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  2. List of obsolete units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Large sack – a unit of mass equal to 2 (new) sacks; Long ton; Lot; Mark; Munjandie; Oka; Pao; Passeree – a unit of mass equal to about 4.6 kg (10.1412640605 lb) Pennyweight; Pood; Roll – a U.K. unit of mass for butter and cheese [7]: 46 equal to 24 oz (680 g) [7]: 52 Room – a U.K. unit of mass of coal equivalent to 15,680 lb (7,110 kg ...

  3. Two-inch mortar - Wikipedia

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    Postwar, the two-inch mortar was kept in service to fire smoke and illuminating rounds. It was replaced by the Royal Ordnance 51 mm infantry mortar [4] in the late 1980s. Specifications. Calibre: 2 inches (50.8 mm) Length: 21 inches (53 cm) Weight: 10 + 1 ⁄ 2 pounds (4.8 kg) Firing mechanism: Trip (small trigger) Elevation: 45-90° Range: 500 ...

  4. Crossword abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.

  5. List of infantry mortars - Wikipedia

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    This list catalogues mortars which are issued to infantry units to provide close range, rapid response, indirect fire capability of an infantry unit in tactical combat. [1] In this sense the mortar has been called "infantryman's artillery", and represents a flexible logistic solution [clarification needed] to the problem of satisfying unexpected need for delivery of firepower, particularly for ...

  6. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    One barn is equal to 1.0 × 10 −28 m 2. The name derives from the folk expressions "As big as a barn," and "Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn", used by particle accelerator physicists to refer to the probability of achieving a collision between particles. For nuclear purposes, 1.0 × 10 −28 m 2 is actually rather large. [25]

  7. List of heavy mortars - Wikipedia

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    Ordnance ML 4.2 inch Mortar United Kingdom: World War II, Korea 107: 4.2-inch mortars M2 and M30 United States: World War II, Korea, Vietnam 140: 14 cm Minenwerfer M 15 Austria-Hungary: World War I 148: Coehorn mortar M. 1841 United States: 1841 150: Mortier de 150 mm T Mle 1916 Batignolles France: World War I 150: Mortier de 150 mm T Mle 1917 ...

  8. Type 89 grenade discharger - Wikipedia

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    The Type 89 grenade discharger (八 九 式 重 擲弾筒, Hachikyū-shiki jū-tekidantō), inaccurately and colloquially known as a knee mortar by Allied forces, is a Japanese grenade launcher or light mortar that was widely used in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It got the nickname the "knee mortar" because of an erroneous Allied belief ...

  9. 2S12 Sani - Wikipedia

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    2S12 is in fact the designator for the combination of the 2B11 "Sani" heavy mortar with its transport vehicle 2F510, a GAZ-66-15 4×4 truck. The 2B11 weighs nearly 200 kg (500 lb) when fully assembled, and thus must be mounted to the 2×1 wheeled chassis 2L81 and towed to the emplacement site by the truck. The GAZ-66 prime mover also transports ...