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Gandiva, a bow created by Brahma and used by Arjuna during the Kurukshetra War. Sharanga, the bow of the Hindu god Vishnu and his avatars. Kaundinya's bow, a magic bow wielded by the Brahman Kaundinya, who used it to make the Naga princess Mera fall in love with him. [14] Indra's bow, the rainbow is depicted as an archer's bow. Indra, the god ...
Commands & Colors: Ancients is a board wargame designed by Richard Borg, Pat Kurivial, and Roy Grider, and published by GMT Games in 2006.It is based on Borg's Commands & Colors system using some elements similar to his other games such as Commands & Colours: Napoleonics, The Great War, Memoir '44 and Battle Cry designed to simulate the "fog of war" and uncertainty encountered on real ...
The Claymore mine is a directional anti-personnel mine developed for the United States Armed Forces.Its inventor, Norman MacLeod, named the mine after a large medieval Scottish sword.
Conventional weapons include small arms, defensive shields, light weapons, sea and land mines, as well as bombs, shells, rockets, missiles, and cluster munitions. [2] These weapons use explosive material based on chemical energy, as opposed to nuclear energy in nuclear weapons.
NASA visualization and narration of the Chelyabinsk meteor air burst.. A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere.
The repeating crossbow (Chinese: 連弩; pinyin: Lián Nǔ), also known as the repeater crossbow, and the Zhuge crossbow (Chinese: 諸葛弩; pinyin: Zhūgě nǔ, also romanized Chu-ko-nu) due to its association with the Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang (181–234 AD), is a crossbow invented during the Warring States period in China that combined the bow spanning, bolt placing, and ...
Estimates for the draw of these bows varies considerably. Before the recovery of the Mary Rose, Count M. Mildmay Stayner, Recorder of the British Long Bow Society, estimated the bows of the Medieval period drew 90–110 pounds-force (400–490 newtons), maximum, and W. F. Paterson, Chairman of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries, believed the weapon had a supreme draw weight of only 80–90 lb f ...
Taiwan (13 sets MK15 Phalanx Block 1B Baseline 2, 8 set is for upgrading the current Block 0 to MK15 Phalanx Block 1B Baseline 2, total cost: 0.416B with 260K MK 244 MOD 0 armor piercing bullet, Baseline2 is the newest model in Block 1B on 11/2016) [41] [1] Kidd-class destroyer; La Fayette-class frigate; Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate; Knox ...