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The sword breaks while Beowulf fights the dragon at the end of the epic. [46] Refil Old Norse: Refill: Perhaps meaning "grater" or "strip". [47] A sword belonging to Regin in Skáldskaparmál. [48] He owns it just before Fafnir turns into a dragon, and flees with it. [48] Rose Middle High German: Rôse: MHG rôse ("rose"), indicating "the most ...
4 × 2 on the turret (all aiming frontwards, 2 × 2 on the left side of the turret, 1 × 2 on the front right, 1 × 2 on the rear right) 2 × 3 (at the rear of the vehicle, aiming backwards) VBTP-MR Guarani: VBCI Guarani (Iveco, Usiminas and Villares ) Italy Brazil. Brazilian Army [140] This is an amphibious IFV.
One characteristic common to all the German recoilless guns, was that they used ordinary shells, albeit with a different cartridge to cater to the unique issues involved in the recoilless principles. This gun used HE shells from the 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz (Mountain Gun) 36 and the anti-tank shell of the 7.5 cm Feldkanone 16, neuer Art (Field ...
Urnes-style runestone U 887, Skillsta, Sweden, showing a runic dragon and a bipedal winged dragon.. Worms, wurms or wyrms (Old English: wyrm, Old Norse: ormʀ, Old High German: wurm), meaning serpent, are archaic terms for dragons (Old English: dracan, Old Norse: dreki, Old High German: trahho) in the wider Germanic mythology and folklore, in which they are often portrayed as large venomous ...
The TM 170 was selected by the German Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz) and state police forces to replace the old MOWAG MR 8 series of APCs, designated the SW1 and SW2. [3] The TM 170 was designated the SW4 ( Sonderwagen 4 for Special Vehicle 4), the SW3 being the armoured version of the Mercedes-Benz 4 × 4 light vehicle. [ 3 ]
The Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 Drache (English: Dragon [1]) was a helicopter developed by Germany during World War II. A single 750-kilowatt (1,010 hp) Bramo 323 radial engine powered two three-bladed 11.9-metre (39 ft) rotors mounted on twin booms on either side of the 12.2-metre-long (40 ft) cylindrical fuselage.
French Tanks of World War II (1): Infantry and Battle Tanks. New Vanguard 209. London: Osprey Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781782003892. Zaloga, Steven J. (2006). German Panzers 1914–18. New Vanguard. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 9781472801760.
Rear of 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz 36 at the War Museum in Narvik, Norway. The 7.5 cm GebG 36 was designed by Rheinmetall to meet an Army requirement for a 7.5 cm howitzer to serve in the mountain divisions (Gebirgs Divisionen) and replace the World War I-era mountain guns still in service such as the Austro-Hungarian 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone 15.