Other methods used to detonate IEDs and landmines, such as armoured machines that flail the ground or sift through it like a potato harvester, are less violent.
As the metal gates crumpled on impact, the armoured car's machine gun raked the courtyard with fire to provoke a response.
Taking pride of place early on is Robert Watson-Watt's back-of-the-van radio receiver that he used to demonstrate radar technology in a field near the BBC's Daventry transmission station in 1935, while later exhibits include a beast of a machine that appears more armoured car than advanced camera.
There one day he became annoyed by a fault in the Browning machine-gun of his armoured car, seized it by the muzzle and shook it, until it had fired several rounds through his chest at pointblank range.
At the rate this armoured wrecking machine is able to plough through the city, there won't be much left of the Dark Knight's hometown by closing credits.
The armoured car smashed down the wall and retreated, machine-gun bullets ricocheting off its thin armour.
After arriving at Lejjun at 03 30, the 2nd Lancers watered, fed, and breakfasted before setting out at 05 30 for Afulah on a "three-squadrons front followed by the 11th Light Armoured Car Battery and a subsection of the 17th Machine-Gun Squadron".
Though one armoured car had been damaged by a bomb, the other five Landsverks, assisted by machine gun emplacements, destroyed the eighteen Junkers of the first two waves, killing many occupants.
These divisions were supported by machine guns, three batteries from the Royal Horse Artillery or Honourable Artillery Company, and light armoured car units; two Light Armoured Motor Batteries, and two Light Car Patrols.
These mounted units were supported by machine gun squadrons, three artillery batteries from the Royal Horse Artillery or Honourable Artillery Company, and light armoured car units; two Light Armoured Motor Batteries, and two Light Car Patrols.
