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  • Thumbnail for Operation Aquatint
    to withdraw once again under increasingly heavy mortar and machine gun fire. Unable to locate any survivors, it recrossed the German minefield and arrived...
    17 KB (2,105 words) - 09:44, 29 February 2024
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    unpopular with other troops), so changed positions frequently. Soon the forces were adding various machine-gun based weapons mounted on poles. These short-range...
    98 KB (13,254 words) - 22:18, 18 May 2024
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    American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted by the U.S. Army on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. The M3 was chambered...
    51 KB (6,046 words) - 08:09, 26 May 2024
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    ARTHUR (category Weapon locating radar)
    projectiles in flight. The original ARTHUR Mod A can locate guns at 15–20 km and 120 mm mortars at 30–35 km with a circular error probable of 0.45% of range...
    14 KB (1,203 words) - 10:59, 1 February 2024
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    The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States government and operated...
    178 KB (18,503 words) - 05:53, 25 May 2024
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    uses include locating wildlife and locating the shooting position of a firearm. Acoustic source localization is the task of locating a sound source given...
    19 KB (2,234 words) - 17:06, 8 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alvin York
    received the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine gun nest, gathering 35 machine guns, killing at least 25 enemy soldiers and capturing...
    78 KB (8,810 words) - 23:23, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for M1 Abrams
    gunner can fire the main gun. Additionally, the Commander's Independent Thermal Viewer (CITV) on the M1A2 can be used to locate targets and pass them on...
    202 KB (21,386 words) - 05:09, 24 May 2024
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    Secondary armament consists of a QJC-88 12.7 mm machine gun on the commander's cupola and a coaxial 7.62 mm MG. The 12.7 mm machine gun has an elevation of -4...
    27 KB (2,753 words) - 16:14, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aviation in World War I
    tractor configuration design. This provided an optimal machine gun position, from which the gun could be fired directly forward without an obstructing...
    64 KB (7,800 words) - 14:38, 17 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for 15th (Imperial Service) Cavalry Brigade
    Carmel charged a Turkish position at Karmelheim, capturing a 6-inch naval gun, two mountain artillery guns, two machine-guns and seventy-eight prisoners...
    51 KB (6,615 words) - 07:24, 10 February 2024
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    Railgun (redirect from Rail Gun)
    A railgun or rail gun is a linear motor device, typically designed as a weapon, that uses electromagnetic force to launch high-velocity projectiles. The...
    110 KB (12,262 words) - 06:47, 11 May 2024
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    fired, the entire gun would be pushed backwards by the force of the shell firing. This meant that the gun had to be re-set into position each time it was...
    15 KB (1,986 words) - 18:34, 14 May 2024
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    A railway gun, also called a railroad gun, is a large artillery piece, often surplus naval artillery, mounted on, transported by, and fired from a specially...
    36 KB (4,652 words) - 22:50, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Coral–Balmoral
    later C Company returned to the area to recover the lost machine-gun only to find the position as they had left it; strewn with dead bodies and caved-in...
    95 KB (13,446 words) - 04:26, 12 May 2024
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    and M class. The only design change was to locate the 'X' 4.7-inch mounting in the more logical position with the 20° training blindspot forward. While...
    20 KB (1,580 words) - 04:43, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Craig (Medal of Honor)
    tried to locate and silence that machine gun emplacement. Craig located the enemy position and snaked his way to a point within 35 yards of the gun before...
    5 KB (490 words) - 11:22, 11 February 2024
  • two machine-guns and inflicting many casualties. Notwithstanding a second wound he then climbed out of the trench to fix his position and locate the enemy...
    4 KB (264 words) - 22:43, 1 February 2024
  • action of the firearm—as by a lever, bolt, or pump mechanism—thus avoiding the procedure of locating and manually positioning each new cartridge. Later...
    3 KB (381 words) - 02:06, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Counter-sniper tactics
    choose their firing positions carefully, and often attack from long distances, they are difficult to locate. Gunfire locators have been developed to...
    9 KB (1,226 words) - 14:24, 19 October 2023
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