Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

The Avro Vulcan was part of the RAF V bomber force

In addition, the pilots of the Avro Vulcan or Handley Page Victor bombers could tie their systems into those of the missile and make use of the guidance system to help plot their own flight plan, since the unit in the missile was more advanced than that in the aircraft.

The inadvertent destruction of many of these eggs by a human mining colony led the mother Horta to respond by killing the colonists and sabotaging their equipment ; it was only through a Vulcan mind meld that the race's benevolence and intelligence were discovered and peaceful relations established.

A popular t-shirt and bumper sticker slogan for Trekkies, seen as early as 1967, was I grok Spock ( often showing the Star Trek character using the Vulcan salute ).

After the Gatling gun was replaced in service by newer recoil-or gas-operated non-rotating machine guns and automatic cannons, the approach of using multiple rotating barrels fell into disuse for many decades, reappearing after World War II with the development of the M61 Vulcan.

In 1929 it was acquired by Green & Carter, of Winchester, Hampshire, who were engaged in the manufacturing and installation of the well-known Vulcan and Vacher Rams.

Hephaestus ' Roman equivalent was Vulcan.

A version of T ' Pol who was flung into the past gives birth to the first human / Vulcan hybrid.

There were also hopes for an episode in which T ' Pol would finally meet her father and discover that he was in fact a Romulan agent who had posed as a Vulcan officer prior to faking his own death.

A Vulcan city which looks very similar to the ShiKahr of Star Trek: The Animated Series was shown in the new CGI establishing shots used in the special edition of " Amok Time ".

However, there is no explicit canon evidence that the group which left Vulcan was in rebellion against Surak.

The " Vulcan Soul " Trilogy, written by Josepha Sherman and Susan Shwartz, told the story that it was Surak's idea that some of the Vulcan population should leave their homeworld to find a new home so that the Vulcan race could be preserved due to the endless wars then raging on the homeworld.

Circa stardate 44995. 3 ( December 28, 2367 ), the Vulcan Ambassador Spock was discovered on Romulus, working with an underground movement for the reunification of the divided races.

The Romulans saw this as a chance to conquer the Vulcans and sent a fleet of ships toward Vulcan, but their intent was discovered and the fleet destroyed by the Romulans themselves.

According to Tanaquil, this was a divine manifestation, either of the household Lar or Vulcan himself.

It was decided to use the Vulcan to initially carry two missiles each on hardpoints outboard of the main landing gear.

Each B-52H was to carry four missiles, two under each wing on side-by-side pylons, while the Avro Vulcan carried one each on smaller pylons.

In keeping with this idea, for its first two seasons Star Trek: Enterprise was the only show to have an entirely Human crew owing to its being set before the formation of the Federation, though the vessel did carry Phlox, a Denobulan serving in a medical exchange program, and T ' Pol, then serving as an observer from the Vulcan High Command.

Particular attention was paid to quick reaction and high maneuverability of the V force aircraft, especially the Vulcan model B Mk.

Vulcan was designed for quick-reaction response.

From the day of its deployment in the deterrent force, an on-alert Vulcan was ready to launch, and strike, limited only by the readiness state established for her crew.

Although by the mid-1960s Canberras and the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm were able to deliver nuclear weapons, their carrying power was insignificant compared to the 180 Victor and Vulcan bombers.

Vulcan later became the dBase system whose easy-to-use syntax effectively launched the personal computer database industry.

Ashton-Tate was launched as a result of George Tate and Hal Lashlee having found and licensed a database program called Vulcan from its author, Wayne Ratliff, in 1981.

Spock's decision to join Starfleet, rather than attend the Vulcan Science Academy, ran contrary to his father's wishes.

While part of an intellectual junta that briefly ran Springfield in " They Saved Lisa's Brain ", he proposes plans to limit breeding to once every seven years ( a reference to the Vulcan blood fever of mating, called Pon farr ), commenting that this would mean much less breeding for most, but for him, " much, much more ".

The founders changed the name of Vulcan to " dBASE II " on the recommendation of Hal Pawluk, an advertising expert who single-handedly drove and ran the early advertising programs for dBASE.

At the start of 1882, John Hollingshead and Richard Barker presented Mother-in-Law, a frivolous comedy by George R. Sims, which ran in a double bill with a burlesque called Vulcan until May.

The series then took over the numbering of the defunct title Son of Vulcan, and ran from issue # 50-60 ( March-April 1966-Nov. 1967 ), after which Morisi, a New York City Police Department officer and time-pressed with police work, left the title, which was canceled along with the rest of Charlton's " Action Heroes " comics line.

Church ran a spice business known as Vulcan Spice Mills.

Furth ran the Vulcan Iron Works along with the Puget Sound Electric Railway and street railways on the Puget Sound.

In the early 1940s, much larger Vulcan railcars were introduced to New Zealand and they provided two services to Reefton: one local service from Greymouth that terminated in Reefton, and a service that ran between Westport and Stillwater to connect with the West Coast Express.

With the commencement of through services, passenger trains were operated by RM class Vulcan railcars, which connected in Stillwater with services that ran along the Midland Line between Greymouth and Christchurch.

Hinkley # 2 never ran again, and # 1 ran only on the rare occasions Vulcan # 3 needed repairs.

The V-bomber project to install and develop Autoland on Vulcan XA899, originally classified as Secret, ran in parallel with the Canberra and Varsity work.

Her father William Houston Blount, ran Vulcan Materials for many years and his brother Winton M. " Red " Blount, Postmaster General in Richard Nixon's cabinet.

* 79 – Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire.

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.

In large machines there were other disk operating systems, such as IBM's VM, DEC's RSTS / RT-11 / VMS / TOPS-10 / TWENEX, MIT's ITS / CTSS, Control Data's assorted NOS variants, Harris's Vulcan, Bell Labs ' Unix, and so on.

However, Nero leaves the battle to continue his assault on the planet Vulcan.

Musician Voltaire wrote a song called " Worf's Rap " for his EP Banned on Vulcan.

The date of first contact between the Cardassians and Starfleet is unknown, but is likely to have occurred mid-to-late 22nd Century, as a Cardassian exile, Iloja of Prim, lived on Vulcan during that time period.

In the pilot episode, " Caretaker ", USS Voyager departs station Deep Space Nine on a mission into the treacherous Badlands to find a missing ship piloted by a team of Maquis rebels, which the Vulcan Lt. Tuvok, Voyager < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s security officer, has secretly infiltrated.

Its version of " joint chiefs of staffs " is the " High Command " ( TNG's " The Defector "), an institution most likely carried over from and modeled on the Vulcan High Command ( Star Trek: Enterprise ).

There is no onscreen depiction, one way or the other, to show whether Remans originated on Remus itself, or that they are mutated descendants of the original Vulcan colonists.

Spock elected to remain underground on Romulus to teach the Vulcan heritage to those who might listen.

* Star Trek: Vulcan's Soul is a trilogy written by Sherman and Shwartz between 2004 and 2007 ; set in the aftermath of the Dominion War, it focuses on members of Kirk's original crew becoming involved in a war between the Romulans and a fellow Vulcan off-shoot, the Watraii.

In Britain compatibility trials with mockups started on the Vulcan.

Work on the Victor began in November 1947 and the Vulcan in January 1948.

Vulcan would never be caught on the ground, or be in need of one of the few, conspicuous, 10, 000 foot runways that a B-47 or B-52 required for a fully fueled and loaded take-off.

Upon entering all service all three V bombers were initially painted in an overall silver finish, with the prominent under-nose H2S radomes on the Valiant and Vulcan left in black, however, this silver finish was later changed to one of anti-flash white, the RAF roundels being adjusted in shade, and made paler, to minimise the absorption of energy from the flash of detonating nuclear weapons.

** An avalanche in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania kills 26, including Vulcan Crucible Steel Co heir-apparent Samuel A. Stafford Sr., when two 100 ton boulders fall on a bus filled with wartime steel workers on their way home.

Based on Lescarbault ’ s " transit ", Le Verrier computed Vulcan ’ s orbit: it supposedly revolved about the Sun in a nearly circular orbit at a distance of 21 million kilometres, or 0. 14 astronomical units.