With this ultimate weapon, the two Yankees may have saved baseball from its dullest season.

When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlessness -- until redeemed -- the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state ''.

It has the heaviest armour of any vehicle on the battlefield, and carries a powerful weapon that may be able to engage a wide variety of ground targets.

Artillery may also refer to a system of applied scientific research relating to the design, manufacture and employment of artillery weapon systems although, in general, the terms ballistics and ordnance are more commonly employed in this sense.

To improve on the capabilities of a solid propellant weapon the electrothermal-chemical gun may see production as early as 2016.

This may be due to the occasional pre-electric practice of covering the point of the weapon in dye, soot, or colored chalk in order to make it easier for the referee to determine the placing of the touches.

Possession of a deadly weapon may be generally legal, but carrying the same weapon into a restricted area such as a school may be viewed as a serious offense, regardless of whether there is intent to use the weapon.

The Gatling gun may have been the first automatic weapon, though the modern trigger-actuated machine gun was not widely introduced until the First World War with the German " Spandau " and British Lewis Gun.

Generally, handguns in the Czech Republic are available to anybody above 21 years of age ( 15, 16 or 18 years under special conditions ) with a clean criminal history who passes tests about gun law and weapon knowledge and a medical inspection ( which may optionally include psychological test ).

Minors ( 15 and older ) may also use a weapon, provided that they are under the supervision of someone who has a gun license.

If this is not due to chronological confusion of the events of the siege, it may suggest that Kallinikos merely introduced an improved version of an established weapon.

* Machete: A large heavy knife used to cut through thick vegetation such as sugar cane or jungle undergrowth ; it may be used as an offensive weapon.

* Seax: A Germanic single-edged knife, used primarily as a tool, but may have been a weapon

And because Luft means " air " and Waffe may be translated into English as either " weapon " or " arm ", " Air Arm " may be considered the most literal English translation of Luftwaffe ( cf.

Missiles generally have one or more explosive warheads, although other weapon types may also be used.

The warhead or warheads of a missile provides its primary destructive power ( many missiles have extensive secondary destructive power due to the high kinetic energy of the weapon and unburnt fuel that may be on board ).

Automatic rifles ( such as the Browning Automatic Rifle ) were designed to be a high duty cycle arm for support of other troops, and were often made and deployed with quick change barrel assemblies to allow quick replacement of over heated barrels to allow for continued fire, and may have been operated by both the person actually firing the weapon as well as an additional crewman to assist in providing and caring for ammunition and the barrels, similar to a reduced version of a squad weapon ( above ).

This is an ethical demand which cannot be evaded or glossed over by talking exclusively of weapon superiority or even of the evil of Communism.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

By that time we should be in a much better position to determine the value of that aircraft as a weapon system.

Biological warfare is considered to be primarily a strategic weapon.

Each source selected from its approved bidders list about 200 firms which it believed to be small businesses that participated in the production of weapons and weapon support systems.

Shipbuilding, aircraft procurement, and weapon programs indicate that there will not be enough of anything.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoebus Apollo chaffs Cupid for toying with a weapon more suited to a man, whereupon Cupid wounds him with a golden dart ; simultaneously, however, Cupid shoots a leaden arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo.

Military aircraft have been designed either to deliver a weapon or to be the eyes and ears of other weapon systems.

The greater the recoil a weapon on an AFV is, the larger the turret ring needs to be.

This was to prevent the weapon from being damaged by long-distance towing across rough, stony deserts, and it was intended only to be a carrying method, with the gun unloaded for firing.

Artillery types can be categorised in several ways, for example by type or size of weapon or ordnance, by role or by organizational arrangements.

This most commonly refers to matched pairs of handguns but can refer to any other weapon that can be held in one hand such as machine pistols and even melee weapons, although this is more common in role-playing video games.

The active radar made the Sparrow II a " fire and forget " weapon, allowing several to be fired at separate targets at the same time.

By 1955 Douglas proposed going ahead with development, intending it to be the primary weapon for the F5D Skylancer interceptor.

It was later selected, with some controversy, to be the primary weapon for the Canadian Avro Arrow supersonic interceptor, along with the new Astra fire-control system.

The weapon needed for interceptor aircraft, the Bendix AAM-N-10 Eagle, would be an air-to-air missile of unprecedented range when compared to contemporary AIM-7 Sparrow missiles.

Beowulf bears no weapon because this would be an " unfair advantage " over the unarmed beast.

As a tactical weapon for military use, a significant problem with a biological warfare attack is that it would take days to be effective, and therefore might not immediately stop an opposing force.

The argument is that biological weapons cannot be controlled: the weapon could backfire and harm the army on the offensive, perhaps having even worse effects than on the target.

Ideal characteristics of a biological agent to be used as a weapon against humans are high infectivity, high virulence, non-availability of vaccines, and availability of an effective and efficient delivery system.

Bioterrorism is an attractive weapon because biological agents are relatively easy and inexpensive to obtain, can be easily disseminated, and can cause widespread fear and panic beyond the actual physical damage they can cause.

This became a weapon of choice because it is easily transferred, has a high mortality rate, and could be easily obtained.

This WE. 177 laydown weapon supplemented the remaining modified Blue Steel missiles using a low-level penetration followed by a pop-up manoeuvre to release the weapon at Forty-eight live operational rounds were deployed on 48 Vulcan and Victor bombers plus a further five live rounds as operational spares.

As with category C, every Austrian citizen at the age of 18 or over can buy and own this type of weapon without further registration or permission, since no background checks are performed also EU / EEA citizens can buy them without problems.

Gun ownership requires license and is regulated by the weapon law ( Vapenlagen 1996: 67 ) further regulations are found in in weapon decree ( Vapenförordningen 1996: 70 ).

" Dickson-Wright further cites etymologist Walter William Skeat as further suggestion of possible Scandinavian origins: Skeat claimed that the hag – element of the word is derived from the Old Norse haggw or the Old Icelandic hoggva ( höggva in modern Icelandic ), meaning ' to hew ' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating to the chopped-up contents of the dish.

The feedback given by the Danes was vital in the further development of the weapon.

Kenneth Waltz has argued that nuclear weapons have helped keep an uneasy peace, and further nuclear weapon proliferation might even help avoid the large scale conventional wars that were so common prior to their invention at the end of World War II.

Also touted as a further evolution of the submachine gun is the personal defense weapon ( PDW ), a machine pistol-like weapon which fires armor-piercing pistol cartridges.

The blast from the bomb is focused by dropping it into a walled plaza, rather than allowing it to spread in all directions ; however damage and injuries still occurred outside this area due to the power of the weapon, causing the use of a second bomb to be called off for fear of further collateral damage.

The AGM-114L, or Longbow Hellfire, is a fire-and-forget weapon: equipped with a millimeter wave ( MMW ) radar seeker, it requires no further guidance after launch — even being able to lock-on to its target after launch — and can hit its target without the launcher or other friendly unit being in line of sight of the target.

Suppose further, because this is necessary to the alleged case for our nuclear weapon as the defence of last resort, that, as in 1940, the United States was standing aloof from the contest but that, in contrast with 1940, Britain and the Warsaw Pact respectively possessed the nuclear weaponry which they do today.

Powell further stated that the continental nations held the nuclear weapon in such esteem that they had conventional forces " manifestly inadequate to impose more than brief delay upon an assault from the East.

The torsion ballista, developed by Alexander, was a far more complicated weapon than its predecessor and the Romans developed it even further, especially into much smaller versions, that could easily be carried.

A further advance in military naval technology was the design of the submarine and its weapon, the torpedo.

Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the Lexington Institute in Virginia states that: " The relevant ( electromagnetic weapon ) technology is well within the grasp of some countries and transnational terrorist groups ", and further states that U. S. hardware is susceptible to microwave and other directed-energy weapons.

In Poland, hand-held pepper spray ( called precisely in Polish Penal Code " a hand-held disabling gas thrower ") is considered a weapon, but can be carried by anyone over 18 without further registration or permission.

A further SM-2 based weapon, the RIM-174 Standard ERAM is currently in testing, and may be integrated into the system in the near future.

Many used improvised suppressors on their pistols to further reduce the noise. A particularly favored weapon was a specially modified Smith & Wesson Model 29 known as the " quiet special purpose revolver ".

This aspect is further enhanced by the fact that the player must choose between holding a weapon and holding the flashlight, forcing the player to choose between being able to see and having a readied weapon upon entering a room, which consequently leads to a more deliberate pace for the player.

External stores allow those aircraft to attack more targets further away, but will not allow for stealth during that mission as compared to a shorter range mission flying on just internal fuel and using only the more limited space of the internal weapon bays for armaments.