Armour is being supplemented with active protection systems on a number of vehicles, allowing the AFV to protect itself from incoming projectiles.

In 1918, the British Mk V tank was capable of carrying a small number of troops and in 1944, the Canadian general Guy Simonds ordered the conversion of redundant armoured vehicles to carry troops ( generically named " Kangaroos ").

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

While most urban and suburban transport in Bulgaria is composed of buses ( using an increasing number of CNG vehicles ), around a dozen cities also have trolley bus networks.

Commercial vehicles, such as trucks and buses, were insufficient in number and lacked the spare parts necessary to keep them running.

Among the more well-known clown stunts are: squirting flower ; the " too-many-clowns-coming-out-of-a-tiny-car " stunt ; doing just about anything with a rubber chicken, tripping over ones own feet ( or an air pocket or imaginary blemish in the floor ), or riding any number of ridiculous vehicles or " clown bikes ".

The toll is currently € 2 for vehicles with a pre-paid tag, € 2. 50 for vehicles whose number plates have been registered with eFlow, and € 3 for unregistered vehicles.

A number of companies are developing vehicles, although few have demonstrated a full-sized vehicle capable of free flight.

To counter this, the Yishuv authorities tried to supply the city with convoys of up to 100 armoured vehicles, but the operation became more and more impractical as the number of casualties in the relief convoys surged.

; Drivers: A one-year long study, conducted by a firm that provides statistical information to insurance companies so they can determine rates, found that drivers of H2 and H3 Hummers receive about five times as many traffic tickets as the national average for all vehicles ( standardized based on the number of violations per 100, 000 miles driven ).

The U. S. Air Force has a number of vehicles under the designation M1116, specifically designed to meet the requirements of the Air Force.

*-ordered a small number of vehicles for de-mining units in Iraq.

*-A number of vehicles are used by the security forces.

Mirroring the earlier booms in financial speculations in performance fees-structured investment vehicles of the 1920s and 1960s, during the 1990s the number of hedge funds increased significantly, with investments provided by the new wealth that was created during the 1990s stock market rise.

Industrial pollution is increasing, particularly in Java, and the increasing affluence of the growing middle class drives a rapid increase in the number of motor vehicles and associated emissions.

MIRV was an outgrowth of the rapidly shrinking size and weight of modern warheads and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties which imposed limitations on the number of launch vehicles ( SALT I and SALT II ).

It inspired a number of other light utility vehicles, such as the Land Rover which is the second oldest four-wheel-drive brand.

The Army felt that the Bantam company was too small to supply the number of vehicles it needed, so it supplied the Bantam design to Willys and Ford who were encouraged to make their own changes and modifications.

Since the War Department required a large number of vehicles to be manufactured in a relatively short time, Willys-Overland granted the United States Government a non-exclusive license to allow another company to manufacture vehicles using Willys ' specifications.

In the United States military, the jeep has been supplanted by a number of vehicles ( e. g. Ford's M151 MUTT ) of which the latest is the Humvee.

Other launchers had a number of variants mounted on different vehicles too.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

Net income was $2,557,111, or $3.11 per share on 821,220 common shares currently outstanding, as compared to $2,323,867 or $2.82 per share in 1959, adjusted to the same number of shares.

However, whether you arrange to have a European or American model, if you rent a car with the proper seating capacity in relation to the number of people in your party, your transportation expense will average very close to $10.00 per day per passenger.

The differentiation, however, is not very much greater, as shown by the fact that Athabascan shows 3.46 stems per meaning slot as against 2.75 for Yokuts, with a slightly greater number of languages represented in our sample: 24 as against 21.

Thomas also presents a simple equation for deriving an index of persistence, which weights not only the number of stems ( ' roots ' ) per meaning, but their relative frequency.

Cell dimensions, number of formula units per cell, space group, and specific gravity are given for all substances.

The basic state grant is thirty cents for each person served, and there is a further book incentive grant that provides an extra twenty cents up to fifty cents per capita, if a library spends a certain number of dollars.

In college libraries, 57 per cent of the total number of books are owned by 124 of 1,509 institutions surveyed last year by the U.S. Office of Education.

In the last decade the number of Negro-appeal radio program hours has risen at least 15 per cent, and the number of Negro-appeal stations has increased 30 per cent, according to a research man quoted by Sponsor.

In this way, amperes can be viewed as a flow rate, i. e. number of particles ( charged ) transiting per unit time, and coulombs simply as the number of particles.

The proposed change would define 1 A as being the current in the direction of flow of a particular number of elementary charges per second.

What we experience as " higher pitched " or " lower pitched " sounds are pressure vibrations having a higher or lower number of cycles per second.

All votes count equally, and everyone gets the same number of votes: one vote per candidate, either for or against.

However, the situation has not returned to the pre-1968 level and the number of successful hijackings continues to be high-an average of 18 per annum during the 10-year period between 1988 and 1997, as against the pre-1968 average of five.

This process doubles the apparent number of video fields per second and further reduces flicker and other defects in transmission.

Secondly, the number of people per household has fallen ; thus, the existing dwellings do not hold as many people.

The average number of people per household was 1. 99 individuals.

In air, compressibility effects are usually ignored when the Mach number in the flow does not exceed 0. 3 ( about 335 feet ( 102m ) per second or 228 miles ( 366 km ) per hour at 60 ° F ).

Botswana possesses 888 km of gauge railway, by 2002 figures, serving a number of towns and connecting the country to its neighbours.

The city also has a half-marathon, as well as a number of 10 km and 5 km races, including a 5 km race on the first of January each year.

It formed the backbone of a waterway stretching some 382 miles ( 614 km ), linking a number of lakes and rivers to provide a route from Gothenburg ( Swedish: Göteborg ) on the west coast to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea via the river Göta älv and the Trollhätte kanal, through the large lakes Vänern and Vättern.

The all-time speed record for steam trains is held by an LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive of the LNER in the United Kingdom, number 4468 Mallard, which pulling six carriages ( plus a dynamometer car ) reached 126 mph ( 203 km / h ) on a slight downhill gradient down Stoke Bank on 3 July 1938.

China's borders have more than 20, 000 km of land frontier shared with nearly all the nations of mainland East Asia, and have been disputed at a number of points.

On the highway side of the Pastaza, a tributary river occurs about every 3 – 4 km for a stretch of about 50 km ; on the opposite bank, the number of tributaries is slightly lower.

The total length of common-used railway tracks exceeds 85, 500 km, second only to the U. S. Over 44, 000 km of tracks are electrified, which is the largest number in the world, and additionally there are more than 30, 000 km of industrial non-common carrier lines.

There are 680 km of highways in Tonga, of which 184 km are paved, and there are a number of air and seaports.

As of 2010, number of tunnels is 155 ( total length 99. 5 km ), number of bridges is 6447 ( total length 296. 3 km ).

The total number of Jupiter Trojans larger than 1 km in diameter is believed to be about, approximately equal to the number of asteroids larger than 1 km in the asteroid belt.

Independently of this, Bydgoszcz-Szwederowo airport, located about 50 km from Toruń city center, serves the whole Bydgoszcz-Toruń metropolitan area, with a number of regular flights to European cities.