To offset this and create a proper balance to the game, the designers gave the average Imperial Guardsman a low armor save of 5 + and only an average value of 3 for their Weapon Skill, Strength, Toughness, and Initiative scores.

The Weapon Shops of Isher and its sequel The Weapon Makers detail the workings of Isher civilization and the adventures of Robert Hedrock, The One Immortal Man, as he keeps it in balance in the face of attempts by the Weapon Makers, who have forgotten their purpose as a permanent opposition, and the strong government of the Empress, Innelda Isher, with its intimate connections to a network of financial institutions, to undermine each other.

Weapon balance is often a main focus of new releases.

This was the case, for instance, in the Weapon Shop series, the Mixed Men series and in single stories such as " Heir Apparent ", whose protagonist was described as a " benevolent dictator ".

Warner Bros. was willing to fund the project on the condition that Gibson sign for another Lethal Weapon sequel, which he refused.

HK was contracted by the U. S. Army to produce the kinetic energy subsystem ( see: kinetic projectiles or kinetic energy penetrator ) of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon, a planned replacement for the M16 / M203 grenade launcher combination.

He returns in the Uncanny X-Force arc set in the AoA timeline, where it is revealed that he had actually defected from the X-Men and was acting as a mole for Weapon X.

The Kzinti " crossed-over " in to the Star Trek universe in the animated episode " The Slaver Weapon ", which was written by Larry Niven and is adapted from Niven's own short story " The Soft Weapon ".

Weapon designer Stuart Macrae witnessed a trial of the SIPs grenade at Farnborough: " There was some concern that, if the tank drivers could not pull up quickly enough and hop out, they were likely to be frizzled to death, but after looking at the bottles they said they would be happy to take a chance.

* Savate was featured on the TV show Human Weapon, in Episode 4.

A weapon ahead of its time was the Hafdasa C-2 machine pistol issued to armoured vehicle personnel which would be today classed as a Personal Defense Weapon.

SDI was not just lasers ; in this Kinetic Energy Weapon test, a seven gram Lexan projectile was fired from a light gas gun at a velocity of 23, 000 feet per second ( 7, 000 meters per second or 15, 682 miles per hour ) at a cast aluminum block.

A prominent feature about it was a device designed by Sinister that negated the powers of any mutant in the Savage Land save for Sinister's own forces, rendering the X-Men powerless while fighting him ( With the exception of Wolverine's claws as they were a ' bonus ' of the Weapon X process, although they would thus cause damage to his hands when used ) until the machinery was destroyed.

In 2000, Fatboy Slim released his third studio album, Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars, and featured two collaborations with Macy Gray and " Weapon of Choice ", which also was made into an award-winning video starring Christopher Walken.

A rifle firing flechettes, the Special Purpose Individual Weapon, was under development for the U. S. Army, but the project was abandoned.

* " Best Weapon " ( 2003 )-This was a " non-commercial single " and the film clip featured the band playing live at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney

The Avrocar was proposed to the U. S. Army as a type of " flying Jeep " that could also serve as a proof-of-concept test vehicle for a later supersonic flying saucer designs, PV-704 and Weapon System 606A.

In the British television programme Doctor Who, The Master says in the serial Colony in Space that the Crab Nebula was the result of the Uxariean race testing the Doomsday Weapon, which is capable of making stars go supernova.

The album, entitled Choice of Weapon, was released on 22 May 2012.

In 1994, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel and assigned as Head of the Department of Operational Requirement for Weapon Development and Acquisition.

) The W54 nuclear device was used in the Davy Crockett Weapon System.

The name was invented at the suggestion of Captain L. J. Stecher, a former Tartar Weapon System manager, after an internal U. S. Navy contest to name the ASMS program was initiated.

Follow ups, You've Come a Long Way, Baby and Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars as well as their associated singles including " The Rockafeller Skank ", " Praise You ", " Right Here Right Now " and " Weapon of Choice " helped to popularise the big beat genre which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s.

617 Squadron achieved high levels of accuracy using the Stabilizing Automatic Bomb Sight ; with the necessary accuracy of only at the V Weapon launch site at Abbeville.

By mid 1944, using the Stabilizing Automatic Bomb Sight and the 12, 000 lb Tallboy bomb, No. 617 achieved a bombing error of only 94 yards at the V Weapon launch site at Abbeville.

The technology used in Nano-Sentinels is also employed by Weapon Plus for their artificial evolution experiments and the creation of their Super-Sentinels.

* Colcord's Sentinels: Some of the Boxbots created by Madison Jeffries ( aka Box ) to serve the Weapon X Program.

Vulcans are repeatedly stated to be herbivorous in the TAS episode " The Slaver Weapon ", by the carnivorous Kzinti.

Stevens also produced a series of audio dramas called Kaldor City, created by Chris Boucher, which link the Blake's 7 universe into Boucher's Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death through the character Carnell ( Scott Fredericks ), whom Boucher created for the Blake's 7 episode Weapon.

In 1957 the USAF provided additional funding to extend the project, by then highly classified and designated as Weapon System 606A.

* Our Word Is Our Weapon by Subcomandante Marcos Chapter 1

*" The Weapon " by Paul Crompton ( Doctor Who Annual 1980 )-1st incarnation

Some of the major programs managed by the center include the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile, High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile, HARM Targeting System, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, Joint Direct Attack Munition, Miniature Air Launched Decoy, Sensor Fuzed Weapon and the Small Diameter Bomb.

In the 1981 novel A Natural Weapon by Garry Mitchelmore, Lansdale is one of two towns ( the other being Cache, Louisiana ) that has its natural gas supply poisoned by terrorists.

* The Mouthbow – Making Music on a Weapon by Buffy Sainte-Marie for the Cradleboard Teaching Project

*" Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction " – video by Democracy Now!

Research by John Lott in the 2000 second edition of More Guns, Less Crime provided the first research on state and the Federal Assault Weapon Bans.

The original Berserkers were designed and built as an Ultimate Weapon, by a race now known only as the Builders, to wipe out their rivals the Red Race, in a war which took place at a time corresponding to Earth's Paleolithic era.

Some of those artists include Dubblestandart from Vienna, Austria ( who recorded the album " Return from Planet Dub " in collaboration with, and performs live with, Lee Scratch Perry ), Liquid Stranger from Sweden, New York City artists including Ticklah, also known as Victor Axelrod, Victor Rice, Easy Star All-Stars, Dub Trio ( who have recorded and performed live with Mike Patton, and are currently touring as the backing band for Matisyahu ), Subatomic Sound System ( who have remixed material by Lee Scratch Perry and Ari Up ), Dub is a Weapon, King Django, Boom One Sound System, Dr. Israel, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad from Rochester, NY, Heavyweight Dub Champion from San Francisco and Colorado, Ott from the UK who has released several influential albums through Twisted Records, Future Pigeon from Los Angeles, German artists like Disrupt and Rootah from the Jahtari label, and Twilight Circus from the Netherlands.

The action-packed story, unfolding in a manner reminiscent of Saturday matinee movie serials, about the adventures of an archaeologist was written by Carlton Cuse and Jeffrey Boam ; this film was their third collaboration, after Lethal Weapon 2 and 3.

According to a test report conducted by the United States Navy's Weapon System Explosives Safety Review Board ( WSESRB ) established in the wake of the tragic 1967 USS Forrestal fire, the cooking off time for a Mk 83 is approximately 8 minutes 40 seconds.

The M-28 or M-29 Davy Crockett Weapon System ( s ) was a tactical nuclear recoilless gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War.

Lethal Weapon is a 1987 American buddy cop action film and the first in a series of films, all directed by Richard Donner and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of LAPD detectives, and Gary Busey as their primary adversary.

* Separation Anxiety, a 2009 mixtape by Cadence Weapon