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The Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon ( SMAW) is a smoothbore shoulder-fired rocket launcher. [2] It is a portable assault weapon (i.e., bunker buster) and has a secondary anti-armor ability. Developed from the B-300, it was introduced to the United States Armed Forces in 1984. It has a maximum effective range of 500 metres ...
The hybrid is capable of higher velocities than a combustion or pneumatic potato cannon because the pressure generated is higher than that in a combustion gun (for most fuels), and the shock wave moves faster than it can in a pneumatic (for most gases), due to the higher temperature. Projectiles fired by a hybrid have broken the sound barrier.
M134 Minigun. 85 lb (39 kg), 41 lb (19 kg) lightweight mod. The M134 Minigun is an American 7.62×51mm NATO six-barrel rotary machine gun with a high rate of fire (2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute ). [2] It features a Gatling -style rotating barrel assembly with an external power source, normally an electric motor.
Rate of fire. Maximum: 8 rpm for short periods Sustained: 4 rpm for 30 minutes. Muzzle velocity. 416.0 m/s (1,360 ft/s) Maximum firing range. 10,000 m (10,900 yd) [2] The OTO-Melara Mod 56 is an Italian-made 105 mm pack howitzer built and developed by OTO Melara. It fires the standard US type M1 ammunition.
Typhoon armed with 25 mm gun on Shaldag-class patrol boat of the Israeli Navy.. The Typhoon is a type of remote weapon station manufactured by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems of Israel, and it shares similar design principles and common technologies with Samson Remote Controlled Weapon Station (Samson RCWS), a land-based system manufactured by the same developer.
Heckler & Koch GMG. A GMG of the German Army. 28.8 kg Gun, 10.7 kg tripod and 8 kg softmount. The GMG ( Granatmaschinengewehr or "grenade machine gun") is an automatic grenade launcher developed by Heckler & Koch for the German Army. It is also often referred to as GMW or GraMaWa ( Granatmaschinenwaffe ).
L118 light gun. The L118 light gun is a 105 mm towed howitzer. It was originally designed and produced in the United Kingdom for the British Army in the 1970s. It has since been widely exported. The L119 and the United States Army's M119 are variants that use a different type of ammunition. The L118 uses separate-loading cased-charge ammunition ...
Nazi gun control argument. German Weapons Act of 18 March 1938 ( RGBl. I p. 265) The Nazi gun control argument is the claim that gun regulations in Nazi Germany helped facilitate the rise of the Nazis and the Holocaust. [1] [2] [3] Historians and fact-checkers have characterized the argument as dubious or false, and point out that Jews were ...