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Drawing of PG-9 HEAT projectile The 2A28 'Grom' smoothbore gun fires the same projectiles as the SPG-9 infantry light recoilless gun, but with a smaller propellant charge. Before 1974, the ammunition only consisted of high explosive anti-tank ( HEAT ) rounds; the PG-15V HEAT fixed fin-stabilized rocket-assisted round.
The assembly drawing gives the drawing numbers of the subsequent detailed components, quantities required, construction materials and possibly 3D images that can be used to locate individual items. Although mostly consisting of pictographic representations, abbreviations and symbols are used for brevity and additional textual explanations may ...
Drawings from patent 4,619,184 showing the Desert Eagle's gas-operated mechanism Interchangeable barrels for a Desert Eagle Mark I Desert Eagle, Mark XIX in .44 Magnum The design for the Desert Eagle was initiated by Bernard C. White of Magnum Research and Arnolds Streinbergs of Riga Arms Institute, who filed a US patent application for a ...
Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. Technical drawing is essential for communicating ideas in industry and engineering .
The object of fast draw as a combative sport is to quickly draw one's pistol and fire with the most accuracy. The sport has been inspired by accounts of duels and gunfights which incorporated it during the Wild West, such as the Hickok–Tutt shootout, Short–Courtright duel, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Long Branch Saloon gunfight and others, which in turn inspired the gunfights seen in ...
This is an extensive list of small arms—including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifles and any other variants.
A gun is a device designed to propel a projectile using pressure or explosive force. [1] [2] The projectiles are typically solid, but can also be pressurized liquid ...
Patent drawing for R. J. Gatling's "battery gun", 9 May 1865. The Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor Richard J. Gatling in 1861 and patented on November 4, 1862. [24] [21] Gatling wrote that he created it to reduce the size of armies and so reduce the number of deaths by combat and disease. [25]