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The first AC-130A Gunship IIs did away with the MXU-470/A mounts and instead used GAU-2/As, and not only had four 7.62mm GAU-2/A minigun mounts, but added four 20mm M61 Vulcan 6-barrel rotary cannons; this configuration was upgraded two years later in 1969 by removing two each of the GAU-2/As and M61s and adding two 40mm (1.58 in) L/60 Bofors ...
Breech-loading swivel gun with mug-shaped chamber, and wedge to hold it in place. Although breech-loading is often considered a modern innovation which facilitated the loading of cannons, [3] breech-loading swivel guns were invented in the 14th century, [4] and used worldwide from the 16th century onward by numerous countries, many of them non-European.
A cannon is any large tubular firearm designed to fire a heavy projectile over a long distance. They were first used in Europe and China, and were the archetypical form of artillery. Round shot and grapeshot were the early projectiles used in cannon. 18th century cannon projectiles Three different cannon projectiles
The second cannon was found on the battlefield itself and had been fired by the Spanish defenders. “I suspect that the area of the site where that cannon was stored was not overwhelmed by the ...
Mar. 19—Charges against a 30-year-old man accused in a fatal Airway Heights shooting last month have been dropped. Spokane County deputy prosecutor Sharon Hedlund dismissed five second-degree ...
A Big Bang Cannon and its box. The Big-Bang Cannon, also known as the Calcium Cannon, is an American toy cannon first manufactured in the early 20th-century. Numerous consumer fireworks injuries [1] convinced a physics professor at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to patent a "Gas Gun" in 1907, and the manufacturing of Big-Bang Cannons started in 1912, from the Gas Cannon Company.
Feb. 1—A man is dead after nine Spokane police officers reportedly fired their weapons at him when he raised a handgun toward them Wednesday night on the South Hill. Officers responded shortly ...
12.7 mm M2 Browning machine gun mounted on Katlanit RCWS 30mm Mk44 Bushmaster II & M240 machine gun & Spike LR mounted on Czech Pandur II IFV. The Samson Remote Controlled Weapon Station (RCWS), also known as Katlanit (קטלנית in Hebrew: "lethal") is a remote weapon system (RWS) that enables a variety of devices to be operated automatically or by remote control, including 5.56 mm, 7.62 mm ...