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• New guilding for coin aircraft? Dominican Republic Super Tucano with 12.7-mm machine gun and armour protection.

When World War One ended, the only way for Britain's newly formed Royal Air Force (RAF) to justify its continued existence was to demonstrate that it ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 2, Avril 2010

• Lightweight, but heavy oomph: combat experience in Afghanistan, Iraq and other asymmetric conflicts is influencing the development of compact light machine guns that can dominate the 'mid-range battlespace'.

In the early 1970s the engineers of Belgium's FN Herstal developed the Minimi, the world's first 5.56 mm light machine gun (LMG), in anticipation that...

• Armada International
• Vol. 31 Num. 4, Août 2007

• Arrêt nº 2C 187/2010 de IIe Cour de Droit Public, 18 janvier 2011

Regeste Art. 106 BV; Art. 1 Abs. 2 LG; Art. 1 Abs. 2 SBG; Begriff der Lotterie; Spiel "Tactilo". Das Verhältnis zwischen dem Lotteriegesetz und dem Spielbankengesetz bestimmt sich nach der gesetzlichen Unterscheidung aus den 1920er Jahren (E. 6.1). Das Lotteriegesetz stellt gegenüber dem Spielbankengesetz eine lex specialis dar (E. 6.2). Die verwendete Technik (hier elektronischer Natur) hat keinen Einfluss auf die juristische Qualifikation als Glücksspiel im Sinne des Lotteriegesetzes, wenn die entsprechenden gesetzlichen Voraussetzungen erfüllt sind (E. 6.3). Begriff der Lotterie im Sinne von Art. 1 Abs. 2 LG; Erfordernis der "Planmässigkeit" (Bestätigung der Rechtsprechung, E. 7.1 und 7.2); aufgrund der festgestellten konkreten Umstände erfüllt das Gerät "Tactilo" die Voraussetzunge...

...�re des règles de probabilité des pures machines à sous, dès lors que celles-ci ne visent qu'à r...

• Fighting in sand land: operating in the harsh climate of desert regions poses many challenges for military forces. Extreme desert climates and terrain can test both man and machine to the limit.

Severe extremes of heat, dust, sun and sand are the major challenges facing armies operating in desert regions, requiring specialist tactics, equipmen...

• Armada International
• Vol. 26 Num. 6, Décembre 2002

• Googlish--the new computer language: when an innovative team at Google introduced the 'Translate this Page' feature a while back, its Internet search machine didn't reckon on German syntax. Google illustrates the pitfalls of the many online translation services expats know and love.

"What hath God wrought!" marvelled Samuel EB. Morse in his first cable upon inventing the electromagnetic telegraph in 1852. "Mr. Watson. Come here....

• Swiss News
• Num. 2005, Janvier 2005

• Nobel by Name, Noble by Nature

The Nobel Laureates are selcted by different entities as specifically designated by [Alfred Bernhard Nobel] in his testament: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry, Karolinska Institute for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Swedish Academy for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and a Committee of five persons to be elected by the Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) for the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank established the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobeland a year later the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was given the task to select the Economics Prize Laureates starting in 1969. In the words of a fine man, a great orator and one of America's brightest sons, "I think Alfred Nobel would k...

... company that manufactured explosives and machine tools. In 1842, Immanuel brought Alfred and the re...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 22 Num. 29, Septembre 2009

• Arrêt nº 4C.321/2006 de Ire Cour de Droit Civil, 1 mai 2007

... ni dégâts autres que ceux causés à la machine. La première partie du mât était en position ve...

• Arrêt nº 5C.29/2005 de IIe Cour de Droit Civil, 14 juillet 2005

Regeste Annulation d'un testament olographe (art. 505 et 520 CC). Interprétation d'un testament olographe rédigé en partie à la machine par le banquier de la testatrice et en partie à la main par celle-ci, en présence d'un témoin (consid. 3). Ungültigerklärung eines eigenhändigen Testaments (Art. 505 und 520 ZGB). Auslegung eines eigenhändigen Testamentes, welches teils vom Bankier der Erblasserin mit Maschine, teils von der Erblasserin in Gegenwart eines Zeugen eigenhändig verfasst worden ist (E. 3). **************************************** Regesto Annullamento di un testamento olografo (art. 505 e 520 CC). Interpretazione di un testamento olografo redatto, in presenza di un testimone, in parte dal banchiere della testatrice con una macchina da scrivere e in parte scritto a mano dall...

• Nasty and fired from under.

... and can be armed with 12.7-mm and 7.62-mm machine guns and 40-mm automatic grenade launchers. The nu...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 4, Août 2010

• What Where When Who

In the early 1970s, a Swedish engineer named Håkan Lans invented a tool for facilitating personal computer workflow. The device, which he called the "digitizer" was a point-and-click tool that connected to a machine's regular keyboard outlet. The invention never took off then, Lans didn't even take out a patent, but a few years later, Stephen Jobs and colleagues introduced the world to the computer mouse. Much has happened since, it's taken different forms, shapes and colors, it even became intelligent and now, there's an ergonomie solution, also originating in Sweden - the Trackbar Emotion, an economically correct computer mouse replacement device, which received the "Attendees' Choice" award at the National Ergonomic Conference and Exposition, held in Las Vegas in December, 2007. It'...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 21 Num. 23, Février 2008
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