The Rampuri is an Indian gravity knife of formidable reputation having a single-edged blade roughly 9 to 12 inches long. Usually it is the switchblade type but there are step-lock […]
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Remington Model 788
The Remington 788 is a bolt-action centerfire rifle that was made by Remington Arms from 1967 to 1983. It was marketed as an inexpensive yet accurate hunting rifle to compete […]
TRADIC
The TRADIC (for TRAnsistor DIgital Computer or TRansistorized Airborne DIgital Computer) was the first transistorized computer in the USA completed in 1954.The computer was built by Jean Howard Felker of […]
KIS (weapon)
Kis was the name of a Polish machine pistol from the time of the Second World War. It was designed and manufactured by engineers in Jan Piwnik’s Ponury (Grim) guerrilla […]
9M113 Konkurs
The 9M113 Konkurs (Russian: 9М113 «Конкурс»; English: Contest) is a SACLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile of the Soviet Union. 9M113 is the GRAU designation of the missile. Its NATO reporting name […]
Kropatschek
A Kropatschek is any variant of a rifle designed by Alfred von Kropatschek. Kropatschek’s rifles used an tubular magazine (constructed of nickel-plated steel) of his design of the same type […]
9K111 Fagot
The 9K111 Fagot (Russian: 9K111 «Фагот»; English meaning of the word: bassoon) is a SACLOS wire-guided anti-tank missile system of the Soviet Union. 9M111 is the GRAU designation of the […]
XSM-73 Goose
The Fairchild SM-73 (originally Bull Goose) was a sub-sonic jet-powered ground-launched Decoy Cruise missile.
RG-42
The Soviet RG-42 was a fragmentation grenade originally introduced during World War II as an emergency measure continuing in use with the USSR and its Warsaw Pact allies in the […]
RG-41
The Soviet RG-41 was a fragmentation grenade developed during World War II. It was in production for only short time from 1941 to 1942 before being replaced by RG-42.It contained […]