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The Lee-Metford rifle (a.k.a. Magazine Lee-Metford abbreviated MLM) was a bolt action British army service rifle combining James Paris Lee’s rear-locking bolt system and ten-round magazine with a innovative seven […]

The C1 Ariete is the main battle tank of the Italian Army developed by a consortium formed by Iveco-Fiat and Oto Melara (aka CIO Consorzio Iveco Oto Melara). The chassis […]

The Squad Advanced Marksman Rifle (SAM-R) is a semi-automatic rifle developed by and in service with the United States Marine Corps. It gives Marines the capability to provide precision fire […]

The Brennan torpedo was a torpedo patented by Irish-born Australian inventor Louis Brennan in 1877. It was powered by two contra-rotating propellors that were spun by rapidly pulling out wires […]

The M134 Minigun is a 7.62×51 mm NATO six-barreled machine gun with a high rate of fire (2000 to 6000 rounds per minute). It features Gatling-style rotating barrels with an […]

A time bomb (or timebomb time-bomb) is a bomb whose detonation is triggered by a timer. The use (or attempted use) of time bombs has been for various purposes including […]

The Ak 5 or Automatkarbin 5 (automatic carbine 5 automatic carbine being the Swedish term for assault rifle) is the Swedish version of the FN FNC assault rifle with certain […]

The Gyrojet is a family of unique firearms developed in the 1960s named for the method of gyroscopically stabilizing its projectiles. Rather than inert bullets Gyrojets fire small rockets called […]

The MAS-49 is a French semi-automatic rifle that replaced various bolt action rifles as the French service rifle in 1949. It was designed and manufactured by the government-owned MAS arms […]

The vz. 52 rifle (often incorrectly called the CZ 52) is a self-loading rifle developed shortly after the Second World War in Czechoslovakia. Its full name is 7.62mm Samonabíjecí puška […]