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The Burroughs 416L SAGE component (ESD Project 416L, [65] Semi Automatic Ground Environment System) [49] was the Cold War network connecting IBM supplied computer system at the various DC and that created the display and control environment for operation of the separate radars [65] and to provide outbound command guidance for ground-controlled ...
The Type 10 (10式戦車, Hitomaru-shiki sensha) is a Japanese fourth generation main battle tank produced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force.
Fire support base Crook, Vietnam, 1969. A fire support base (FSB, firebase or FB) is a temporary military facility used to provide fire support (often in the form of artillery) to infantry operating in areas beyond the normal range of fire support from their own base camps.
An Indian Wehrmacht volunteer in a Tobruk DFP along the Atlantic Wall, 1944. During the fighting in North Africa (1942–43), U.S. forces employed the shell scrape.This was a very shallow excavation allowing one soldier to lie horizontally while shielding his body from nearby shell bursts and small arms fire.
The South Vietnamese government on its part would provide assistance to the strategic hamlet and build an "essential socio-political base" that would break old habits and orient the residents toward identification with the country of South Vietnam. [38] President Diem in an April 1962 speech outlined his hopes for the Program:
A four-ox-team plough, circa 1330. The ploughman is using a mouldboard plough to cut through the heavy soils. A team could plough about one acre (0.4 ha) per day. The typical planting scheme in a three-field system was that barley, oats, or legumes would be planted in one field in spring, wheat or rye in the second field in the fall and the third field would be left fallow.
The TH10 had a 4,800 mm (190 in) wheelbase and a 110 PS (81 kW) DS10 diesel inline-six. [1] Around the time of introduction, the BH10 bus was introduced, with the same chassis and nose. [ 2 ] In 1954 the TH11 appeared, followed by the 125 PS TH12 in 1955. [ 3 ]
A British soldier on a beach in Southern England, 7 October 1940. Detail from a pillbox embrasure.. British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War entailed a large-scale division of military and civilian mobilisation in response to the threat of invasion (Operation Sea Lion) by German armed forces in 1940 and 1941.