Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A stainless steel development of the Smith & Wesson Model 36 Chief's Special revolver, the Model 60 has a swing-out cylinder, and features an exposed hammer. It has been in production since 1965, and was the first regular production all stainless steel firearm made. [1]
The idea of a flechette-firing individual weapon started in earnest during the Army's Project SALVO.SALVO had earlier concluded that a small weapon with a high rate of fire would be considerably deadlier than the large "full power" weapons being developed in the 1950s, and followed several lines of investigation to find the best way to provide high firing rates.
Superior Air Parts, Inc. is a Chinese-owned manufacturer of aviation piston engine replacement parts, headquartered in Coppell, Texas, United States. The company has been owned by Superior Aviation Beijing since 2010.
G isele Pelicot, the 72-year-old woman at the center of the horrifying rape trial that ended on Thursday with the conviction of 51 men, including her husband, has rightly been hailed as a hero ...
Data from Skyways General characteristics Crew: 1 Capacity: 4 Length: 31 ft 9 in (9.68 m) Upper wingspan: 55 ft 6 in (16.92 m) Gross weight: 5,050 lb (2,291 kg) Powerplant: 2 × Aeromarine U-8D, 250 hp (190 kW) each Performance Maximum speed: 91 kn (105 mph, 169 km/h) Minimum control speed: 43 kn (50 mph, 80 km/h) Rate of climb: 650 ft/min (3.3 m/s) References ^ E. R. Johnson. American flying ...
The M224 60 mm Lightweight Company Mortar System (LWCMS) is a smoothbore, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire mortar used for close-in support of ground troops. It was deployed extensively in the War in Afghanistan by the United States military .
The Type 60 was superseded by the Type 73 armored personnel carrier from 1974, but only 225 Type 73s were built, and the Type 60 continued in large scale use until the 2000s. [8] Roles included training, with several Type 60s being modified to visually resemble the Soviet BMD-1 airborne infantry fighting vehicles .
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick to helm NASA, a private astronaut and close ally of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is a central figure of a speedy, commercial-focused side of the space industry who ...