The actress is demure and doe-eyed but armoured with immaculate grooming as San Francisco's top wedding planner. |
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British troops and armoured cars then surrounded the royal palace and Lampson demanded Farouk's abdication. |
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Burnley were hustled out of the ground and back to the airport with an escort of an armoured lorry and nine military jeeps. |
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It would have been smarter to buy half of the troop carriers we did but ensure that they were armoured and weaponised appropriately. |
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Next it was the turn of armoured bulldozers to raze building after building. |
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Police with guns and batons lined the way, together with armoured vehicles, razor wire and concrete barricades. |
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Numerous people ran past them in the opposite direction, fully armoured and ready to repel the attack. |
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Heavy-handed searches, of the type witnessed by The Observer, involve large numbers of troops, armoured vehicles and attack helicopters. |
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The gunner's stopped the armoured artillery pieces, ready to fire at a word's notice. |
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The British army is among those which have retained the term squadron to describe subunits of armoured regiments. |
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Australia needs new main battle tanks to ensure that the armoured regiment has the proper tools to accomplish its role. |
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Stuart Hills, a British officer with an armoured regiment, finished the war deep in Germany. |
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When the US marines landed in the south, an armoured column immediately set out to meet them, eager at last to engage the enemy. |
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The protesting workers used tanks, armoured cars, and missile launchers to seal the entrance, creating a gridlock along a nearby highway. |
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The force will have some armoured vehicles in reserve in case of difficulty. |
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The ankylosaurs were heavily armoured dinosaurs, 2 to 10 meters long, quadrupedal, slow moving, and fed on swampy soft vegetation. |
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The army is on path to meet its future as a light armoured force, contrary to recent debate in the media. |
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Corporal Jones was on an operational tour in East Timor and was travelling in the rear of an armoured vehicle at the time of the incident. |
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The Ozelot Weapon System is built on the Wiesel 2 small armoured tracked vehicle. |
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The armoured vehicles are heavily protected by grilles to prevent damage from missiles and petrol bombs. |
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In-line transmission is by four central axles protected by armoured housings. |
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The Cavalry commander had the armoured cars with him and was later reinforced by 1,500 infantry soldiers who were sent forward in Ford cars. |
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The army sent in armoured troop carriers and artillery into Racak, Petroovo, Malopoljce and Renaja. |
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The drivetrain and steering linkages are protected within the armoured hull. |
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The armoured vehicle is protected against 14.5 mm heavy machine gun rounds and artillery splinters. |
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The soldier selects top attack mode to engage tanks and armoured vehicles in order to strike the least armoured area on the vehicle's roof. |
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However, a new generation of young officers embraced the idea of a fast moving war based on armoured vehicles supported by air power. |
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Stormer 30 is a highly mobile armoured reconnaissance vehicle and light tank. |
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Some 24 ships, 23,000 military personnel, 400 armoured vehicles and a squadron of fighter-bombers are involved. |
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It is a tracked, armoured, amphibious vehicle designed to engage armoured ground and air targets while stationary, on the move and afloat. |
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Military vehicles on display will include a Ferret an armoured scout car British and American jeeps and wartime motorbikes. |
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With its armoured shell, thick leathery skin and slow movement, the turtle is one of the most easily recognized creatures on earth. |
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Crabs are nocturnal and cautious with an armoured shell and soft, fleshy insides. |
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The aetosaurs, or Stagonolepididae, were large herbivorous armoured archosaurs, and an important characteristic part of Late Triassic faunas. |
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His riflemen would be reinforced by two armoured cars armed with machine-guns. |
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Twenty soldiers piled in with us, and we were escorted by two armoured cars, one on each side. |
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The comparatively poor cross-country performance of armoured cars has always limited their usefulness. |
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Without the European military patrolling in their box-like armoured cars, 'anything not nailed down would go', they say. |
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This was a sizeable force, but it had not a single tank, and only 26 armoured cars and 656 outdated guns. |
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Soldiers and armoured cars waited in streets adjacent to the three-story school, where nearly 900 children aged seven to 17 studied. |
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They were brought to court in an armoured car escorted by two dozen police vans mounted with machine guns. |
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The armoured car taking him from jail broke down on the North Circular Road. |
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Charlie and Stella plan another robbery involving the creation of the largest traffic-jam in LA history and an armoured car full of jewellery. |
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The bank had indicated that the large cash withdrawals without a guard or armoured car constituted a security risk. |
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The head of the republic found it wise to move around his capital in the safety of an armoured car. |
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Battle tanks, armoured personnel carriers and other assorted military vehicles headed north and the lights of Iraq could be seen in the distance. |
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Campaigns tended to be fought along railway routes, which sometimes made the armoured train decisive. |
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In this context, putting the case for armoured divisions was something that had to be done with skill and tact. |
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I peered down at the would-be dashboard and was amazed to see that this armoured beast was an automatic. |
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Other reports indicated that hundreds of people were being indiscriminately mowed down by tanks and armoured vehicles in various suburbs. |
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In the late hours of 16 November tanks, armoured vehicles and elite army units started to move towards the city centre. |
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The mission of the aircraft is ground attack against tanks, armoured vehicles and installations, and close air support of ground forces. |
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Sophisticated hardware including helicopters, tanks and armoured vehicles is often useless because it is an easy target for enemies. |
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More than 30,000 troops have been massed in the region backed by 23 naval vessels, warplanes, tanks, armoured vehicles and artillery. |
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The high pitched whine of the armoured cars as they manoeuvred round the narrow streets filled me with dread. |
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The mission is to destroy armoured and unarmored combat materiel, low and slow airborne vehicles and other targets. |
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Then, as Tolbukhin parried further German armoured thrusts, Malinovsky mounted an attack on Buda. |
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As they go into battle, simultaneous armoured thrusts will be launched from Kuwait and Turkey. |
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He criticised France's reliance on the Maginot Line for defence against Germany and called for the formation of mechanised armoured columns. |
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Blue armour was visible, and the tramp of armoured feet was just audible, even above the roaring storm. |
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Despite being a novice at commanding armoured units, he quickly grasped the great potential of mechanised and armoured troops. |
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On August 1, in an unmistakable show of force, the Chinese military held its first ever parade of troops and armoured vehicles through Hong Kong. |
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The armoured shrouds on the four turbines looked tattered like ancient lace. |
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The armoured turret has both laying and stabilisation drives and power supply. |
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Three of their six divisions are armoured with the rest being mechanised and motorised infantry. |
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This specialisation included small arms and light weapons, armoured vehicles, and electronics. |
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Unlike the armoured Romans, Britons mostly wore little or no body protection and depended on speed, impetus, and the long slashing sword. |
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An armed attack on an armoured security van carrying thousands in cash was foiled by undercover police. |
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Security was such a concern that the seven defendants were taken to court in an armed convoy of armoured vans flanked by police motorcyclists. |
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A non-military lorry seen moving towards the armoured column in a greener part of the city was halted in its tracks by overwhelming gunfire. |
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Normal war tactics involved massed ranks of lightly armed or armoured archers firing large volleys of arrows into formations of targets. |
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In 1899, a French staff officer designed an armoured landing craft fitted with a detachable landing ramp, of about 80 tons displacement. |
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Chalayan's women's bodies in their hard-shell protection, armoured for flight, also seem isolated in their concentration. |
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He demonstrated the value of infantry strongholds, when they were properly supported, to inhibit enemy armoured thrusts. |
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One of the armoured ones sported the gold chevrons of an officer on his cuirass. |
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The Viking hordes returned to York this weekend as fierce armoured warriors mingled with the city centre crowds. |
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On shore the British moved against the armoured brigade which soon surrendered with the loss of one life. |
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Police then moved the exercise to Stormont, swarming up to the home of the power-sharing government in a train of armoured Land Rovers. |
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The military parade, a colourful pageant with troops, armoured vehicles and aircraft roaring overhead, continued uninterrupted. |
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Like Fuller and Guderian, de Gaulle advocated a fully professional army, with an armoured corps capable of swift manoeuvres. |
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The Germans often advanced against the insurgents with civilians strapped to the front of their armoured vehicles as human shields. |
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The idea was to use armoured force to penetrate deep into the enemy rear in order to destroy its command and control systems. |
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His strike hit home, knocking a few of the armoured scales loose and inflicting a minor wound. |
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Those marines were in a lightly armoured vehicle when it hit the bomb, flipped into the air and exploded in a fireball. |
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Four Warrior armoured personnel carriers arrived and in terms of firepower gave the troops the upper hand. |
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Also he got to wear a flak jacket and ride in an armoured vehicle while doing so. |
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I had two bodyguards and we would travel in a convoy of not less than two armoured vehicles. |
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The hail of energy pulses was too much for the copter's armoured hull to take, as it exploded and debris rained down onto the street far below. |
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They had him under a piece of corrugated iron, sitting cross-legged in the street with a couple of armoured cars at his side. |
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Whereas before he had counted twenty-six followers behind the armoured barbarian, now he saw only twelve. |
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A behemoth called Dead Reckoning, a 70 ft long armoured truck provides cover and support for the looters. |
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Battlecruisers are the size of battleships but more lightly armoured, so they have the speed of a cruiser. |
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The vehicle is protected with an armoured superstructure and fitted with an armoured observation cupola. |
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In 1941, all-wheel drive armoured cars were introduced, armed with 2 pounder guns. |
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He dropped his swords and pummelled the paladin's helm with his armoured gauntlets, knocking him backwards and disorientating him for a second. |
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It was the decisive land battle of the Second World War and saw armoured and aerial clashes on a ferocious scale. |
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A few days later Churchill was himself taken prisoner when the armoured train that he was travelling on was ambushed at Chieveley. |
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The gill covers are also armoured with sharp edges that can draw blood if handled without care. |
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In Caesar's time they seem to have been distinguished by armoured greaves protecting the shins and a deep plated belt. |
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The Heterostracan head is covered with several armoured plates, the body with large scales and the tail is most often diphycercal. |
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The force will have to confront groups that are very well equipped, notably with ground-to-air missiles and armoured vehicles. |
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Every few hours a patrol of armoured vehicles clanks down empty streets and there is an occasional crackle of gunfire. |
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A British gunner died after his light armoured vehicle slid down a crumbling bank and overturned. |
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The live-fire activity included combining mechanised and armoured stages of gunnery and their corresponding tactical stages. |
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During the 1926 General Strike I remember standing in Commercial Street as troops went by in armoured cars to go to the docks. |
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Shells exploded without warning among the armoured columns, every stretch of open road was a potential trap. |
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The division's long columns of trucks and Humvee armoured vehicles avoided Iraqi army and paramilitary units as they pushed north on Thursday and Friday. |
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Her foretop and funnel lie scattered by the impact of her fall which drove the breeches of her massive 15 in guns through the armoured turret tops. |
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In the close battle, armoured forces and artillery are likely to remain extremely useful in applying suppressive fire to support troops in action. |
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His bodyguards transported him by armoured car to his official residence. |
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A solid-looking cylindrical structure with slit windows in front of the bridge is the armoured conning tower, where the ship would be controlled during battle. |
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Radio nets only extended down to company level in armoured units, so that company commanders had to communicate with their tanks by hand signal or motorcycle. |
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The bow doors would open, allowing the cargo of tanks, armoured cars, bulldozers or lorries to drive off, and the LST would then wait for the flood tide to float it off again. |
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It includes squadrons of tanks, Stryker armoured fighting vehicles, infantry and ground artillery, backed by helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers. |
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When they go outside, it is by armoured car with military escort. |
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Leaving a trail of devastation behind him, a disgruntled store owner rampaged through a small Colorado town smashing buildings and cars with a makeshift armoured bulldozer. |
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When the armoured shutter is in place the driver uses a periscopic sight. |
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The Marines have captured two bridges and moved hundreds of tanks, armoured vehicles, fuel trucks, Humvees and other military vehicles across them in the past few days. |
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Today's armoured battle might take place at night, using thermal imaging devices that are in many ways better than optical sights even on a clear day. |
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If no landing craft are carried then the additional space in the docking bay allows a total of 53 tanks or 80 armoured personnel carriers to be transported. |
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The scales are covered with ganoin, a dense shiny substance like enamel, which gives the fish an archaic armoured appearance and makes it rather clumsy. |
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Soldiers in armoured vehicles and Humvees cordoned off the area. |
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Radio communications in armoured units were therefore paralleled in artillery and tactical aviation and allowed for intercommunication between them. |
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A police armoured vehicle disgorged about 30 baton-wielding riot police who charged the journalists, and seized the three as the others scattered. |
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As a dream, the concept can be dated back at least to Leonardo da Vinci, who doodled a round, wheeled, armoured vehicle with cannon firing out of ports. |
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These included components for air-to-surface missiles, aircraft machine guns, armoured personnel carriers, combat aircraft, torpedoes and combat helicopters. |
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The western ideal of chivalrous behaviour in warriors, now extensive to all soldiers, continues to be honoured centuries after the disappearance of the armoured knight. |
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Witnesses said US troops riding in jeeps and armoured vehicles opened fire after children in the crowd started pelting them with shoes and stones. |
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Others assembled crossbows whose bows were of the finest black spring steel, that could hurl a dart with such force as would kill a fully armoured destrier with a single shot. |
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Potent gules and Or, a triskelion reversed of three armoured legs argent. |
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His entourage, which comprised 400 security staff, brought 60 armoured vehicles, a cellular jamming device and a container ship, the reports said. |
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My job was as a dispatch rider for one of the armoured brigades. |
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More than 30,000 heavily armed troops and police backed by light tanks, armoured vehicles, water cannon, horses and attack dogs were deployed around the capital. |
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Now they can't safely enter the town even in armoured vehicles. |
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These heavily armoured battlewagons always produce action-packed racing at Wimbledon as the drivers push and barge their way to the front of the pack. |
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On their barrels the crews have nicknamed their armoured behemoths. |
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The armoured plates on the undamaged places on bombers, cut down losses by something like 30 per cent. |
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French troops in armoured personnel carriers rolled through the streets of Kidal in northern Mali on Wednesday. |
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The car bomb blew up without hurting anyone in the armoured bus. |
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Flatbed trucks transporting armoured vehicles pulled out of another base. |
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Cargo helicopters are heavier models capable of carrying 60 troops, lightly armoured vehicles, or underslung loads such as artillery and munitions. |
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They preferred the more military look for their dress sense mainly kitted out in black bottoms, black magnum boots and a black shirt with an armoured flak jacket over the top. |
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For all their brute strength, tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles can be temperamental beasts, requiring frequent attention to get the best out of them. |
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The circular armoured structure behind this, is not another gun turret, but the armoured conning tower from which the captain would have directed the ship during combat. |
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Tanks and armoured cars patrolled the streets as night fell on Saturday. |
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Early yesterday a column of armoured vehicles moved into the outskirts in a manoeuvre designed to draw out rebels and provide fresh targets for the air power and artillery. |
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A little further aft, pintles and ammunition for machine guns and rapid-firing anti-aircraft guns lie on the seabed, with a gun and its armoured shield among the debris. |
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Models in Veronica Lake hairdos strutted confidently down the runaway in armoured jackets and darted skirts over ribbed cashmere footless stockings and stiletto pumps. |
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About 3,000 soldiers will take part in the review, including nine columns of infantry, two columns of armoured vehicles, helicopters and a military band. |
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This gave them a paper strength of 254 machines, about the equivalent of an armoured division. |
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The German Army responded by sending a large portion of its armoured reserves to defend. |
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The Canadians planned Operation Totalize, with attacks by strategic bombers and a novel night attack using Kangaroo armoured personnel carriers. |
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The following day, Canadian commander Guy Simonds relieved the armoured divisions with infantry divisions, ending the offensive. |
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The 35-year-old Everton fan from Run-corn was commanding an armoured vehicle when he was targeted by the in surgent bomb. |
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The effect, however, was that a significant proportion of his armoured reserve was dispersed and held unusually far forward. |
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Montgomery now realised that in order to finish the enemy off he would need to make even deeper armoured thrusts. |
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Rommel's defensive measures were frustrated by a dispute over armoured doctrine. |
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He therefore proposed that the armoured formations be deployed close to the invasion beaches. |
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Although the impact upon armoured vehicles was less than expected, air activity intimidated these units and cut their supplies. |
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The German High Command remained fixated on the Calais area, and von Rundstedt was not permitted to commit the armoured reserve. |
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The Tank Museum at Bovington contains more than 300 tanks and armoured vehicles from 30 nations. |
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Tanks and other armoured vehicles are used in this area and shells are fired. |
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Crocodiles have smooth skin on their bellies and sides, while their dorsal surfaces are armoured with large osteoderms. |
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The armoured skin has scales and is thick and rugged, providing some protection. |
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There was military intervention as Italy sent land forces, and Germany sent smaller elite air force and armoured units to the Nationalists. |
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When the word kusari is used in conjunction with an armoured item it usually means that mail makes up the majority of the armour composition. |
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Kusari jackets, hoods, gloves, vests, shin, shoulder, thigh guards, and other armoured clothing were produced, even kusari tabi socks. |
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Another soldier was seen fleeing a blazing armoured car in a separate incident caught by TV cameras. |
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A ZULU king's security measures were deflated after a nail pierced a bulletproof tyre on his armoured car. |
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Up to 100 trucks and armoured cars have been shipped 900 miles to Rosyth before being driven to their new home in Leuchars. |
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The RG41 wheeled armoured combat vehicle features a unique modular mine protected design and integrated independent suspension and driveline. |
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The prototype of a new generation of armoured cars has been put on show for the first time. |
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In early development stages, the Armoured Combat Vehicle Project is currently mandated to replace the army's 200 Cougar armoured vehicles. |
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Other orders included a pounds 500m deal to supply armoured combat vehicles to Norway. |
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Other orders outside the UK and the US included a pounds 500m deal to supply armoured combat vehicles to Norway. |
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Under Operation Augural, Canada's Department of National Defence provided training for the troops operating the armoured vehicles. |
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The armoured giants of the reptile kingdom, including giant tortoises, green turtles, crocodiles and caimans. |
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For the last in the series, David Attenborough focuses on the armoured giants of the reptile kingdom, including giant tortoises and caimans. |
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Ceramic armour is used in armoured vehicles for its attenuative properties. |
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The English began using lightly armoured mounted troops, known as hobelars. |
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In the 1970s, a more conventional armoured Land Rover was built for the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Wales called the Hotspur. |
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The British Army has used various armoured Land Rovers, first in Northern Ireland but also in more recent campaigns. |
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They were also at this time building the versatile GKN developed GKN FV432 armoured personnel carrier. |
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In 1998 the armoured vehicle business was sold to Alvis plc, and subsequently incorporated into Alvis Vickers Ltd. |
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On 4 June 2004, BAE Systems outbid General Dynamics for Alvis Vickers, the UK's main manufacturer of armoured vehicles. |
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Apart from tanks, Alvis makes armoured infantry fighting vehicles, and armoured personnel carriers. |
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The battle plan was to advance along the coastal road, while limited armoured forces operated on the desert flank. |
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He also noted that, in the Italian Campaign, the armoured units stationed near the coast had been damaged by naval bombardment. |
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The RUC used CS gas, armoured vehicles and water cannons, but were kept at bay by hundreds of nationalists. |
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The RUC deployed Shorland armoured cars mounted with heavy Browning machine guns. |
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Two armoured vehicles were on patrol was near Luhansk when one struck the mine. |
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The primary armoured fighting vehicle operated by the Armoured Support Group is the BvS 10 Viking All Terrain Armoured Vehicle. |
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It is 48 kilometres from Novi Travnik and about one hour's drive from Vitez in an armoured vehicle. |
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Light infantry brigades are equipped with small arms, machine guns, RPGs, body armour and light armoured vehicles. |
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In addition officers were promoted in other troop arms such as artillery and armoured troops which are not covered in this article. |
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In addition to these, there are two classes of extinct armoured fishes, the Placodermi and the Acanthodii. |
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Stegosaurs had bony back plates and tail spikes, and ankylosaurs sported heavily armoured bodies and bony tail clubs. |
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The rest of the army was made up of levies from the fyrd, also infantry but more lightly armoured and not professionals. |
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The 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh is a Regular Army armoured infantry battalion based at Tidworth Camp. |
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It also has at its disposal a large number of Leopard 1 and M113 armoured vehicles. |
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At this point the navy had seven armoured frigates and four armoured corvettes, 400 officers and 5,000 ratings. |
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This approximately doubled the allocated number of ships to 38 battleships, 20 armoured cruisers, 38 light cruisers. |
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In theory, a lightly armoured ship could stay out of range of a slower opponent while still scoring hits. |
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On the British side, the eight armoured cruisers were deficient in both speed and armour protection. |
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The sixty remaining French divisions made a determined resistance but were unable to overcome the German air superiority and armoured mobility. |
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Though Poland had been quickly defeated, many armoured vehicles had been lost and were hard to replace. |
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In it he avoided mentioning Guderian and played down the strategic part of the armoured units, to avoid unnecessary resistance. |
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At various points in the campaign, the French were not able to achieve the same tempo as German armoured units. |
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It was to face the elite German armoured divisions in their attack at Sedan. |
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The French Seventh Army failed to block the German armoured reinforcements from the 9th Panzer Division, which reached Rotterdam on 13 May. |
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Police deployed noisemakers and armoured vehicles to push demonstrators back. |
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The Luftwaffe subjected lines of resistance to ferocious assault, which then quickly collapsed under armoured attack. |
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The unit under his command, barely above company size when it had captured the Italian fort, had grown into an armoured division. |
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One bomb hit the battleship on her forecastle and penetrated the armoured deck. |
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At the side of the Great Hall of the People another armoured personnel carrier was surrounded by a mob of workers who smashed at it with iron bars. |
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Czech company Excalibur Group will be supplying 16 vehicles including T-72 M1 tanks, BMP armoured infantry fighting vehicles and rocket launchers to Nigeria. |
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Long said that the claspers were used by the ancient fish, an extinct class of armoured fish called placoderms, to grip inside the female while they were mating. |
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Military vehicles including an original German Marder tank or self propelled gun supported by an armoured half-track, jeeps, motorcycles and other light vehicles. |
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Carriers were also more economical than battleships because of the relatively low cost of aircraft and their not requiring to be as heavily armoured. |
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Some public authorities, police forces, and military forces make use of armoured buses where there is a special need to provide increased passenger protection. |
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Seven Mile Bridge towards Pigeon Key was used for the sequence in which the armoured truck transporting Sanchez following his arrest is driven off the edge. |
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The Crusades' first experience of the Turkish tactic of lightly armoured mounted archers was when an advanced party led by Bohemond and Duke Roberts was ambushed at Dorylaeum. |
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Three Thai infantry and one cavalry division, spearheaded by armoured reconnaissance groups and supported by the air force, engaged the retreating Chinese 93rd Division. |
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However, as the division was part of the armoured reserve, Feuchtinger was obliged to seek clearance from OKW before he could commit his formation. |
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These ships carry equipment and supplies to support a major armed force with tanks, armoured personnel carriers, munitions, fuel, spare parts and even a mobile field hospital. |
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The regiment consists of a single operational battalion, which was based in Catterick between 2008 and 2015, thereafter moving to Aldershot in the armoured infantry role. |
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In armoured dinoflagellates, these support overlapping cellulose plates to create a sort of armor called the theca, as opposed to athecate dinoflagellates. |
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Like other crustaceans, they have an armoured exoskeleton, but they are so small that in most species, this thin armour and the entire body is almost totally transparent. |
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In 1887 Caprivi requested the construction of ten armoured frigates. |
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Shortages of funding meant it was not possible to create several designs of cruisers specialised for long range work, or more heavily armoured for fleet work. |
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The German High Seas Fleet could muster at least 13 dreadnoughts and many armoured cruisers along with dozens of destroyers to attack the Channel. |
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Despite having a numerically superior armoured force, the French failed to use it properly, or to deliver an attack on the vulnerable German bulge. |
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On 22 May, the British troops had established roadblocks outside the town and French rearguards skirmished with German armoured units, as they advanced towards Calais. |
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In the fighting around Hill 262, German losses totalled 2,000 men killed, 5,000 taken prisoner and 55 tanks, 44 guns and 152 other armoured vehicles destroyed. |
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Two Italian armoured divisions, Ariete and Trieste initially remained under Italian control as the Italian XX Motorized Corps under the command of General Gastone Gambara. |
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Engineers would clear and mark the two lanes through the minefields, through which the armoured divisions from X Corps would pass to gain the Pierson Line. |
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On 1 November the two German armoured divisions had 102 effective tanks to face Supercharge and the Littorio and Trieste Divisions had 65 tanks between them. |
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Main battle tanks, and other heavy equipment such as armoured fighting vehicles, military aircraft, and ships, are characteristic to organised military forces. |
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The largest component is infantry, but they are supported by small artillery, logistics, and air force units, and a single armoured reconnaissance company. |
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It is a minimum-maintenance armoured fighting vehicle and complete replacement of the engine and transmission is possible in 30 minutes under field conditions. |
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An armoured personnel carrier manned by South African soldiers serving with the UNAMID drives through the village of Kafod in North Darfur during a patrol through the region. |
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He added that 34 items of military armoured hardware bearing signs of a military peacekeeping contingent had been spotted in the eastern region of Bryansk. |
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The work is underway on R4 upgrades as part of the African Warrior programme, but other equipment has been upgraded including the Rooikat armoured vehicle. |
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Russia now risks its international financial markets access with the Kremlin's decision to amass armoured divisions and artillery units in Rostov, Kursk and Belgorod. |
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