While the Chassepot's ballistic performance and firing rates were excellent for the time, burnt paper residues as well as black powder fouling accumulated in the chamber and bolt mechanism after continuous firing.

While the speed was not nearly enough to reach orbit ( less than half of the 9, 000 m / s delta-v required to reach Low Earth Orbit ), it was a major achievement at much lower cost than most ballistic missile programs.

While the flak jacket offers a high level of ballistic protection many officers prefer the lighter and more comfortable stab vest.

While this is similar to the energy available from the. 45 ACP pistol cartridge, the reduced diameter and streamlined shape of the heavy. 30 caliber bullet provides far better external ballistic performance, improving range substantially.

While ballistic gelatin does not model the structure of the body, including skin and bones, it works fairly well as an approximation of tissue and provides similar performance for most ballistics testing.

While a few long-range weapons — such as the intercontinental ballistic missiles ( ICBMs ) and certain types of cruise missiles — are capable of projecting deadly force in their own right, most discussion of power projection revolve around issues of military logistics.

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.

While fire and forget missiles have definitive advantages in terms of guidance and operator safety, and include abilities such as top attack mode, older missiles continue in use, both in the front line armies of less developed countries, and in reserve service the world over, due to their lower cost or existing stockpiles of less advanced weapons.

While missiles fired out of guns would prove a disappointment, the wire-guided BGM-71 TOW would give infantry fighting vehicles like the M2 Bradley the firepower to destroy armored targets along with the ability to carry troops.

While Soviets designers have developed gun launched missiles, the US and NATO are developing guided tank shells.

While still used today in spacecraft and missiles, the more prosaic applications such as remote monitoring ( via telemetry ) of patients, water plants, highway conditions, etc.

While a MIRV attacking missile can have multiple warheads ( 3 – 12 on United States missiles and 3-10 on Russian ), interceptors may have only one warhead per missile.

While the opposition between Earth and Moon echoes the historical conflict between the United States and the British Empire, the way the Lunar rebels force Earth to acknowledge their independence is similar to the one they adopt in Dick's novel ( launching missiles, some with nuclear warheads, in an unpredictable fashion ).

While he was being wheeled out of an early morning prayer session in Gaza city, an Israeli AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship fired Hellfire missiles at Yassin and both of his bodyguards.

While the missiles were ineffective during the Battle of Latakia in 1973, four Styx missiles sank the Israeli destroyer Eilat in October 1967, marking the first time that ship-to-ship missiles were successfully used in combat.

While it is not a particularly sophisticated missile when compared to newer generations of Anti-Ship missiles such as the French Exocet, the Silkworm's unusually large warhead ensures that a single hit will inflict very serious damage.

While the Battle of Latakia was the first naval battle in history between missile boats, it was not the first incident in which a missile boat sank another ship using missiles.

While Defense Minister, Ustinov received a report from analysts that in theory the US Shuttle could be used to deploy space based weapons platforms and nuclear missiles over Soviet territory.

While doing so, he replaces the dummy warheads in two cruise missiles with live nuclear warheads ; SPECTRE then obtains the warheads to extort billions of dollars from NATO governments.

While U. S. missiles were controlled strictly by American authorities, the Canadian BOMARCs were an international affair.

While there, Meade was involved with research development test and evaluation of the F-5E, RF-5E and F-20 aircraft and the ground-launched and air-launched cruise missiles.

While some German influences would clearly remain, Soviet missiles after the R-2 would be based on original designs by the OKB-1 group.

While the missiles did not fall from the sky in pieces, they were disabled to the point that they could no longer locate, track, and strike their target.

While its contribution to SIOP was minor compared to the enormous SAC arsenal of 1, 600 bombers and 800 missiles, as RAF officers who worked with the Americans rose to leadership positions their experience benefited later partnerships between the two countries.

While most of his beliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not believe in killing.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

While observing the operations of our Government in various parts of the world, I have felt that in many situations where our policies were good we have tended to ignore minor problems which spoiled our main effort.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

While they were told that there were some normal people who reacted differently than they had, they were also informed that there were other normals who reacted as they had.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While the factories were always the center of the labor market, they were often on the city's periphery.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

While neighbor women assumed some of the dead mother's duties, fund-raising events were being planned by a homeowners association and a student council for the hard-hit Henry Kowalski family, 34220 Viceroy.

While Communists were undermining United Nations efforts to rescue the Congo from chaos, two other Communist offensives stirred the Eisenhower Administration into emergency conferences and serious decisions.

While Republicans were discouraged, Democrats were energized and did especially well in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and New York.

While Durkheim and others examined the state of modern societies, Mauss and his collaborators ( such as Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz ) drew on ethnography and philology to analyze societies that were not as ' differentiated ' as European nation states.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

While White and Black children were both instructed in ASL, only Black teachers were permitted to instruct Black deaf children.

While it would be rash to assert positively that no existing gems were the work of Gnostics, there is no valid reason for attributing any or all of them to such an origin.

While at Jerusalem, Absalom built support for himself among the populace by promising justice for all " if only I were appointed judge in the land ", and by showing humility by kissing those who approached him rather than accepting supplication.