enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of British weapon L numbers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_weapon_L...

    L39A1 7.62mm Rifle (7.62mm NATO conversion of Rifle No. 4, Marks 1/2 and 2, used for target rifle competition) [41] [168] L41 L41A1/A2 0.22 inch Calibre 5.56mm Rifle Conversion Kit (.22 inch conversion kit for SA80-pattern weapons; also referred to as the L41A1/A2 .22 inch Calibre SA 80 5.56mm Rifle and LSW Conversion Kit) [169] [116]

  3. Beretta BM 59 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta_BM_59

    BM59 Mark I: had a wooden stock with a semi-pistol grip stock. BM59 Mark II: had a wooden stock with pistol grip to achieve a better control during full-auto fire; BM59 Mark III: or Ital TA (also known as the Truppe Alpine), was a variant with a pistol grip and a metal folding buttstock, that was intended for mountain troops. The BM59 Para was ...

  4. Martini–Henry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martini–Henry

    A Greener GP Mark I and Mark II, note the difference in finish, safety lever, and takedown screw. Greener also used the Martini action for the GP ("General Purpose") single-barreled shotgun firing standard 12-bore 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 or 2 + 3 ⁄ 4-inch ammunition, which was a staple for gamekeepers and rough shooters in Britain.

  5. .303 British - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.303_British

    The Mark VII loading used a 174 gr (11.28 g) pointed bullet with a flat-base. The .303 British Mark VII cartridge was loaded with 37 gr (2.40 g) of Cordite MDT 5-2 (cordite MD pressed into tubes) and had a muzzle velocity of 2,440 ft/s (744 m/s) and a maximum range of approximately 3,000 yd (2,700 m).

  6. .577/450 Martini–Henry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.577/450_Martini–Henry

    The Mark II had a tendency to split at the base, so the Cartridge S.A. Ball Martini Henry Rifle Rolled Case Mark III was developed which had two layers of .004 in brass overlapped by .5 in (13 mm) with a .004 in brass strengthening strip with a small sight hole punched in the outer coil as a visual check that the strip was correctly placed and ...

  7. Ultimax 100 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimax_100

    The weapon is produced by CIS (presently STK—Singapore Technologies Kinetics), initially in the Mark 1 version, later—the Mark 2, and currently, in the Mark 3 and Mark 4 variant. The Ultimax 100 (also called the U 100 ) is used in significant numbers by the armed forces of Singapore, Croatia and the Philippines . [ 1 ]

  8. Gun harmonisation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_harmonisation

    Fire from the eight machine guns of a Hawker Hurricane is shown converging to a point, then diverging. (Drawing not to scale.) In aerial gunnery, gun harmonisation, convergence pattern, convergence zone, convergence point or bore-sight point refers to the aiming of fixed guns or cannon carried in the wings of a fighter aircraft.

  9. Farquhar–Hill rifle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farquhar–Hill_rifle

    Some models of the rifle have a bayonet lug for an experimental shortened version of the bayonet pattern 1907 of the Lee-Enfield Mark III rifle. The Farquhar-Hill was first patented in the UK in 1908 and in the United States in 1909. The key feature was an intermediate 'action' spring which stored recoil energy.