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So I'd expect you to see the weight go up faster than the part count.
Not sure if that would confound or exagerate the trend.
'the red to green wavelengths are dispersed with the same tendencies as glass, but the green to blue wavelengths are dispersed more than glass. Using a convex fluorite lens element alongside a high-dispersion glass concave lens element therefore eliminates residual chromatic aberration'
The Swiss have been experimenting with recoilless chain-guns to try and reduce that footprint. Which might be interesting, but recoilless weapons are extremely unpleasant to be near due to the backblast. It still might make sense to mount such a weapon on a remote automated station, and stick it on the roof of any available truck or APC/IFV.
The hype around hypersonic missiles is overcooked. Ballistic missiles are faster. The hypersonic's advantage is supposed to be its manoeuvrability, expecting an heavy anti-ship missile to be more agile than an interceptor is just silly.
And It'd take way more than 10 missiles to overwhelm a carrier groups air defence. The combat system on an American destroyer can track "100+" targets. The carrier group has several destroyers.
In order to overwhelm the systems, you'd be getting close to the point of exhausting their interceptors. So why even bother with the fancy missiles?
Welded or rivited rings would be much more robust. Especially vs piercing weapons, like arrows or fighting knives.
But much more expensive.
Low efficiency vehicles are taxed on import, and the money raised is returned as rebates on high efficiency vehicles.
A Ford Ranger might attract the full fee, a new t Nissan leaf would get the full credit. A small ICE car attracts a smaller fee. Hybrids are given a smaller credit.
The exact amount of credit varied over time as the fees gathered changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Body_Control#Magic_Body...
Each wheel has it's own motor.
https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume19/v19i3/Pse...
Standardised workflows for entering diagnoses and treatments. Automated warnings when a treatment might be inappropriate, or drugs might interact.
The problem space is enormous.
I'm particular, communications between the airline and tsa aren't all that reliable.
See for example:
It seems like you could make good arguments for libel and tortious interference.
I'm sure spacex won't want to go down that route, but it's not a good tactic for Russia.
eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_storage#Pipeline_c...
There may be more than a day of capacity just in the pipe network.
They'd be incompatible with vacuum cleaners and Roombas for example. And may pose a challenge for some types of mops.
They already repatriated an s300 battery from Syria back to Russia.