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- A quick-firing or rapid-firing gun is an artillery piece, typically a gun or howitzer, that has several characteristics which taken together mean the...9 KB (1,181 words) - 16:19, 19 May 2024
A gun is a device designed to propel a projectile using pressure or explosive force. The projectiles are typically solid, but can also be pressurized liquid...47 KB (5,731 words) - 16:03, 19 April 2024
Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) are analogue fire-control systems that were used aboard naval warships prior to modern electronic computerized systems...78 KB (10,711 words) - 17:59, 24 February 2024
Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns to deliver sustained fire for twelve hours. Using 100 barrels, they fired a million rounds without...55 KB (6,304 words) - 04:02, 16 May 2024
A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic, rifled auto-loading firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges. Other automatic firearms...74 KB (9,159 words) - 00:07, 22 May 2024
The Gatling gun is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling. It is an early machine gun and a forerunner of the...37 KB (4,090 words) - 20:48, 25 April 2024
A gun salute or cannon salute is the use of a piece of artillery to fire shots, often 21 in number (21-gun salute), with the aim of marking an honor or...8 KB (1,125 words) - 00:27, 17 April 2024
A submachine gun (SMG) is a magazine-fed automatic carbine designed to fire handgun cartridges. The term "submachine gun" was coined by John T. Thompson...47 KB (6,231 words) - 14:17, 25 May 2024
States standard 5"/51 low-angle gun and 5"/25 anti-aircraft gun. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 5 inches (127 mm)...59 KB (7,524 words) - 14:52, 18 May 2024
A 21-gun salute is the most commonly recognized of the customary gun salutes that are performed by the firing of cannons or artillery as a military honor...30 KB (2,428 words) - 02:47, 18 May 2024- Celebratory gunfire (redirect from Firing a gun into the air)firing go unreported. In the United States, crime classifications vary from a misdemeanor to a felony in different states: In Arizona, firing a gun into...41 KB (4,313 words) - 14:25, 15 May 2024
The 2-pounder gun, officially the QF 2-pounder (QF denoting "quick firing") and universally known as the pom-pom, was a 40 mm (1.6 in) British autocannon...22 KB (2,730 words) - 04:06, 18 May 2024
machine gun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated (Vickers G.O.) or Gun, Machine, Vickers G.O. .303-inch in British service, was a rapid-firing machine gun developed...9 KB (1,068 words) - 11:56, 28 May 2024- Top Gun: Fire at Will is a video game developed and published by Spectrum HoloByte for DOS, Windows, PlayStation, and Mac OS. It is a licensed game in...7 KB (613 words) - 21:07, 15 October 2023
Synchronization gear (redirect from Synchronised gun)gun, to be aimed at the target. There were many practical problems, mostly arising from the inherently imprecise nature of an automatic gun's firing,...74 KB (10,221 words) - 00:16, 3 June 2024
The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States...56 KB (6,582 words) - 01:38, 23 May 2024
gun (also known as the "Tommy gun", "Chicago typewriter", "trench sweeper", or "trench broom") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun,...96 KB (10,750 words) - 01:57, 1 June 2024
over a minute to exhaust those rounds at maximum fire rate. For sustained use, the gun mount would be occupied by a six-person crew (gun captain, panel...19 KB (1,709 words) - 01:03, 31 May 2024
operated by Jardine Matheson, the gun is fired every day at noon and has become a tourist attraction. The Noonday Gun is located on the waterfront of the...7 KB (721 words) - 03:39, 27 April 2024
A gun turret (or simply turret) is a mounting platform from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility and ability to turn and aim...53 KB (6,931 words) - 05:22, 20 April 2024
- fire the starting gun (third-person singular simple present fires the starting gun, present participle firing the starting gun, simple past and past participle
- generically called “pompoms,” fire a light artillery projectile, and are considered by many artillery experts as “the gun of the future.” The medium type
- A firearm is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding
- A Gauss Gun or Coil Gun is a gun that works by using a coil of wire to generate an electromagnetic field used to laterally accelerate a metallic projectile;