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A headstamp is the marking on the bottom of a cartridge case designed for a firearm. It usually tells who manufactured the case. Military headstamps usually have only the year of manufacture . The left cartridge's headstamp says "FC 223 REM" which means that it was made by Federal Cartridge Co. and it is in the caliber .223 Remington. The ...
What appears like "TO" is actually the Arabic letters for Haa (ح) and Mim (م), the first letters of the words for "Military Factory". It is an Egyptian Military property mark, much like the broadshead arrowhead used by the British Government. The larger versions of the symbol has the numbers ٧٢ ("27") inset in the circle split by the ...
This is a list of heritage NATO country codes.Up to and including the seventh edition of STANAG 1059, these were two-letter codes (digrams). The eighth edition, promulgated 19 February 2004, and effective 1 April 2004, replaced all codes with new ones based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes.
Egypt purchased the original 215 units from the Soviet Union and a domestic production license renaming all the future machines Sakr. Sark-4 are tripod-based units, while Sakr-10 and Sakr-8 are jeep-mounted units, and the rest are truck-mounted units. Egypt also developed a wheeled based MRL called Sakr-45. RAAD 200 Egypt: 122mm MLRS N/A [83] [73]
In 1922, the Kingdom of Egypt was established under the rule of Fuad I. Fuad's administration began to modernise the armed forces. The modernisation programme was focused on mechanisation, building new military schools, enlisting more men, and reestablishing units. In 1928, the name of the Cavalry Corps was changed to the Royal Egyptian Cavalry ...
Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts left there, including a still-shiny bronze sword engraved with the name of King Ramses II in ...
The Egyptian Army (Arabic: الجيش المصري, romanized: El Geish el Masry), officially the Egyptian Ground Forces (Arabic: القوات البرية المصرية, romanized: El-Quwwāt El-Barriyya El-Maṣriyya), is the land warfare branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces. It is the largest service branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces.
Although the Egyptian military forces in the Old and Middle kingdoms were well maintained, the new form that emerged in the New Kingdom showed the state becoming more organized to serve its needs. [4] For most parts of its long history, ancient Egypt was unified under one government. The main military concern for the nation was to keep enemies out.