Many of O.S.E.'s supporters are "makers": digitally sophisticated hobbyists who, with the aid of 3-D-design software and inexpensive 3-D printers, are building all kinds of custom objects: jellyfish tanks, aerial kite cameras, solar-powered xylophones.
He met and conversed with nearly every well-known statesman and writer of his time, and in his science fiction and speculative prose he foresaw the invention of, among other things, television, tanks, aerial warfare and the atom bomb.
As with tanks and aerial warfare in the Second World War, though, the U.A.V.s just spread the war more widely, killing more innocents, even in the most remote places.
The northern army rolled into Abyei with numerous tanks, following aerial bombardments and shelling, easily dispersing a numerically inferior opposition.
On 12 October French troops backed by tanks, artillery and aerial support launched a wide scale operation to surround and eliminate the Ghouta rebels in the al-Zur forest.
The age of classic, very visible warfare, in the form of tank battles or aerial dogfights, for example, and of classic physical threats to Britain, may be over.
It's a collection of deactivated tank shells, inert aerial shells, sniper bullets and a reproduction land mine – items Mahmood assembled from military memorabilia fairs around the UK.
The Sa'iqa company to the east, under concentrated Israeli tank fire and aerial bombardment, was finally overwhelmed by the Israeli reinforcements, which proceeded towards the fort, opening fire on the main force.
After mentioning the shelling of the tanks by ships, the aerial dogfights overhead, and the confusion on the beach, the Britisher summed it all up.
Rebel commanders say they anticipate a major Syrian army offensive in Aleppo and one fighter said they had already had to pull back from some streets after army snipers advanced on Saturday under cover of the fierce aerial and tank bombardment.
"They used all kinds of weapons against us, tanks, artillery, missiles and finally aerial bombings.
