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Schematic of the XM28 armament subsystem, including the XM129 grenade launcher in AH-1 Cobra. The M129 was effectively a redesign of the older M75 to incorporate a concentric cam and improved mount. [3] The major problem with the M75 was the torque created due to the barrel being below the operating drum.
T2AAP = 3,600 Cartridges, .45 ACP Ball M1911, in 50-round Cartons, 12 cartons per M5 Ammo Can, 3 M5 Ammo Cans per rectangular cardboard box, 2 horizontally-stacked cardboard boxes per metal 20mm Mk.1 Mod.0 ammo box. Used by the Navy and Marine Corps starting in 1943 to replace the small and large M1917 wooden packing boxes.
[2] 2008 Gërdec explosions, Albania. U.S. and Albanian munitions experts accidentally trigger an ammunition explosion killing 26, injuring 350 and destroying hundreds of houses. Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion, Cyprus, 2011, killed 13 people (including 6 civilians). 2012 Brazzaville arms dump blasts, Republic of Congo killed at least ...
The case of the cartridge was crimped around the rear rotating band. The complete round weighed approximately 820 g (1.81 lb) with the projectile weighing 320 g (0.71 lb). [1] The propellant was 102 grams of single-perforated, graphited grains of nitrocellulose approximately 2 mm in diameter and between 2.5 and 4.5 mm in length. [5]
Telescoped ammunition for the 40 mm Cased Telescoped Armament System (CTAS) by CTA International (right) 4.73×33mm telescoped and caseless ammunition for the Heckler & Koch G11, with .223 Remington cased ammunition for comparison. Telescoped ammunition is an ammunition design in which the projectile is partially or completely enveloped by the ...
The Sokol-1 guided shell is fired from the 125 mm main gun, it borrowed design from the 152mm artillery shell 3OF75 Santimetr-M and both have very similar appearance, but with an added shaped charge cap into its design similar to the M712 Copperhead, intended to defeat heavily armoured targets.
The T249 Vigilante was a prototype 37 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) designed as a replacement for the Bofors 40 mm gun in both towed and self-propelled forms in US Army service. [1] The system consisted of a 37 mm T250 six-barrel rotary cannon mounted on a modified M113 armored personnel carrier chassis.
The Ho-301 was a Japanese 40 millimeter caliber autocannon that saw limited use during World War II, on Japanese Army Nakajima Ki-44 and Kawasaki Ki-45 KAI aircraft. It was unusual in using caseless ammunition. Although the effective range of the cannon was only 150 meters (490 ft), the Ho-301 was light and rapid-firing for its caliber.