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Sights. Iron sights / OIP 4x Telescopic sight on Belgium Sniper rifle. The Fabrique Nationale Model 1949 (often referred to as the FN-49, SAFN, or AFN ( automatic rifle version) is an autoloading battle rifle designed by Belgian small arms designer Dieudonné Saive in 1947. It was adopted by the militaries of Argentina, Belgium, the Belgian ...
Submachine guns PPSh-41 [1] 7.62×25mm: Submachine gun Soviet Union: MAB 38 [1] 9×19mm: Submachine gun Kingdom of Italy: Uzi [1] 9×19mm: Submachine gun Israel: Rifles Vz. 52 [2] 7.62×45mm: Semi-automatic rifle Czechoslovak Socialist Republic: SKS [citation needed] 7.62×39mm: Semi-automatic rifle Soviet Union: AKM [citation needed] 7.62× ...
Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun [15] M1917 Browning machine gun [16] Submachine guns. Bergmann MP 34/I [17] OVP 1918 (Bought from Italy before the war) [18]
The vz. 52 is a shoulder-fired semi-automatic rifle with a tilting- bolt locking mechanism powered by an annular short-stroke gas piston system. The bolt is locked by two lugs that recess into slots machined into the receiver. However, unlike most vertically-locking breech mechanism, the rifle's bolt has the unusual feature of tipping the bolt ...
The Tiger class were a class of three British warships of the 20th century and the last all-gun cruisers of the Royal Navy.Construction of three Minotaur-class cruisers (under the names Blake, Defence and Bellerophon) began during World War II but, due to post-war austerity, the Korean War and focus on the Royal Air Force over the surface fleet, the hulls remained unfinished.
The Remington Rolling Block was developed from the 1863 pattern .50 calibre split breech carbine issued to the US Cavalry during the American Civil War. This earlier weapon was designed by Joseph Rider and Leonard Geiger to fire the same cartridges as the Spencer carbine. [ 10] The split breech rifle lacked a hammer spur because it self-cocked ...
HMS Blake (C99) HMS. Blake. (C99) HMS Blake was a light cruiser of the Tiger class of the British Royal Navy, the last (traditional) Royal Navy gun-armed cruiser of the 20th century. She was named after Robert Blake, a 17th-century admiral who was the "Father of the Royal Navy".
The Fusil Modèle 1874 or Gras was the French Army 's primary service rifle from 1874 to 1886. Designed by Colonel Basile Gras, the Gras was a metallic cartridge adaptation of the single-shot, breech-loading, black powder Chassepot rifle. It was developed from 1872 to 1874 as a response to the German adoption of the Mauser Model 1871 metallic ...