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• BRP Francisco Dagohoy (PF-10)
  ...the worsening political and economic crisis in the Philippines in the mid-1980s.<ref>''Harpoon Database Encyclopedia [http://www.harpoondatabases.com/Encyc
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• ADEN cannon
  ...tish gun-armed aircraft until the advent of the [[Panavia Tornado]] in the 1980s.
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• AT4
  ...Multipurpose Weapon'' M136.<ref>the US Army had so much grief in the early 1980s from various committee members of the US Congress over the M72 LAW being of ...es a heavier and more expensive steel tube with [[rifling]] <ref>Until the 1980s the Carl Gustav was constructed of high-alloy steel, but later versions use
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• 9M123 Khrizantema
  ...Design Bureau<ref name="FAS"/>. The missile had started development in the 1980s and was designed as an all weather, multi-purpose missile system that could
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• 9K121 Vikhr
  There was much confusion toward the end of the 1980s regarding the latest Soviet anti-tank
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• 20 mm modèle F2 gun
  ...non than the [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon]] began to grow noticeably during the 1980s. The companies [[DCN]] and [[GIAT]] were contracted to design the F2 20 mm
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• 30 mm automatic cannon 2A42
  The autocannon has been used since the 1980s on the following platforms:
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• 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K)
  ...ively, as the "Type 65". A turret based version was produced from the late 1980s called the "Type 76" or H/PJA 76.
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• 4.5x26mm MKR
  |design_date=1980s ...rtridge]] was developed by [[Interdynamics AB]], a Swedish company, in the 1980s.
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• 5"/38 caliber gun
  ...with over 720,000 rounds still remaining in Navy storage depots in the mid-1980s because of the large number of Reserve Fleet ships with 5"/38 cal guns on b
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• Advanced Gun System
  ...y Program (AGWSTP) evaluated a similar projectile with longer range in the 1980s.<ref name="Van Dam"/> After the battleships were decommissioned in 1992, th
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• AK-176
  In the late 1980s an upgraded version the AK-176m, with a new fire control system MR-123-02,t
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• Halothane
  ...er]] and [[cyclopropane]]. Use of the anesthetic was phased out during the 1980s and 1990s as newer anesthetic agents became popular. Halothane retains som ...and pediatric patients worldwide from its introduction in 1956 through the 1980s. Its properties include cardiac depression at high levels, cardiac sensiti
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• BL 6 inch Mk VII naval gun
  ...n Australia]]. Obtained from Bermuda during restoration of the site in the 1980s.
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...long until the introduction of truly effective [[MANPADS]] missiles in the 1980s. L/60s are still used in the [[United States Air Force]]'s [[Lockheed AC-13 ...also used Bofors on their surface fleet, but removed the guns in the late 1980s when they were considered to be outdated. In a somewhat embarrassing episod
  28 KB (4,461 words) - 16:45, 2 July 2010
• Bofors scandal
  ...as a major [[political corruption|corruption]] scandal in [[India]] in the 1980s; the then [[Prime Minister]] [[Rajiv Gandhi]] and several others were accus ...ily of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and emerged as a powerful broker in the 1980s between big businesses and the Indian government. Even while the case was b
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• Carl Gustav M/45
  [[MK Arms]] manufactured the MK-760 during the 1980s, it's a carbon copy of the Smith & Wesson M76.
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• Close-in weapon system
  ...rozd]] system was deployed on [[Soviet Naval Infantry]] tanks in the early 1980s, but later replaced by [[explosive reactive armour]]. Other systems are ava
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• DEFA cannon
  ...1954 in aviation|1954]] until the advent of the [[Dassault Rafale]] in the 1980s. A pair of these weapons, with 125–135 rounds per gun, is standard fit on
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• GAU-13
  ...aft, including the [[F-15 Eagle]] and [[F-16 Fighting Falcon]]. In the mid-1980s the [[USAF]] considered a specialized variant of the F-16 for the [[close a
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• GIAT 30
  |service=1980s-present Introduced in the late 1980s, the GIAT 30 is a [[revolver cannon]] with electric ignition and automatic
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• Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-301
  ...and later [[Russia]]n [[military aircraft]], entering service in the early 1980s. Its current manufacturer is the Russian company [[Izhmash|Izhmash JSC]].
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• Interdynamics MKR
  | design_date = 1980s The '''Interdynamics MKR''' was an assault rifle concept of the 1980s using a [[4.5x26mm MKR|4.5x26mm Rimfire]] round using solid [[brass]] bulle
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• Lahti L-35
  ...[[Continuation War]], and it was the official [[service pistol]] until the 1980s when it was replaced by the [[Browning BDA|FN HP-DA]] pistol. (9.00 PIST 80 ...39B), the [[bolt (firearm)|bolts]] of Pistol m/40s started to crack in the 1980s. As a temporary replacement the retired [[FN Model 1903]] (Pistol m/07) pis
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• Limbo (weapon)
  |service= 1955 &ndash; 1980s ...ips on a mounting stabilised for pitch and roll from 1955 to the mid&ndash;1980s.
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• M39 cannon
  ...used on a number of [[fighter aircraft]] from the early 1950s through the 1980s.
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• M61 Vulcan
  Until the late 1980s the M61 primarily used the M50 series of ammunition in various types, typic
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• RARDEN
  ...ithin the [[Royal Ordnance Factory|Royal Ordnance Factories]] in the early 1980s, in the run up to their [[privatization|privatisation]], becoming part of [
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• RBS-15
  ...her developed version, the '''RBS-15 Mk. II''', was initiated in the early 1980s. But it took until 1994, before a development contract was signed for the u
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• Sentry gun
  ...guns. Fictional examples of automatic sentry guns have appeared since the 1980s, in films such as ''[[Aliens (1986 film)|Aliens]]'' (1986) and the televis
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• Swedish Mauser
  ...dually phased out of Swedish service starting in the 1950s until the early 1980s. They were succeeded by the [[AG-42]] [[semi-automatic]] rifle beginning i
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• Gentamicin
  Gentamicin has been used since the early 1980s in [[microbiology|microbiological]] research. The [[gentamicin protection a
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• Vancomycin
  ...and [[Aspen Pharmacare]] in Australia. The [[patent]] expired in the early 1980s, but the FDA has not authorized the sale of any generic versions in the USA
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• Ribavirin
  In Mexico, oral ribavirin has been available since the 1980s as an over-the-counter drug ("ribavirina," ICN pharmaceuticals Spanish trad
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• Metformin
  ...a condition frequently associated with insulin resistance, since the late 1980s.<ref>{{vcite journal |author=Kidson W |title=Polycystic ovary syndrome: a n
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• Aspirin
  ...n's effects, while clinical trials and other studies from the 1960s to the 1980s established aspirin's efficacy as an anti-clotting agent that reduces the r
  78 KB (10,918 words) - 16:52, 27 September 2010
• Simvastatin
  Simvastatin was introduced in the late 1980s, and in many countries it is now available as a [[Generic drug|generic]] pr
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• Paracetamol
  ...mol's safety delayed its widespread acceptance until the 1970s, but in the 1980s paracetamol sales exceeded those of aspirin in many countries, including th
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• Autarky
  *[[Romania]] in the 1980s [[Nicolae Ceausescu]] proposed such goals as paying the entire foreign debt
  8 KB (1,163 words) - 15:33, 18 September 2010
• Watsu
  Watsu was created by therapist [[Harold Dull]] in the early 1980s, then director of the [[Harbin Hot Springs|Harbin School of Shiatsu and Mas
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• Temazepam
  ...|volume=19 |issue=10 |pages=1647–52 |pmid=4311716}}</ref> By the late [[1980s]], temazepam was one of the most popular and widely prescribed [[hypnotics ...title=Fatal poisonings attributed to benzodiazepines in Britain during the 1980s |journal=Br J Psychiatry |volume=163 |issue= |pages=386–93 |year=1993 |pm
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...planation of religious conversion and indoctrination. During the 1970s and 1980s he was a prominent opponent of the controversial methods of [[deprogramming
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• Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
  ...er encyclopaedia content online (in association with [[LexisNexis]] in the 1980s), and currently publishes in several mediums, including DVD and through its
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  In the 1980s, [[Microsoft]] approached Britannica Inc. to collaborate on a [[CD-ROM]] en
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• Pitch (resin)
  ...t dripping in 1930, only eight drops have fallen. It was calculated in the 1980s that the pitch in the experiment has a viscosity approximately 230 [[100000
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• Aramid
  ...patents on the production process, Akzo and DuPont had a patent war in the 1980s. Twaron is currently owned by the [[Teijin Aramid|Teijin]] company (see Pr
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• Electroactive polymers
  ...trical conductance|conductance]] was close to that of a metal. By the late 1980s a number of other polymers had been shown to exhibit a [[piezoelectric effe
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• Liquid crystal polymer
  A high number of LCPs, produced in the 1980s, displayed order in the melt phase analogous to that exhibited by nonpolyme
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• Superabsorbent polymer
  ...0/description.html]</ref> SAP was discontinued from use in tampons due to 1980s concern over a link with [[toxic shock syndrome]]. SAP is also used for blo
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• Polylysine
  ...Shoji Shima and Heiichi Sakai in 1977.<ref name="Shima"/> Since the late 1980s, polylysine has been approved by the Japanese “Ministry of Health, Labour
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