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  2. Military dummy - Wikipedia

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    The inflatable dummies are designed to present a realistic image to enemy radar and thermal imaging. [8] During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, AFU successfully used wooden dummies of HIMARS in order to divert Russian missile strikes. [9] An intercontinental ballistic missile may release decoys in addition to one or more warheads.

  3. Ballistic gelatin - Wikipedia

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    Ballistic gelatin is traditionally a solution of gelatin powder in water. Ballistic gelatin closely simulates the density and viscosity of human and animal muscle tissue, and is used as a standardized medium for testing the terminal performance of firearms ammunition. While ballistic gelatin does not model the tensile strength of muscles or the ...

  4. An examination of the hymen is not an accurate or reliable indicator that a woman or girl has had penetrative sex, because the tearing of the hymen may have been the result of some other event, and some women are born without one. [385] [386] [387] Virginity tests, such as the "two-finger" test, are widely considered to be unscientific. [388 ...

  5. MythBusters - Wikipedia

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    Early episodes made heavy use of crash-test dummies for observing blunt trauma injury, and ballistic gelatin for testing penetrating trauma; whatever form and function it possessed, the dummy would always be named Buster The crew progressed to using pig carcasses when an experiment required a more accurate simulation of human flesh, bone, and ...

  6. Ballistics - Wikipedia

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    A ballistic body is a free-moving body with momentum, which can be subject to forces such as those exerted by pressurized gases from a gun barrel or a propelling nozzle, normal force by rifling, and gravity and air drag during flight.

  7. Takeaways from a report that questions the accuracy of ... - AOL

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    As Iran threatens to retaliate against Israel over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the accuracy of the Islamic Republic's long-vaunted missile program has been called ...

  8. Live fire exercise - Wikipedia

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    For submarines, both fast attack and ballistic missile (or "boomers"), live-fire tests may include firing sea-to-land missiles at targets on shore or launching dummy ballistic missiles; however, the most frequent live-fire exercises conducted by submarines involve firing torpedoes at a target.

  9. Headline News ("Weird Al" Yankovic song) - Wikipedia

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    The song and video were met with mostly positive reviews from critics, although at least one critic for The Commercial Appeal felt that the source material was already dated upon the single's release. Crash Test Dummies themselves were pleased with the final result and even performed the song with Yankovic in concert twice.