiking Glue, a hair gel.

All Gatling Models 1895-1903 could be mounted on an armored field carriage.

To account for these motions, a calibration coil was mounted rigidly on the spacecraft to generate a reference magnetic field during calibrations.

This mounted a field gun, capable of both the usual artillery trajectories and high angle anti-aircraft fire, on a tank style chassis.

Some early attempts were often no more than a field gun or anti-tank gun mounted on a truck-a technique known in the British Army as carrying portee.

The Cowboys then mounted an eleven-play drive to the Miami 1-yard line which featured just one pass and a fake field goal attempt on fourth-and-one at the Miami 20-yard line.

After each team traded punts early in the second period, Miami mounted a seven-play drive starting from their own 35-yard line, culminating in a 28-yard field goal from kicker Garo Yepremian to make the score 17-0 midway through the second quarter.

Metal was more durable than leather and could better withstand the rigors of field use, particularly among troops mounted on horseback.

To maintain the field strength, Weston's design used a very narrow slot in which the coil was mounted, with a minimal air-gap and soft iron pole pieces ; this made the deflection of the instrument more linear with respect to coil current.

When a crystal of quartz is properly cut and mounted, it can be made to distort in an electric field by applying a voltage to an electrode near or on the crystal.

In this approach, a pleated diaphragm is mounted in a magnetic field and forced to close and open under control of a music signal.

As technology evolved pneumatic controllers were invented and mounted in the field that monitored the process and controlled the valves.

He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could ; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry.

The observer was equipped with a Scarff ring and had an uninterrupted field of fire as the fin and rudder were mounted beneath the fuselage.

The Soviets mounted only one large-scale airborne operation in World War II, despite their early leadership in the field in the 1930s.

A reciprocating probe is mounted on an arm that is moved into and back out of the plasma, usually in about one second by means of either a pneumatic drive or an electromagnetic drive using the ambient magnetic field.

The uniforms of Imperial military officers also bear resemblance to uniforms used in Nazi Germany as well as nineteenth-century Germany's ulans ( mounted lancers )— who wore a tunic, riding breeches, and boots like the Empire's officers wear — as well as the Imperial officers ' cap resembling the field caps historically worn by German and Austrian troops.

Binoculars, field glasses or binocular telescopes are a pair of identical or mirror-symmetrical telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point accurately in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes ( binocular vision ) when viewing distant objects.

The carronade was typically mounted on a sliding, rather than wheeled, gun carriage, and elevation was achieved with a turnscrew, like field guns, rather than the quoins ( wooden wedges ) usual for naval guns.

This is because of the difficulties in centering and focusing sometimes very dim objects in the narrow field of view, contending with magnified vibration and tracking errors, and the added expense of equipment ( such as sufficiently sturdy telescope mounts, camera mounts, camera couplers, off axis guiders, guide scopes, illuminated cross-hairs, or auto-guiders mounted on primary telescope or the guide-scope.

At the same time costs for the increasingly complex field shows mounted and creative and instructional demands rose leading many competitive corps to falter and become inactive.

That was until mounted police, including Police Constable George Scorey and his white horse, Billy, slowly pushed the masses back to the sides of the field of play for the FA Cup Final to start, just 45 minutes late.

The car may also be equipped with an additional battery ; dual footpedal controls, such as those used by driving instruction companies ( in case the driver is wounded or incapacitated ), a PA system with a microphone and a megaphone mounted on the outside of the car, so that the driver can give commands to other convoy vehicles or bodyguards who are on foot ; fire extinguishers inside the vehicle in case the vehicle is struck by a Molotov cocktail bomb or other weapon ; a reinforced front and rear bumper, to enable the driver to ram attacking vehicles ; and additional mirrors, to give the driver a better field of view.

The Heer * model of the M43 was made of field gray wool lined with gray cotton ( there were some color variations ), with varied insignia styles, including 2 separate insignia pieces mounted one above the other ( eagle on top, cockade below ), a 1-piece trapezoid insignia with the national eagle and cockade within the trapezoid, and a T-shaped insignia ( again, with the eagle above the cockade ).

Instruments can be mounted at a Cassegrain focus below the primary mirror, in enclosures on either of two Nasmyth focal points on the sides of the telescope mount, to which light can be directed with a tertiary mirror, or, in an arrangement rare on large telescopes, at the prime focus, in lieu of a secondary mirror, to provide a wide field of view suited to deep wide-field surveys.

This change was pushed forward by the development of heavier naval guns ( the ironclads of the 1880s carried some of the heaviest guns ever mounted at sea ), more sophisticated steam engines, and advances in metallurgy which made steel shipbuilding possible.

This features a main artillery gun, mounted in a fully rotating turret atop a tracked automotive hull, with various additional machine guns throughout.

Anti-aircraft guns are usually mounted in a quickly-traversing turret with a high rate of elevation, for tracking fast-moving aircraft.

Today, missiles ( generally mounted on similar turrets ) have largely supplanted anti-aircraft guns.

Historically the custom-built fully armored assault guns usually mounted the gun or howitzer in a fully enclosed casemate on a tank chassis.

After hard lessons early in the war, machine guns were mounted for use against infantry but the limited traverse of the mounting meant that they were still less effective than those used on turreted tanks.

Captured Soviet anti-tank guns were mounted on modified Panzer II chassis, producing the Marder II self-propelled anti-tank gun.

Anti-aircraft guns are usually mounted in a quickly-traversing turret with a high rate of elevation, for tracking fast-moving aircraft.

Today, missiles ( generally mounted on similar turrets ) have largely supplanted anti-aircraft guns.

Anti-aircraft machine guns have long been mounted on trucks, and these were quite common during World War I.

The British developed their own SPAAGs throughout the war mounting multiple machine guns and light cannon on various tank and armoured car chassis and by 1943, the Crusader AA tanks, which mounted the Bofors 40 mm gun or two-three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

* Self-propelled artillery: typically guns, mortars or gun howitzers mounted on a vehicle.

* Naval artillery: guns mounted on warships and used either against other ships or in support of ground forces.

The landing party removed four of the guns and destroyed the rest along with the fort they were mounted in, renaming the island " Nelson's Island ".

Once the front lines stabilised, a combination of barbed wire, machine guns and rapid fire rifles proved deadly to horse mounted troops.

Moreover, the Polish cavalry brigade order of battle of 1939 included, apart from the mounted soldiers themselves, light and heavy machine guns ( wheeled ), Anti-tank rifle, model 35, anti-aircraft weapon, artillery like Bofors 37 mm anti tank gun or light and scout tanks, etc.

| guns = 2 × Door mounted GAU-15 / A. 50 BMG ( 12. 7 x 99 mm ) machine guns ( optional ), 1 Ramp mounted M240D 7. 62 x 51 mm machine gun ( optional )

Above deck, one or more quick-firing guns were mounted in the bows, in front of the bridge ; several more were mounted amidships and astern.

This changed from the Type 1936 onwards, which mounted heavy 150 mm guns.

Eventually, most fighters mounted cannons, sometimes in combination with machine guns.