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The use of gun cameras first became common for gunnery training in the 1920s, though examples were used during World War I by the British Royal Flying Corps.A special version of the Lewis gun, the Hythe Mark III, was manufactured as a camera gun for the Royal Flying Corps, used by trainees in lieu of actual Lewis guns during mock combat exercises.
Further development led to the Hythe Gun Camera Mk 111 [3], in which the camera body was incorporated into the barrel. The camera was cocked by using the Lewis gun’s cocking handle and tripped the shutter through an internal linkage to the gun’s trigger. The gun camera now looked, balanced, and behaved much like a proper Lewis gun.
Thermal camera, TV camera and laser rangefinder The SMASH is a type of remote controlled weapon station manufactured by Aselsan of Turkey . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The system is fitted with 30mm Mk44 Bushmaster II auto-cannon .
Revised versions of the P-40 soon followed: the P-40B or Tomahawk IIA had extra .30 in (7.62 mm) U.S., or .303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns in the wings and a partially protected fuel system; the P-40C or Tomahawk IIB added underbelly drop tank and bomb shackles, self-sealing fuel tanks and other minor revisions, but the extra weight did have a ...
Featuring a more conventional-looking design, the MP7 uses a short-stroke piston gas system as used on H&K's G36 and HK416 assault rifles, in place of a blowback system traditionally seen on submachine guns. [19] The MP7 is able to use 20-, 30- and 40-round magazines and fires 4.6×30mm ammunition which can penetrate soft body armor. Due to the ...
P-40-CU s/n 39-156, the first of almost 14,000 Warhawks to come off the production line. The production P-40 (Model 81A) were nearly identical to the XP-40, but was built with a 1,040 hp (780 kW) V-1710-33s and one .30 M1919 Browning in each wing. The company designation was changed to Model 81 due to the extensive changes from the standard ...
The small black patch on the nose of this North American F-86 Sabre is the fibreglass cover over the small AN/APG-30 radar that fed the A-4 radar gunsight.. A radar gunsight is a type of gunsight for aerial combat that combines a gyro gunsight with a small radar.
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