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An ironclad is a steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates used in the early part of the second half of the 19th century.

The ironclad was developed as a result of the vulnerability of wooden warships to explosive or incendiary shells.

The first ironclad battleship, was launched by the French Navy in November 1859.

The British Admiralty had been considering armored warships since 1856 and prepared a draft design for an armored corvette in 1857; in early 1859 the Royal Navy started building two iron-hulled armored frigates, and by 1861 had made the decision to move to an all-armored battle fleet.

After the first clashes of ironclads (both with wooden ships and with one another) took place in 1862 during the American Civil War, it became clear that the ironclad had replaced the unarmored ship of the line as the most powerful warship afloat.

This type of ship would come to be very successful in the American Civil War.

Heavy equipment refers to heavy-duty vehicles, specially designed for executing construction tasks, most frequently ones involving earthwork operations.

They are also known as heavy machines, heavy trucks, construction equipment, engineering equipment, heavy vehicles, or heavy hydraulics.

They usually comprise five equipment systems: implement, traction, structure, power train, control and information.

Heavy equipment functions through the mechanical advantage of a simple machine, the ratio between input force applied and force exerted is multiplied.

Some equipment uses hydraulic drives as a primary source of motion.

A government budget is a government document presenting the government's proposed revenues and spending for a financial year that is often passed by the legislature, approved by the chief executive or president and presented by the Finance Minister to the nation.

The budget is also known as the Annual Financial Statement of the country.

This document estimates the anticipated government revenues and government expenditures for the ensuing (current) financial year.

For example, only certain types of revenue may be imposed and collected.

Property tax is frequently the basis for municipal and county revenues, while sales tax and/or income tax are the basis for state revenues, and income tax and corporate tax are the basis for national revenues.