Its recommended numbers for what rapid equipping would cost in the fiscal 2016 budget are an add of $97.5 million to the R&D account for combat vehicle improvement programs and an add of $314.3 million to the wheeled & tracked combat vehicle account for Stryker modifications -- $411.8 million in all.]
Sometimes in foreign usage, the term Scandinavia also includes Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Finland, on account of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries and the Scandinavian peoples and languages. The southern and by far most populous regions of Scandinavia have a temperate climate.hile the term Scandinavia is commonly used for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the term the Nordic countries is used unambiguously for Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, including their associated territories (Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the Ãland Ã¥land). islands
the distribution of glaciers on iceland reflects topography temperatures and precipitation glaciers form where mean annual temperatures are below 0 c and where winter precipitation in the form of snow surpasses summer meltcelandic glaciers and climate iceland is a glaciated country approximately 11 % of iceland s total area of roughly 100 000 km2 is covered by glaciers figure 1 the largest ice caps in iceland are located in the southern and central highlands figure 1