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The Bazooka (/ b ə ˈ z uː k ə /) [8] is a man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon, widely deployed by the United States Army, especially during World War II.Also referred to as the "stovepipe", the innovative Bazooka was among the first generation of rocket-propelled anti-tank weapons used in infantry combat.
Type 51 pistol, a variant of the Chinese Type 54 pistol Type 51, Chinese reverse-engineered copy of US M20 Super Bazooka Type 051 destroyer , Chinese navy destroyer class
The High Standard HDM is a conventional blowback-operated semi-automatic pistol fitted with an integral silencer which decreases its report by more than 20 dB. [4] This pistol design was originally delivered on 20 January 1944, and original contract models were blued with a parkerized (phosphate) finish on the silencer. Follow-on models were ...
The following is a list of ammunition fired by the 125 mm smoothbore gun series used in the T-64, T-72, T-80, M-84, T-90, PT-91, T-14 Armata, and other tanks derived from those designs, as well as the 2A45 Sprut anti-tank gun.
Shoulder-fired missile, shoulder-launched missile or man-portable missile, among other variants, are common slang terms to describe high-caliber shoulder-mounted weapons systems; that is, weapons firing large, heavy projectiles ("missiles"), typically using the backblast principle, which are small enough to be carried by a single person and fired while held on one's shoulder.
In USPSA as of 2014, a value of 165 kgr·ft/s or greater is considered major for all divisions (except production and carry optics where there only is minor scoring), while values below 165 kgr·ft/s are minor. [8] Until a point in the late 1990s, the cut off point for "making major" was 175 kgr·ft/s.
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By 1944 the Americans were using M1 bazooka anti-tank rocket launchers in the Pacific Theater against the Japanese. In response, the Japanese began development of the Type 4 rocket launcher. Unlike the US rocket, that used fins to stabilize it in flight, the Japanese rocket had angled venturis in the base to spin the rocket for stability, in a ...