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Mark 4 nuclear bomb (category Cold War aerial bombs of the United States)controlled conditions, the purpose of the Mark 4 was to produce an atomic weapon as a practical piece of ordnance. The Mark 4 Mod 0 entered the stockpile...11 KB (1,194 words) - 00:38, 23 May 2024- decade. It is a type of proximity fuze that initiates a detonator in a piece of ordnance such as a land mine, naval mine, depth charge, or shell when the fuse's...2 KB (198 words) - 06:49, 11 February 2024
1373 in reference to the handle of guns. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, a gun could mean "a piece of ordnance usually with high muzzle velocity...47 KB (5,731 words) - 16:03, 19 April 2024
The Ordnance QF 25-pounder, or more simply 25-pounder or 25-pdr, with a calibre of 3.45 inches (87.6 mm), was a piece of field artillery used by British...52 KB (5,881 words) - 04:17, 9 May 2024
movement capable of firing 360 rifle shots a minute in a variety of calibers. In 1792, a French artist known as Renard invented a piece of ordnance that could...74 KB (9,159 words) - 00:07, 22 May 2024
Mons Meg (category Artillery of Belgium)Castle. It was next taken, with other disused ordnance, to the Tower of London in 1754, as a result of the disarming acts against Jacobites aimed at removing...18 KB (2,079 words) - 18:07, 16 May 2024
Bugs Bunny is seen reclining on a piece of ordnance (a blockbuster bomb) idly reading Victory Thru Hare Power (a spoof of the 1942 book). He begins laughing...15 KB (1,991 words) - 10:23, 2 March 2024- Advanced Squad Leader Modules (section West of Alamein)Rulebook, which gives detailed notes and information on each type of vehicle or piece of ordnance. Some modules also contain chapters specific to certain theatres...27 KB (3,985 words) - 12:45, 31 March 2023
Rhodesian Security Forces (redirect from Military of Rhodesia)on leave [in 1969], a new piece of ordnance had arrived. This was a 32Z anti-tank rifle grenade that fitted over the end of a rifle barrel and was propelled...48 KB (3,507 words) - 07:54, 3 May 2024
Mughal weapons (category Military of the Mughal Empire)described as the "largest piece of ordnance in the world." This array of weapons was divided into heavy and light artillery. Possession of mobile field artillery...27 KB (4,015 words) - 11:15, 26 May 2024
shots for each piece of ordnance. The divisions mobilized in Bessarabia were allowed to retain their ammunition needed for the state of war. The demobilized...22 KB (2,150 words) - 06:50, 15 May 2024
towns and villages within the range of a random shot of a piece of ordnance. A great gun was fired to different points of the compass and all the country...5 KB (567 words) - 09:09, 26 February 2024- Mughal artillery (category Military of the Mughal Empire)over 14 ft (4.3 m), once described as the "largest piece of ordnance in the world." This array of weapons was divided into heavy and light artillery....24 KB (2,559 words) - 21:27, 14 April 2024
Cuddalore (redirect from History of Cuddalore)shott of a piece of ordnance".) A great gun was fired to different points of the compass. All the country within its range, including the town of Cuddalore...52 KB (4,947 words) - 18:22, 6 May 2024- fifer; mostly an antiquated term. Field-Strip – To disassemble a piece of ordnance or weapon to the major part groups for routine cleaning or lubricating;...155 KB (18,228 words) - 13:28, 26 May 2024
United States war plans (1945–1950) (category 20th-century military history of the United States)was a more practical piece of ordnance than its predecessor, and its composite uranium-plutonium core made more economical use of the available fissile...58 KB (8,224 words) - 23:40, 10 January 2024
Red Dragon (1595) (category Ships of the British East India Company)landed men were now within a mile of the fort and set up a large piece of ordnance to further bombard the fort. The morning of 9 May, the attack began before...36 KB (4,904 words) - 16:11, 8 March 2024
The Ordnance QF 20 pounder (known as 20 pounder, 20 pdr or simply 20-pr) was a British 84 mm (3.307 inch) tank gun. It was introduced in 1948 and used...11 KB (1,156 words) - 07:39, 8 March 2024
There was a boy of our ship that was shot with a piece of ordnance out off the King's ship - at the departure of Steen Bille, by negligence of the gunner,...45 KB (6,140 words) - 09:52, 31 January 2024
establishment of eighty Mark IVs. The Ordnance QF 95-mm infantry howitzer was a version built as a conventional towed artillery piece. Perhaps in response...7 KB (821 words) - 10:40, 9 March 2024
- addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one), a gun or piece of ordnance. The word, first found about 1400 (there is an indenture of Henry IV.
- guard belonging to the Mir Bandar, or port-master, with a loaded piece of ordnance, is always stationed. Whenever a ship enters the creek, it intimates
- man who rose under Henry VII to become master of the ordnance, armory, and horse, as well as comptroller of the household. In his several roles, Richard