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  2. Armour-piercing, capped, ballistic capped shell - Wikipedia

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    The configuration consists of an armour-piercing shell fitted with a stubby armour-piercing cap (AP cap) for improved penetration properties against surface hardened armour, especially at high impact angles, [1] and an aerodynamic ballistic cap on top of the AP cap to correct for the poorer aerodynamics, especially higher drag, otherwise ...

  3. APAV40 - Wikipedia

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    The APAV 40 is a dual purpose, anti-personnel (AP) and anti-vehicle (AV), 40 mm rifle-grenade. It has a mass of 405 g (14.3 oz), [1] and a tail with stabilizing fins. Explosion is triggered by an impact fuse. [citation needed] Two versions of the APAV 40 exist: the older F1 model which must be fired with a blank cartridge [citation needed]

  4. Iron sights - Wikipedia

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    The most common is a rear sight that adjusts in both directions, though military rifles often have a tangent sight in the rear, which a slider on the rear sight has pre-calibrated elevation adjustments for different ranges. With tangent sights, the rear sight is often used to adjust the elevation, and the front the windage.

  5. Optics and vision - Wikipedia

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    The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight or vision. The various physiological components involved in vision are referred to collectively as the visual system , and are the focus of much research in psychology , cognitive science , neuroscience and molecular biology .

  6. AT4 - Wikipedia

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    Then, the gunner moves back the front and rear sight covers, allowing the sights to pop up into their firing positions. The AT4 has iron sights that were originally developed for the cancelled Viper , and are similar in concept and use to those on assault rifles. [ 20 ]

  7. Indirect fire - Wikipedia

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    By the early 1900s the open sight was sometimes replaced by a telescope and the term goniometer had replaced "lining-plane" in English. The first incontrovertible, documented use of indirect fire in war using Guk's methods, albeit without lining-plane sights, was on 26 October 1899 by British gunners during the Second Boer War . [ 10 ]

  8. Standard Gibbs free energy of formation - Wikipedia

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    The standard Gibbs free energy of formation (G f °) of a compound is the change of Gibbs free energy that accompanies the formation of 1 mole of a substance in its standard state from its constituent elements in their standard states (the most stable form of the element at 1 bar of pressure and the specified temperature, usually 298.15 K or 25 °C).

  9. Bore axis - Wikipedia

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    The Chiappa Rhino is an example of a pistol with a low bore axis. The SIG Sauer P226 is an example of a pistol with a high bore axis.. The recoil from a fired cartridge (and the action movement) exerts a rearward impulse along the bore axis, which is commonly above the center of mass of the gun.