Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

One of the roles of Ares that was sited in mainland Greece itself was in the founding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by Cadmus, for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung up as the fully armored autochthonic Spartoi.

Although the early German Panzerjäger carried more effective weapons than the tanks on which they were based, they were generally lacking in protection for the crew, having thinly armored open-topped superstructures.

These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a number of military armored vehicles were manufactured by adding armor and weapons to existing vehicles.

A great variety of armored cars appeared on both sides during World War I and these were used in various ways.

Generally, the armored cars were used by more or less independent car commanders.

Some of these vehicles were among the last of a consignment of ex-Royal Navy armored cars that had been serving in the Middle East since 1915.

During the Anglo-Iraqi War, some of the units located in the British Mandate of Palestine were sent to Iraq and drove Fordson armored cars.

" Fordson " armored cars were Rolls Royce armored cars which received new chassis from a Fordson truck in Egypt.

For the first time, armored cars or limousines were put into service for safer transport, with modern versions virtually invulnerable to small arms fire, smaller bombs and mines.

Both, but especially the former, were famed for the cataphract ( fully armored cavalry armed with lances ) even though the majority of their forces consisted of lighter horse archers.

This is closely related to the increase in the size of armies throughout the early modern period ; heavily armored cavalrymen were expensive to raise and maintain and it took years to replace a skilled horseman or a trained horse, while arquebusiers and later musketeers could be trained and kept in the field at much lower cost, and were much easier to replace.

The demi-lancers and the heavily armored sword-and-pistol reiters were among the types of cavalry whose heyday was in the 16th and 17th centuries, as for the Polish winged hussars, a heavy cavalry force that achieved great success against Swedes, Russians, and Turks.

The weapon was mainly used as a weapon against lightly armored soldiers, since it shot small bolts that were often dipped in poison.

There were also an armored car regiment and a mechanized infantry battalion.

As an interim measure, the propeller blades were armored and fitted with metal wedges to protect the pilot from ricochets.

Under the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ( 1978 – 1992 ), weapon deliveries by the Soviets were increased and included Mi-24 helicopters, MiG-23 fighter aircraft, ZSU-23-4 " Shilka " and ZSU-57-2 anti-aircraft self-propelled mounts, MT-LB armored personnel carriers, BM-27 " Uragan " and BM-21 " Grad " multiple-launch rocket systems and FROG-7 and Scud launchers.

U. S. armored infantry were fully equipped with M2 and M3 halftracks.

In the British and Commonwealth armies, " Type A Armoured Brigades "— which were intended for independent operations or to form part of armored divisions — had a " motor infantry " battalion mounted in Bren Carriers or later in Lend-Lease halftracks.

The Red Army began the war while still in the process of reorganizing its armored and mechanized formations, most of which were destroyed during the first months of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

In Operation Desert Shield during the buildup phase of the 1st Gulf War, the U. S. Army were concerned about the lack of mobility, protection and firepower offered by existing rapid deployment ( i. e. airborne ) formations ; and also about the slowness of deploying regular armored units.

The Achzarit ( אכזרית in Hebrew: " cruel ", female inflection ) is a heavily armored armored personnel carrier manufactured by the Israeli Defence Forces Corps of Ordnance.

For example, there are Sisu brand trucks ( and Sisu armored vehicles ), icebreaker MS Sisu, a brand of strong-tasting pastilles manufactured by Leaf

Some P4 armored CBH have been manufactured for use in Lebanon.

The armed car was invented by Royal Page Davidson at Northwestern Military and Naval Academy in 1898 with the Davidson-Duryea gun carriage and the later Davidson Automobile Battery armored car.

It was conducted at the Koren range, and included some 1, 700 personnel with tanks, ATGMs, attack aircraft, AA guns and armored vehicles.

The army at that time operated AMX-13 light tanks, AML H60 and H90 armored cars, French 105mm howitzers, and mortars of 81mm and 120mm caliber.

Knights and mercenaries deployed in triangular formations, with the most heavily armored knights at the front.

The conflict began on July 12, 2006 when Hezbollah militants fired rockets at Israeli border towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence, killing three, injuring two, and seizing two Israeli soldiers.

The M1116 features an expanded cargo area, armored housing for the turret gunner and increased interior heating and air conditioning system. The M1114 and M1116 receive armor at O ' Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company of Fairfield, Ohio.

Though many nations ' armored formations included an organic mechanized infantry component at the start of World War II, the proportion of mechanized infantry in such combined arms formations was increased by most armies as the war progressed.

The Flemish footmen at the Battle of the Golden Spurs met and overcame French knights in 1302, and the Scots held their own against heavily armored English invaders.

The Germans had not arranged for armored personnel carriers ahead of time and only at this point were they called in to break the deadlock.

No armored vehicles were at the scene at Fürstenfeldbruck, and were only called in after the gunfight was well underway.

Most geologists and paleontologists would probably set the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic boundary either at the classic point where the first trilobites and reef building animals ( archaeocyatha ) such as corals and others appear ; at the first appearance of a complex feeding burrow called Treptichnus pedum ; or at the first appearance of a group of small, generally disarticulated, armored forms termed ' the small shelly fauna '.

During the socialist administration of Siad Barre, Somalia was at first closely aligned with the Soviet Union, a relationship which enabled it to amass among the largest armored and mechanized forces on the continent.

In consequence, Army forces deploying to Africa suffered serious initial reverses when encountering German armored combat units in Africa at Kasserine Pass and other major battles.

It was this article that at last revealed to the general public how the fabled Bazooka actually worked against armored vehicles during World War II.

The militants then started to shoot at the bus, firing through the unprotected roof and throwing grenades through the narrow upper windows, which are not armored.

During their assignment at Fort Riley, Kansas, Patton and Eisenhower developed the armored doctrine which would be used by the US Army in World War II.

Developed originally by Gen. Elwood Quesada of IX TAC for the First Army at Operation Cobra the technique of " armored column cover " whereby close air support was directed by an air traffic controller in one of the attacking tanks was used extensively by the Third Army.

Chariots would continue to serve as command posts for officers during the Qin and Han dynasties, while armored chariots were also used during the Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu Confederation in the Han – Xiongnu War, specifically at the Battle of Mobei.

These Almogavars were much more agile than the heavily armored knights with swords, as his enemies often used, especially on the moving deck of a galley at sea.

* The first was a second-class pre-dreadnought battleship ( launched in 1889, originally classified as an armored cruiser ) whose sinking by an explosion, either internal or by a mine, on February 15, 1898 at 9: 40 p. m. killing 266, precipitated the Spanish-American War.