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Casemate-mounted 5"/50 caliber gun on the USS North Dakota. A casemate is an armoured structure consisting of a static primary surface incorporating a limited-traverse gun mount: typically, this takes the form of either a gun mounted through a fixed armour plate (typically seen on tank destroyers and assault guns) or a mount consisting of a partial cylinder of armour "sandwiched" between ...
A rifle on display. Chekhov's gun (or Chekhov's rifle; Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a narrative principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary and irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a writer features a gun in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as it being fired some time later ...
A rail system mounted on top of a SIG SG 550 A dovetail rail on a rifle receiver for mounting a sight. A rail integration system (RIS; also called a rail accessory system (RAS), rail interface system, rail system, mount, base, gun rail, or simply a rail [1]) is a generic term for any standardized attachment system for mounting firearm accessories via bar-like straight brackets (i.e. "rails ...
Casemate-mounted 5"/50 caliber gun on USS North Dakota The first battleships to carry them were the British Royal Sovereign class laid down in 1889. They were adopted as a result of live-firing trials against HMS Resistance in 1888. [ 33 ]
A Kongsberg/Thales Protector M151 with an M2 heavy machine gun on a M1126 Stryker The operator screen of a RWS installed on U.S. Army Stryker A heavy FLW 200 made by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann for the German Army A light remote weapon system made by OTO Melara Iberica A Sea Rogue fitted with a 12.7 mm machine gun mounted on a Valour class frigate of the South African Navy
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The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 19th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Essentially, it was a scaled-up version of the army's standard infantry musket , operating under the same principles, but with a bore of up to one-inch (25.4 mm) calibre .
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