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Award St. George's weapon. In the Tsardom of Moscow, the custom of awarding soldiers with weapons was already in place in the mid-17th century.The earliest known award dates back to 1642, when Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich granted one of his confidants an award sabre with the inscription: "The Sovereign, Tsar and Grand Duke, Mikhail Fyodorovich has granted this sabre to the steward Bogdan Khitrovo."
A headstamp is the marking on the bottom of a cartridge case designed for a firearm. It usually tells who manufactured the case. Military headstamps usually have only the year of manufacture . The left cartridge's headstamp says "FC 223 REM" which means that it was made by Federal Cartridge Co. and it is in the caliber .223 Remington. The ...
Bullet mass/type. Velocity. Energy. 65 gr (4 g) (smokeless) 1,180 ft/s (360 m/s) 208 ft⋅lbf (282 J) Source (s): Barnes & Amber 1972. The .25 Stevens / 6.4x28mmRF was an American rimfire rifle cartridge. [1] To differentiate from the related .25 Stevens Short it is sometimes also referred to as .25 Stevens Long.
The standard .25-35 Winchester load is about three times as powerful in muzzle energy as the .25-20 Winchester, a cartridge of similar bore size earlier introduced by Winchester. [3] The .25-35 was valued for its speed, trajectory, and lower recoil. [4] It was a popular round in the Winchester Model 1885 High Wall single-shot rifle.
The Century Co: 1918, p. 230-1. The .25 Remington (also known as the .25 Remington Auto-Loading) is an American rifle cartridge. A rimless, smokeless powder design, this cartridge was considered to be very accurate by period firearm experts and suitable for game up to deer and black bear. [1] It was based on the .30 Remington cartridge.
The Heckler & Koch G11 is a non-production prototype assault rifle developed from the late 1960s–1980s by Gesellschaft für Hülsenlose Gewehrsysteme (GSHG) (German for "Association for Caseless Rifle Systems"), a conglomeration of companies headed by firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch (mechanical engineering and weapon design), Dynamit Nobel (propellant composition and projectile design ...
The SKS (Russian: Самозарядный карабин системы Симонова, romanized:Samozaryadny karabin sistemy Simonova, lit. 'self-loading carbine of the Simonov system') is a semi-automatic rifle designed by Soviet small arms designer Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov in 1945. The SKS was first produced in the Soviet Union but was ...
SR-25. The SR-25 (Stoner Rifle-25) [1] is a designated marksman rifle and semi-automatic sniper rifle designed by Eugene Stoner and manufactured by Knight's Armament Company. [1] The SR-25 uses a rotating bolt and a direct impingement gas system. It is loosely based on Stoner's AR-10, rebuilt in its original 7.62×51mm NATO caliber.