When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. V-2 rocket - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket

    The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2'), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range [4] guided ballistic missile.The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a "vengeance weapon" and assigned to attack Allied cities as retaliation for the Allied bombings of German ...

  3. Ethnic plastic surgery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_plastic_surgery

    Ethnic plastic surgery, or ethnic modification, refers to the types of plastic surgery performed frequently due to certain racial or ethnic traits, or with the intention of making one's appearance more similar or less similar to people of a particular race or ethnicity. [1]

  4. AN/APG-63 radar family - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/APG-63_radar_family

    The APG-63 was developed in the early 1970s and has been operational since 1973, and was installed on all F-15A/Bs. [1] In 1979, it received a major upgrade and became the first airborne radar to incorporate a software programmable signal processor (PSP), and the PSP allowed the system to be modified to accommodate new modes and weapons through software reprogramming rather than by hardware ...

  5. Racism in Vietnam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Vietnam

    The Vietnamese construct of race at the time was the one who shared "biological bloodline" or having the common Vietnamese descent. [2] The term đồng bào (compatriots) also accentuates the same meanings, were later extended to the Chinese in Mekong Delta who had often intermarried with the Vietnamese, but was never applied to peoples of ...

  6. Leopard 2 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard_2

    The main change was the addition of the SEM80/90 digital radio sets (also being fitted to the Leopard 1 at the same time), and the ammunition reloading hatches being welded shut. Even with these minor changes the new batch was known as the 2A3 .

  7. Race for the Galaxy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_for_the_Galaxy

    Race for the Galaxy (RftG), or simply Race, is a card game designed by Thomas Lehmann. It was released in 2007 by Rio Grande Games . Its theme is to build galactic civilizations via game cards that represent worlds or technical and social developments.

  8. Autotopagnosia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autotopagnosia

    Due to the subjective nature of autotopagnosia, there are many hypotheses presented as to the underlying causation. Since the condition by definition is an inability to recognize the human body and its parts, the disorder could stem from a language deficit specific to body parts.

  9. Avangard (hypersonic glide vehicle) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avangard_(hypersonic_glide...

    The Avangard (Russian: Авангард, "Vanguard"; previously known as Objekt 4202, Yu-71 and Yu-74) is a Russian hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). It can be carried as a multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) payload of heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), such as the UR-100UTTKh, [6] [7] R-36M2 and RS-28 Sarmat.