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7 m (23 ft) of concrete at maximum elevation (beyond that available during combat) with a special charge. [11] Notes The gun fired a rudimentary high explosive round which was similar in design to most of German HE rounds at the time. The main body was made of chrome-nickel steel, fitted with an aluminum alloy ballistic nose cone.
1 made; 16-inch conversion of a 18-inch Mk I (40 caliber) gun; an experimental gun used for prototype for the 16"/45 (40.6 cm) Mark I guns destined for the Nelson-class battleships; never used in combat (this gun was not used in combat as 18-inch gun and not used in combat after conversion into 16-inch gun); none survives [28]
Submachine gun 655,363 [156] SA80: Assault rifle United Kingdom: 600,000 SIG SG 550: Assault rifle Switzerland: 600,000 MG 34: General-purpose machine gun Nazi Germany: 577,120 [157] Browning M1917. and M1919. Machine gun United States: 567,340 [158] [159] Tula-Korovin TK: Semi-automatic pistol Soviet Union: 500,000 [160] Colt Single Action ...
Self-loaders use energy to reload. The world's first machine gun was the Maxim gun, developed by British inventor Sir Hiram Maxim in 1884. The world's first successful self-loading rifle was the Mondragón rifle, designed in 1908 by Mexican general Manuel Mondragón. It was the first self-loading firearm able to be operated by one person.
12 cm/12 short naval gun Japan: World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun Japan: World War I - World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun Japan: World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) 12 cm 11th Year Type naval gun Japan: World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) BL 4.7 inch /45 naval gun Mk I, Mk II 45-caliber
Hitler's engineers secretly developed some of the most ambitious projects and rapidly produced sophisticated technology decades before its time.
The oldest gun found in the continental U.S. makes for a great headline, and Seymour has been besieged by media since the paper was published. The superlative attached to the cannon is of course ...
Kord machine gun: Degtyaryov Plant: 12.7×108mm: Ammunition belt Russia: 1990s KPV heavy machine gun: Degtyaryov Plant: 14.5×114mm: Ammunition belt Soviet Union: 1944 Kulspruta m/39: Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori: 6.50×55mm 7.62×51mm NATO 8×63mm patron m/32: Ammunition belt Sweden: 1939 Kulspruta m/42: Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori ...