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A barrel bomb is an unguided IED made to be dropped from helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. A lob bomb is a rocket-fired IED. Barrack busters were improvised mortars used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army during The Troubles. Acid packets were used by rioters during the Citizenship Amendment Act protests in India [63]
The cannon barrel is about 3 feet long, mounted on wheels and towed. It is muzzle loaded. An explosive such as ANFO is first dropped into the muzzle and tamped with a wooden stick. The projectile is a re-purposed gas cylinder filled with explosives and shrapnel (the payload). Welded to the payload is about a 2-foot metal tube (the tail) about ...
A barrel roll attack is a military maneuver that improves the attacker's offensive position and prevents the attacker from overshooting. In this maneuver the defender breaks one direction and so the attacker performs a barrel roll in the opposite direction. The attacker pulls back on the stick more than a normal barrel roll, performing a ...
The Ares Incorporated XM274 (originally designated as the medium caliber, antiarmor automatic cannon, MC-AAAC) was an American smoothbore 75mm autocannon designed by Eugene Stoner. [1] It used a rotating breech block with cased telescopic ammunition. It was developed for the HIMAG program, but was later used on a variety of test vehicles. [2]
Squire Boone also constructed a wooden cannon used in the defense of Boonesborough, Kentucky in 1778 Siege of Boonesborough. Wooden cannons were used in Europe on various occasions. Russian Tsar Peter the Great is known to have built several as a childhood pastime.
The cannon could fire solid shot, explosive shells, grapeshot, case shot and "Martins Liquid Iron Shell" (thin walled shells filled with molten iron, intended to serve as heated shot). [13] Although the cannon's barrel bore was 8.12 inches (20.6 cm), both shot and shells were 7.92 inches (20.1 cm) in diameter.
There was a middling cannon known as the "awe-inspiring long range cannon", which added a sight and weighed around 85 kilograms. [37] Larger cannons such as the great general and great divine cannon were also developed and at least 300 of them were being made in 1465. [ 26 ]
A quantity of olive oil and a round shot were left inside in the barrel; With the gun laid horizontally the shot would roll up and down the barrel as the ship caught each wave, effectively lubricating the gun simply through the motion of the ship. [3] Later, the invention of revolving gun turrets meant that all guns were constantly exposed to ...