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ARVN rucksack — A canvas pack used by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and some US troops during the Vietnam War. PRC-25 radio carrier — A canvas back-mounted carrier with integral metal frame and straps for carrying manpack radios. Radio accessory case — A roughly rectangular canvas bag with slide keepers, for spare antenna and handset.
bag, ammunition. [NSN 8465-99-679-8281] (Manufactured to hold 200 rounds of ammunition for the FN Minimi light machine gun.) yoke, pouch side, rucksack, DPM, IRR. [NSN 8465-99-132-1561] Ancillaries: plain other arms scabbard for bayonet (fits inside frog) SA80 infantry scabbard for bayonet with sharpening stone and saw/wire cutters (fits inside ...
The standard canvas or nylon seabag, a militarized duffel bag, has been issued to service members of all branches since before World War II. However, the increase in equipment issued to an individual Marine has made containing and transporting it all in a standard seabag difficult (a phenomenon nicknamed seabag drag ), in addition to a tactical ...
Close-up of grapeshot (right) from an American Revolution sketch of artillery devices Model of a carronade with grapeshot ammunition. In artillery, a grapeshot is a type of ammunition that consists of a collection of smaller-caliber round shots packed tightly in a canvas bag [1] and separated from the gunpowder charge by a metal wadding, rather than being a single solid projectile.
This set of nylon load-carrying equipment weighed slightly more than 3 pounds (1.4 kg) as opposed to 5 pounds (2.3 kg) for the cotton canvas duck items. These two items, the lightweight rucksack and the set of nylon LCE, formed the basis for that portion of the LINCLOE quantitative material requirement dealing with load-carrying equipment.
An anti-personnel weapon, similar to canister shot, but with the shot being contained in a canvas bag, and generally of a larger caliber. So called because of the resemblance of the clustered shot in the bag to a cluster of grapes on the vine. In one variation of this, the shot was held together by a coiled bar, and was spread by a fused charge ...
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Eastpak was founded in 1952 by Bernard Godfrey of Newton, Mass, as Eastern Canvas Products USA Inc.He was later joined by his son, William, and a third partner, Monte Goldman, and began by specialising in safety equipment for the U.S. Army. [2]