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James Puckle (1667–1724), English inventor, lawyer and writer, patented the Puckle gun in 1718. The Puckle gun is a tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock weapon fitted with a manually operated [5] revolving cylinder; Puckle advertised its main application as an anti-boarding gun for use on ships. The barrel was 3 feet (0.91 m) long with a ...
Vietnam-era rifles used by the US military and allies. From top to bottom: M14, MAS 36, M16 (30 round magazine), AR-10, M16 (20 round magazine), M21, L1A1, M40, MAS 49 The Vietnam War involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Soviet ...
James Puckle (1667–1724) was an English inventor, lawyer and writer from London chiefly remembered for his invention of the Defence Gun, better known as the Puckle gun, a multi-shot gun mounted on a stand capable of (depending on which version) firing up to nine rounds per minute.
Used by PAVN and Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. Type 67: General-purpose machine gun: 7.62×54mmR China: Used by PAVN and Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. DShK: Heavy machine gun: 12.7×108mm Soviet Union Vietnam: Mounted on T-55 tanks. Currently being phased out by the NSV.
The Vietnam People's Navy has itself built six Tarantul-class corvettes (Molniya class) with Russian supervision and has designed and built the first warships of the TT-400TP gunboat class. [94] Vietnam also purchased two Pohang-class corvettes were purchased from South Korea, one in 2017 and
An early precursor was the Puckle gun of 1718, a large flintlock revolver gun, manually operated. The design idea was impractical, far ahead of what 18th century technology could achieve. During the 19th century, Elisha Collier and later Samuel Colt used the revolver action to revolutionize handguns.
Puckle gun (1718) Pepper-box (1739) Harmonica gun (1742) Fafting/Fasting rifle: In 1774 a rifle was invented by a Norwegian or Danish colonel by the name of Fafting or Fasting capable of firing 18 to 20 shots a minute and being used as an ordinary rifle by taking off a spring-loaded container attached to the gun's lock.
The Đại Việt gun can penetrate several layers of iron armor and can kill from 2 to 5 people with one single bullet while not emitting any loud sounds when fired. A Qing-era record, 南越筆記 (Nányuè bǐjì) linked the Vietnam arquebus with Java arquebus. [10] [2] [11] 17th century Vietnamese wood relief, showing a kneeling arquebusier.