The field of fire of a weapon (or group of weapons) is the area around it that can easily and effectively be reached by gunfire. The term field of fire […]
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Type 100 submachine gun
The Type 100 submachine gun (一〇〇式機関短銃 Hyaku-shiki kikan-tanjū) was a Japanese submachine gun used during World War II and the only submachine gun produced by Japan in any quantity. It […]
Winchester Model 1887/1901
The Winchester Model 1887 and Winchester Model 1901 were lever-action shotguns originally designed by famed American gun designer John Browning and produced by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company during the […]
Acorn Network Computer
The Acorn Network Computer was a network computer designed and manufactured by Acorn Computers Ltd. It was the implementation of the Network Computer Reference Profile that Oracle Corporation commissioned Acorn […]
Heckler & Koch UCP
The Heckler & Koch Universal Combat Pistol (HK UCP) a double action semi-automatic handgun also known as the HK P46 was developed under commission for the German Bundeswehr.The concept for […]
Acorn Business Computer
The Acorn Business Computer (ABC) was a series of microcomputers announced at the end of 1983 by the British company Acorn Computers. The series of eight computers was aimed at […]
Neubaufahrzeug
The German Neubaufahrzeug series of tank prototypes were a first attempt to create a heavy tank for the Wehrmacht after Adolf Hitler had come to power. Multi-turreted heavy and slow […]
Saiga-12
The Saiga-12 is a 12-gauge shotgun available in a wide range of configurations visually patterned after the Kalashnikov series of assault rifles. Like the Kalashnikov rifle variants it is a […]
M103 heavy tank
The Heavy Tank M103 served the United States Army and the US Marines during the Cold War. Until the development of the M1 Abrams in the mid-1970s it was the […]
Škorpion vz. 61
The Škorpion vz. 61 is a Czechoslovak 7.65 mm submachine gun developed in 1959 by Miroslav Rybář (1924–1970) and produced under the official designation Samopal vzor 61 (submachine gun model […]