(Askeri) VULCAN: Alçak irtifa hava savunması sağlayan ve kara kuvvetlerine karşı doğrudan doğruya kullanabilen bir kara kuvvetleri hava savunma topu. Bu top altı namlulu hava soğutmalı ve 20 mm. lik dönerek ateşlenen bir silahtır
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in Roman mythology, the god of fire and of making things from metal. In Greek mythology his name is Hephaestus. Ancient Roman god of fire. He was the counterpart of the Greek Hephaestus. Vulcan was especially associated with the destructive aspects of fire, such as volcanoes or conflagrations, and for this reason his temples were usually located outside the city. His chief festival, the Volcanalia, was marked by a rite in which the heads of Roman families threw fish into the fire. Often invoked to avert fire, he was addressed with epithets such as Mulciber ("Fire Allayer"). Hypothetical planet within the orbit of Mercury. It was predicted in 1859 by Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier (1811-77) to account for an unexplained component of the precession of Mercury's orbit. Sightings were reported between 1859 and 1878, but these were not confirmed subsequently by observations made either during solar eclipses or when the planet was predicted to cross the Sun. The anomalies of Mercury's orbit were later explained by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity
An Army air defense artillery gun which provides low-altitude air defense and has a direct fire capability against surface targets The gun is a 6-barreled, air-cooled, 20-mm rotary-fired weapon
(a) A planet whose existence inside the orbit of Mercury was postulated to explain orbital eccentricities It does not exist (b) A hot, dry, red planet with green-blooded inhabitants whose civilisation has evolved beyond emotion It does exist
A hypothetical planet supposed to lie inside the orbit of Mercury, but always on the opposite side of the Sun from the Earth, making it invisible Originally postulated to account for perturbations in planetary orbits, this planet is no longer supposed to exist by science, although some astrologers claim it as a sort of spiritual entity having power in a horoscope