Although a few limited-production battery-powered electric vehicles have appeared, they have not proved to be competitive owing to costs and operating characteristics.

Having proved itself as a key workhorse of the US heavy tactical wheeled vehicle fleet, about 13, 000 HEMTT vehicles are in service today.

Peiper was to use secondary roads, but these proved unsuitable for heavy armored vehicles, especially the Tiger II tanks attached to the Kampfgruppe.

In the modern sense an experiment proved the viability of small petro-hybrid road vehicles in 1978.

The six light rail vehicles purchased for the test eventually proved inadequate, also because of the large amount of problems it faces.

Several vehicles were constructed and proved in 1941.

The tungsten APDS-T rounds proved highly effective in Desert Storm being capable of knocking out many Iraqi vehicles including several kills on T-55 tanks.

Optical systems proved to have poor reading reliability, especially when faced with inclement weather and dirty vehicles.

Many of these immobilized Ferdinands had to be permanently abandoned, as they proved too heavy to tow for most German recovery vehicles.

Corgi Toys produced a sizeable range of military vehicles during the 1950s and early 1960s, and in such uncertain times they proved very popular.

Odets became the playwright most strongly identified with the Group, and its productions of Awake and Sing and Paradise Lost, both directed in 1935 by Harold Clurman, proved to be excellent vehicles for the Group's Stanislavskian aesthetic.

Although Porsche no longer needed the car to meet homologation requirements, it proved a viable platform for racing vehicles, and became the basis for the 934 and 935 race cars.

These vehicles, such as the Sherman flail tank, proved essential on D-Day.

In 1936, " further research by the FKFS -- Forschungsinstitut für Kraftfahrwesen und Fahrzeugmotoren Stuttgart ( Stuttgart Research Institute for Automotive and Automobile Engine Technology ), under the direction of Wunibald Kamm, proved that vehicles with the so-called K-or Kamm tail, following Koenig-Faschsenfeld's lead, offered a good compromise between everyday utility ( e. g. vehicle length and interior dimensions ) and an attractive drag coefficient.

American LaFrance production was consolidated in the former Western Star plant in Ladson, SC, but the attempt to integrate specialized emergency vehicles into a company noted for high volume production capabilities proved unworkable, and American LaFrance was sold in 2005 to a private equity fund.

At the time, the TJ Sports and VR-X models proved to be the fastest Australian-made, naturally aspirated 6-cylinder vehicles in comparison to their rivals, the AU Ford Falcon XR6 & Falcon XR8, V6-supercharged Holden Commodore S and even HSV XU6.

Usually installed on the back of cross-country vehicles, such weapon systems proved useful in the direct fire supporting role, particularly against fortified positions and to root out snipers from urban buildings.

The X-body Omega, like its sister vehicles ( the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix and Buick Skylark, proved fairly trouble-prone early on, necessitating an astounding number of government-mandated recalls for braking problems, fluid leaks and suspension issues, just to name a few.

Driving vehicles equipped with the first supercharged engine in the race's history, their effort proved less than successful and Lautenschlager finished 23rd.

The vehicles proved unsuccessful, and were quickly discontinued.

Births RG12 vehicle proved to be very versatile and suitable for other applications such as command vehicles, prison and security of transit vehicles, tactical rescue vehicle, paramilitary APC, and reconnaissance vehicles.

In Hybrid Warfare they have proved flexible, deploying in armour where necessary, in a variety of vehicles, or on foot as the situation has demanded:

Meaningful policies include: ( A ) kinds of cars the state should own, ( B ) when cars should be traded, ( C ) the need and assignment of vehicles, ( D ) use of cars in lieu of mileage allowances, ( E ) employees taking cars home, and ( F ) need for liability insurance on state automobiles.

It embraced determining when to purchase and when to trade vehicles, who was to drive, when and where repairs were to be made, where gasoline and automobile services were to be obtained and other allied matters.

Moreover, it allows the present management to reassign vehicles so that mileage will be more uniformly distributed throughout the fleet ; ;

The assignment and use of vehicles after purchase is another matter to be covered in detail later.

And most of the gain will be in self-unloading vehicles ''.

The same delivery vehicles -- whether they be airplanes, submarines or guided missiles -- should be usable.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

In modern warfare, an ambush is most often employed by ground troops up to platoon size against enemy targets, which may be other ground troops, or possibly vehicles.

There may also be hybrid vehicles such as the M1128 Mobile Gun System, which mounts a large 105mm gun normally used in tank destroyers, but can theoretically also carry infantry soldiers as an IFV.

Most modern AFVs are superficially similar in design to their World War II counterparts, with significantly better armour, weapons, engines and suspension-however with an increase in the capacity of transport aircraft allowing AFVs to be practically transported by air, many armies are replacing some or all of their traditional heavy vehicles with lighter airmobile versions, often with wheels instead of tracks.

The level of armour protection between AFVs varies greatly-a main battle tank will normally be designed to take hits from other tank guns and anti-tank missiles, whilst light reconnaissance vehicles are often only armoured " just in case ".

Whilst heavier armour provides better protection, it makes vehicles less mobile ( for a given engine power ), limits its air-transportability, increases cost, uses more fuel and may limit the places it can go-for example, many bridges may be unable to support the weight of a main battle tank.

Other multi-axled wheeled military vehicles can be quite large, and actually be superior to some smaller tracked vehicles in terms of armour and armament.

Currently there appears to be a move toward wheeled vehicles fitting a " tank destroyer " or " assault gun " role, with the US testing the M1128 Stryker MGS.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

The " open-topped " design format of the Panzerjäger vehicles was succeeded by the Jagdpanzer '(" hunting tanks ") which mounted the gun in true casemate-style superstructures, completely enclosing the crew compartment in armor that would usually be integral to the hull.

Other multi-axled wheeled military vehicles can be quite large, and actually be superior to some smaller tracked vehicles in terms of armor and armament.

In common with the other jet-based engines, but particularly in rockets due to their high and typically fixed exhaust speeds, rocket vehicles are extremely inefficient at low speeds irrespective of the engine efficiency.

While these may be answered and allow for light weight, highly maneuverable vehicles that are strongly defended against missiles and rockets that are extremely well suited for urban and guerrilla warfare.

The DPICM round is effective against armored vehicles, even tanks ( since the deck armor is usually the thinnest on the vehicle ), and is also extremely useful against entrenched infantry in positions with overhead cover.

Ultimately, Enron used the extremely complex Raptor structured finance vehicles to avoid reflecting losses in the value of some merchant investments in its income statement.

Digital imaging technology, miniaturized computers, and numerous other technological advances over the past decade have contributed to rapid advances in aerial surveillance hardware such as micro-aerial vehicles, forward-looking infrared, and high-resolution imagery capable of identifying objects at extremely long distances.

A list ranking various space vehicles in order of heating applied to the airframe would have capsules at the top ( re-entering quickly with very high heating loads ), waveriders at the bottom ( extremely long gliding profiles at high altitude ), and the Space Shuttle somewhere in the middle.

This passes above the village centre, which, by virtue of its extremely narrow streets and steep gradients, is inaccessible to vehicles.

These vehicles were extremely popular in the northern reaches of Canada.

Before their new codex Necrons were an extremely unique army, having the durability of Space Marines, and focusing largely on firepower, but lacked vehicles and only had two melee units, usually sticking to attrition style warfare, relying on their durability to keep them alive while dwindling down the enemy.

The extremely flat, smooth and hard surfaces of dry lakes make them ideal for motor vehicles and bicycles.

However, it is extremely unsafe, as well as often illegal, to abuse the hard shoulder by ' undertaking ' passing vehicles that are nearer the centre of the road.

It will be a globally visible signal for a new automobile breakthrough, as it will only be open for sustainable mobility: future-oriented vehicles with alternative drive systems – hybrid and electric, hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles – and other extremely economical vehicles.

An active collector community exists for these vehicles, which when well-restored can be extremely valuable.

This no longer occurs, but the rapidity of this process caused the Texas nilgai to become extremely wary of humans, and they bolt at the sight of vehicles, running nearly as fast as horses.

This led to the Pakistani brigade group being left extremely vulnerable to air attack, vehicles becoming bogged in terrain not suitable for the movement of armoured vehicles as they tried to deploy off a single track, these being more susceptible to enemy fire by using external fuel storage in tactical combat, attempting to execute a night attack over unfamiliar terrain, and infantry being surprised by obstacles to troop movement causing confusion and stalling the attack during the crucial hours of darkness, when the assaulting infantry still had a measure of concealment from Indian small arms and infantry support weapon fire.

Eventually, the Federation approached the brothers with an extremely profitable contract to help produce military vehicles for it.

While there were no indoor facilities available, visitors waited out the extremely slow-moving storm parked in their recreational vehicles, after creeping along for hours in traffic on nearby Interstate 75.

This design has been in regular use on combat vehicles since World War II ; it is typically thick and is usually extremely heavy., it can break after being shot at 2 times

This group of car buyers is extremely important to manufacturers due to their large numbers ( 78 million ) and their differing perceptions and demands of the vehicles they drive.

These vehicles only run as singles and are noted for their extremely quiet run ( which did cause some minor accidents initially ).

Such expedition-like safaris require very high navigation skills rather than extremely modified vehicles and involve a circuit route of a distances of 50 km or more of pure off-roading ( and maybe some on-roads ) but usually is around 300 km.

This missile was viewed by certain U. S. analysts as giving the Soviet Union first strike advantage over the U. S., particularly because of its very heavy throw weight and extremely large number of re-entry vehicles.