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Forgotten Weapons is a website and channel appearing on YouTube, Utreon, Full30 and Floatplane, created and presented by Ian McCollum. Forgotten Weapons covers the history of antique, obscure, and historically important firearms. [1]
The overall wheelbase was lengthed to 14 ft 9 in (4.50 m) from 12 ft (3.7 m) and the body's loadbed was now 18 ft (5.5 m) long inside. To control costs, more standard AEC parts were used and there was no winch. The AEC engine of the R/6/T was used together with AEC gearbox and axle final drives. The FWD transfer box was retained but the portal ...
AEC of Southall, England was a manufacturer of truck and bus chassis and its Matador artillery tractor was used for towing medium field and heavy anti-aircraft guns. The armoured car based on the Matador artillery chassis was developed initially as a private venture and a mock-up was shown to officials in 1941 at Horse Guards Parade in London, where it made a favourable impression on Winston ...
The SAF is a blowback-operated select-fire submachine gun, firing from a closed bolt. It is based on the Swiss SIG SG 540 assault rifle which was produced under license in Chile in the 1980s. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] The design is a shortened version of the SIG 540 rifle, but the rifle's rotating bolt has been replaced with a simple blowback bolt.
The SAX-200 Xiuhcóatl (SAX is an acronym for "Subametralladora Automática Xiuhcóatl" or Xiuhcoatl Automatic Submachine-gun) is a 5.56×45mm NATO carbine for exclusive use by the Mexican Army and Air Force developed by the Centro de Investigación Aplicada y Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Industria Militar and produced by Dirección General de Industria Militar.
The Militant served with the British Army and some other armies in most parts of the world. It was intended as an improved artillery tractor, but after the Second World War, the development of large artillery pieces was gradually dropped in favour of more effective rockets and missiles, making this role largely redundant during the Militant's service life.
To produce the Oerlikon guns, a group of retired Navy admirals created a new arms manufacturing company, the Dai Nihon Heiki KK. In 1939 this started producing a Japanese version of the FF, initially known as the Type E (because the Japanese transliteration of Oerlikon was Erikon ) but from late 1939 onwards formally known as the Type 99 Mark 1.
Early guns were partially wire-wound, but later guns dispensed with the wire winding. The guns were breech loaded with two cloth bags of smokeless powder. [2] Third year type refers to the Welin breech block on this gun. Breech block design began in 1914 AD, the third year of the TaishÅ period. This breech block design was also used on ...