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Ballistic eyewear is a form of glasses or goggles that protect from small projectiles and fragments. For the U.S. military, choices for such eye protection are listed on the Authorized Protective Eyewear List (APEL). [1] Ballistic eyewear including examples that meet APEL requirements are commercially available for anyone who wishes to buy it.
The goggles fit tightly against the face so that the only light entering is through the slits, and soot is sometimes applied to the inside to help cut down on glare. [2] [5] [6] The slits are made narrow not only to reduce the amount of light entering but also to improve the visual acuity. [2] Wider slits result in a larger field of view. [2]
The desert locust is a species of orthopteran in the family Acrididae, subfamily Cyrtacanthacridinae. [2] There are two subspecies, one called Schistocerca gregaria gregaria, the better known and of huge economic importance, located north of the equator, and the other, Schistocerca gregaria flaviventris, [9] [10] which has a smaller range in south-west Africa and is of less economic importance ...
The IBA system consists of an Outer Tactical Vest (OTV) and two Small Arms Protective Insert (SAPI) ballistic plates. The OTV features a carrier shell, and three main (flexible) ballistic panel inserts (front left and front right panels, and a rear back panel), [4] which are made with a finely woven Kevlar KM2 fiber. These two parts of the vest ...
The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have both stated that the phenomenally heavy rains have contributed to not only the devastating 2019 Burundi landslides, but also a "serious and widespread desert locust outbreak". The Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa (the ...
It includes species of locusts, short-horned grasshoppers that undergo phase polymorphism and are among the most important pests of sub-Saharan Africa; [4] they include the desert locust and the red locust, [3] with the related Bombay locust in Asia.
Australian plague locust nymph (fourth instar) Dense hopper band of desert locusts. Aiolopus simulatrix – Sudan plague locust of eastern Sudan; Anacridium aegyptium – Egyptian locust of Europe, northern Africa and Central Asia; Anacridium melanorhodon – Sahelian tree locust of Sahel region of Africa
The migratory locust is an edible insect. [6] [7] In Europe, the migratory locust is officially approved for the use in food in Switzerland (since May 2017). [8] On 2 July 2021, the European Food Safety Agency published a scientific opinion stating that the consumption of migratory locust in frozen, dried or ground state is safe for humans. [9]