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In its published material, the party made appeals to the idea of Britain and Britishness in a manner not dissimilar to mainstream political parties. [147] In this material it has also made prominent use of the Union flag and the colours red, white, and blue. [ 122 ]
After the end of Roman control of Britain in the early 5th century, "Saxon" mercenaries were recruited by British kings. The first are described by Gildas as arriving in "three keels" and were soon followed by more. After a dispute over pay, the Saxons revolted and were able to establish Saxon controlled areas in the east and south of England.
BMP (Ob'yekt 764) – The original main prototype of the BMP-1 was developed by the design bureau of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Works (ChTZ) and built in 1965. In comparison with Ob'yekt 765Sp1, Ob'yekt 764 was 4 mm higher, had a maximum swimming speed of 10 km/h, a lower maximum range (550 km on road) and a reduced number of firing ports for its passenger's armament (six).
Most of that difference has to do with armor—the front armor of a Bradley is resilient to armor piercing shells from a BMP-2’s 30-millimeter autocannon, while a BMP’s can be made into Swiss ...
Writer James Hayward has made an extensive study of this curious story; in The Bodies on the Beach, Hayward makes a compelling case [55] for the view that the burning seas work was driven substantially by the needs of propaganda and was a sophisticated bluff that became Britain's first major propaganda success of the war. Writing just after the ...
BMP Global Distribution Inc v Bank of Nova Scotia, a 2008–2009 case in the Supreme Court of Canada; BMP Radio, a broadcasting company based in Houston, Texas; Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BMP or BBMP), municipal corporation for the city of Bengaluru (Bengalore), India; Boase Massimi Pollitt, a former advertising agency in UK
[1] 80 BMP-1s and BMP-2s were claimed by the Abkhaziyan Army and the same amount by the South Ossetian Army. [19] 51 were in service in 1992 and 1995, 67 in 2000, 68 in 2002, 65 in 2005, 40 in 2007, [17] 149 in 2008 [20] and 79 BMP-1P and BMP-1Us in 2011. 11 BRM-1Ks were in service in 2000, 2002 and 2005 and 1 in 2008. [20]
The BMP-1AM Basurmanin is an upgraded version of BMP-1 developed by The Uralvagonzavod (UVZ) research-and-manufacturing corporation (a subsidiary of the Rostec state corporation). The BMP-1AM is BMP-1 with the original turret replaced by the turret from BTR-82A with a 2A72 30 mm autocannon , a Kalashnikov PKTM 7.62 mm medium machinegun, and ...