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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
- 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
- "proto-guns" Joseph Needham defined a type of firearm known as the "eruptor," which he described as a cross between a fire lance and a gun, as a "proto-gun"...47 KB (5,731 words) - 16:03, 19 April 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) - 16:19, 5 June 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...75 KB (9,242 words) - 19:46, 4 June 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Celebratory gunfire (redirect from Firing a gun into the air)an inadvertent result of guns being fired during celebrations for Orthodox Christmas. January 1, 2005: A stray bullet hit a young girl during New Year...41 KB (4,314 words) - 01:26, 4 June 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Thompson submachine gun (also known as the "Tommy gun", "Chicago typewriter") is a blowback-operated, selective-fire submachine gun, invented and developed...96 KB (10,745 words) - 03:02, 6 June 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
- 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
- exhaust those rounds at maximum fire rate. For sustained use, the gun mount would be occupied by a six-person crew (gun captain, panel operator, and four...19 KB (1,709 words) - 01:03, 31 May 2024
- Automatic firearm (redirect from Select fire gun)Machine gun A large group of heavier firearms used for suppressive automatic fire of rifle cartridges, usually attached to a mount or supported by a bipod...10 KB (1,242 words) - 21:42, 18 May 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
- the core of a solenoid, but being loose it leaves the barrel after being fired. Gauss guns come in varied designs, some of which can fire nails or BBs