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  2. List of equipment of the Nigerian Army - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria: 40+ [46] Proforce Viper Light tactical vehicle Nigeria: Proforce Hulk MRAP Nigeria: 5 [47] Otokar Cobra: Light tactical vehicle Turkey: 204 [23] Casspir: MRAP South Africa: 5 [23] Casspir III variant. Reva: MRAP South Africa: 40 [48] Mk III. [49] Plasan Sand Cat: Composite armored vehicle Israel: More units ordered Light armored ...

  3. List of equipment of the South African National Defence Force

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    Entered service in 2024. The largest drone to be manufactured in South Africa and in Africa, it has an endurance of up to 35 hours of flight time and a payload capacity of 210 kg. [85] Production for the Milkor 380 is currently set at 6 systems per year with plans to increase it by up to 16 systems per year. [86]

  4. Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    It makes licensed copies of the Mills M36M (M36) handgrenade, Browning P-35 (NP-1) pistol, Beretta M12 (PMG-12) submachine gun, Beretta BM59 and FN FAL (NR1 Model 7.62) battle rifles, FN MAG (GPMG) machinegun, and RPG-7 (RPG) rocket launcher. The OBJ-006, a copy of the 7.62mm AK-47 assault rifle, is produced by DICON in 2006. [5]

  5. List of equipment of the South African Army - Wikipedia

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    South Africa: Submachine gun: 9×19mm Parabellum: 22 or 32-round magazines. An indigenously designed 9mm submachine gun similar in appearance to the MAC-10. In service since 1984. HK MP5 [3] Germany: Submachine gun: 9×19mm Parabellum: 30 or 40-round magazines. Used by the SOSF and military police. Assault rifles & Battle rifles Vektor R4 [4 ...

  6. Heat gun - Wikipedia

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    Example of hand held electric heat gun Commercial heat gun kit Flame heat gun for shrinkwrapping helicopter. A heat gun is a device used to emit a stream of hot air, usually at temperatures between 100 and 550 °C (373 and 823 K; 212 and 1,022 °F), with some hotter models running around 760 °C (1,030 K; 1,400 °F), which can be held by hand.

  7. Armscor (South Africa) - Wikipedia

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    On November 27-28 1987, a South African Airways Boeing 747-244BM Combi operating as Flight 295 was flying from Taipei, Taiwan to Johannesburg, South Africa with a stopover in Mauritius when an in-flight fire lead to the aircraft’s tail breaking off, which lead to the aircraft’s demise. Many accuse Armscor and the Apartheid regime of using ...

  8. Heated shot - Wikipedia

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    However it was better to fire the gun quickly as water boiled from the wet wad could condense in the gunpowder charge if there was an excessive delay. [ 14 ] A common practice with heated shot was to fire it with a reduced charge of gunpowder - as little as a quarter or a sixth the charge used for shooting a cold shot over the same distance. [ 13 ]

  9. Soldering gun - Wikipedia

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    A 1948 advertisement for a Weller soldering gun. Pistol-grip electrically-heated soldering tools had been used since the 1920s. In 1941 Carl E. Weller invented and later obtained U.S. patent 2,405,866 [1] for a transformer-based soldering tool which heated and cooled rapidly, [2] essentially as described in this article.