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How the British Army is Trying to Give Its Tanks 'Shields
« on: September 23, 2017, 07:36:36 pm »
by Michael Peck

Britain has announced that it will be developing active protection systems to defend its armored vehicles from antitank rockets.Russia and Israel already use active protection systems, or APS, to defend their armor, and the United States is now evaluating them. Britain, whose armor force has been somewhat neglectin recent years, is now joining the party.

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"Of Arms and Man I Sing"-The Aenid written by Virgil-Virgil commenced his epic story of Aeneas and the founding of Rome with the words: Arma virumque cano--"Of arms and man I sing.Aeneas receives full treatment in Roman mythology, most extensively in Virgil's Aeneid, where he is an ancestor of Romulus and Remus. He became the first true hero of Rome