Conventional Weapons & Warfare History
epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Nick Childs

CHAPTER NINE For Sale On Tuesday, 2 June 1981, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother had launched the new Ark Royal, the third Invincible-class carrier, at the Swan Hunter shipyard at ...
( Category: Engineering March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Bob Carruthers [Carruthers, Bob]

The Skoda gun has a 30-degree traverse with an elevation of from minus 8 degrees to plus 12. The AP tracer shell, 3.68 pounds, has a velocity of 2,540 f/s, ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-22 | Author:John Walter

The Browning Copies A good example of the fluctuating fortunes of the small handgun was provided by the introduction of the 6.35mm Browning pocket pistol, which, greeted with great acclaim, ...
( Category: Shooting March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Alan Abbey

A ship does not have to attempt to free itself and can choose to remain aground. It can defend itself and fire during the Firing Phase. Transport Ships Transport, cargoes ...
( Category: Battletech March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-18 | Author:John Grehan & Martin Mace

NORMAN, Gilbert Maurice Date of death: 6 September 1944 Place of death: Mauthausen, Germany Rank: Major Parent unit: Durham Light Infantry Service number: 156759 Decorations: Mentioned in Despatches Date joined ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-18 | Author:Pat Ware & Brian Delf [Ware, Pat]

Mk 3 or Mk 5 Centurion, one of a large batch (650) produced by the Royal Ordnance Factories from 1950. The main gun is the ‘B barrel’ 20-pounder (83.4mm). (Warehouse ...
( Category: Engineering March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-18 | Author:Terry Gander

Despite its numerous troubles, many of which had been ironed out by 1945 (although case-extraction problems persisted), the 8.8cm FlaK 41 was an outstanding anti-aircraft gun to the extent that ...
( Category: Military Technology February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Neil Grant

Since repeated stripping and reassembly, cocking and dry-firing led to wear and poor fit of the working parts of the gun, old and worn-out guns were deactivated and converted into ...
( Category: Engineering February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Neil Grant

A Lewis gunner of the Royal Garrison Artillery with his weapon on a cartwheel mount for antiaircraft defence, France, March 1918. Note that despite the mount, the gun is not ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Avner Cohen

Jurisdictional Confusion In the summer of 1954, in response to internal disputes within the IAEC, Prime Minister Moshe Sharet wrote to his predecessor, former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, asking him ...
( Category: Arms Control February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:David Buttery [Buttery, David]

Map 5: Battle of Roliça, 17 August 1808 The French levelled an accurate and telling fire on the allies as they advanced, to which they had little chance to respond ...
( Category: Military February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-26 | Author:Grossman, Nicholas;

SMALL, COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE DRONES AND TERRORIST STRATEGY Like many other technologies, as UAVs become more ubiquitous, they will become cheaper and easier to acquire. As with computers, cell phones, and ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-26 | Author:Martin Pegler

Confederate sharpshooter Berry Benson, posing with his Enfield rifled musket. (Augusta Museum of History) Training was initially on an ad hoc basis. The Union sharpshooters used a series of War ...
( Category: Firearms February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-09 | Author:Richard Rhodes [Rhodes, Richard]

Security can now only be achieved in common. No longer against each other but only with each other shall we be secure. EGON BAHR ELEVEN GOING AROUND IN CIRCLES MIKHAIL ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History February 19,2020 )