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The SEAL Recon Rifle (nicknamed the "Sniper M4" [2] and "Recce" [3]) is an American designated marksman rifle and assault rifle used by the United States Navy SEALs.Essentially a heavily modified M16 rifle, it is intended to provide SEAL snipers and designated marksmen with a versatile, accurate, lightweight, and relatively compact weapon chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO.
armament. 1 × 0.50 caliber (12.7 mm) M2HB heavy machine gun. 1 × 7.62 mm (.308 in) M240B machine gun. Engine. diesel. Suspension. Hydropneumatic. The General Dynamics Griffin is a series of armored fighting vehicles under development by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) for the United States Army. [4] The Griffin is a derivative of ASCOD ...
Produced. 1942–48. Variants. Seafire, Spiteful, Seafang. The Rolls-Royce Griffon engine was designed in answer to Royal Navy specifications for an engine capable of generating good power at low altitudes. Concepts for adapting the Spitfire to take the new engine had begun as far back as October 1939; Joseph Smith felt that "The good big 'un ...
The Ajax is a development of the ASCOD armoured fighting vehicles used by the Spanish Armed Forces and Austrian Armed Forces. The vehicles were originally developed by Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug and Santa Bárbara Sistemas in the early 1990s. Both companies were purchased by General Dynamics in the early 2000s.
The M10 Booker, a light tank based on the Griffin II platform, derived from the ASCOD 2, was selected in June 2022 as the winner of the US Army's Mobile Protected Firepower program. 96 M10 for $1.14 billion The initial contract is for 96 vehicles with first delivery by the end of 2023. The first units are expected to be equipped with it by ...
The Jaguar's 40 mm gun is thus capable of piercing enemy vehicle armour (the tungsten projectile of the APFSDS-T is notably able to penetrate more than 140 mm of RHA at 1.5 km), of breaching more than 210 mm of double-reinforced concrete or delivering an air-bursting detonation above a target at a range of 60 m to 2.5 km, forming a volley of ...
Crossing capacities are of the order of 1.2 m for a ford, 50 cm for a step and 1 m for a ditch. [ 23 ] The Griffon is designed to offer STANAG 4569 Level 4 armour protection as standard, being capable of withstanding 14.5 mm armour-piercing ammunition, 155 mm artillery shell splinters, IEDs and mine blasts, thus significantly improving the ...
The F-16A (single seat) and F-16B (two seat) were initially equipped with the Westinghouse AN/APG-66 pulse-doppler radar, Pratt & Whitney F100 -PW-200 turbofan, rated at 14,670 lbf (64.9 kN) and 23,830 lbf (106.0 kN) with afterburner. The USAF bought 375 F-16As and 125 F-16Bs, with delivery completed in March 1985.