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The Enfield No. 2 was a British top-break revolver using the .38 S&W round manufactured from 1930 to 1957. It was the standard British/Empire sidearm in the Second World War, alongside the Webley Mk IV and Smith & Wesson Victory Model revolvers chambered in the same calibre.
The Enfield Revolver was a self-extracting British handgun designed and manufactured at the government-owned Royal Small Arms Factory in Enfield, initially in the .476 calibre (actually 11.6 mm). [ 1 ]
.45 ACP.45 Colt.44-40 Winchester.38-40 Winchester.32-20 Winchester.38 Long Colt.22 Long Rifle.38 Special.357 Magnum.44 Special United States: 1872 Continental Weapons Griffon Continental Weapons .45 ACP South Africa: CZ 97B: Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod.45 ACP Czech Republic: 1997 DOSS SH.A.R. Psh-45 DOSS SH.A.R. .45 ACP Ukraine: FitzGerald ...
London Biggin Hill, a former RAF station This list of former RAF stations includes most of the stations, airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was appropriate for the duration of operation. During 1991, the RAF had several Military Emergency Diversion Aerodrome (MEDA) airfields: RAF ...
The Casualty Branch of the Royal Air Force was established upon the outbreak of war in September 1939. [2] Within the Casualty Branch, a separate office called the Missing Research Section (MRS) was established in January 1942, which had to operate from within offices in the United Kingdom until D-Day, when the MRES became an official entity. [3]
U.S. Colt .45 M1917 Revolver. The U.S. Army Model 1917 was created to supplement insufficient stocks of M1911 pistols during World War I. [2] The Colt M1917 Revolver was a New Service with a cylinder bored to take the .45 ACP cartridge and the half-moon clips to hold the rimless cartridges in position. Later production Colt M1917 revolvers had ...
Grenade machine gun: 40×53mm: The L134A1 is used for the suppression of enemy infantry and can be mounted on both armoured vehicles and tripods. It combines the advantages of a heavy machine gun and a mortar in one; delivering a high rate of fire with fragmentation effect. The weapon has a 320 rpm rate of fire and an effective range of 1,500 m ...
An automatic revolver was communicated to Moses Poole, a patent agent, in 1841. The exact identity of the inventor of this weapon is unknown but in all likelihood it was a Frenchman by the name of Philippe Mathieu, who had patented, amongst several different types of revolver, an almost identical design two years previously. [1]