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A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices. [1][2]
The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder which occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin.The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public both within the Main Building tower and from the tower's observation deck.
A ranged weapon[dubious – discuss] is any weapon that can engage targets beyond hand-to-hand distance, i.e. at distances greater than the physical reach of the user holding the weapon itself. The act of using such a weapon is also known as shooting. It is sometimes also called projectile weapon or missile weapon because it typically works by ...
A three-time first-team All-American and four-time Women’s College World Series all-tournament team (including 2018-19), she had a 40-game hitting streak and 121 career home runs during an ...
The C14 Timberwolf MRSWS (Medium Range Sniper Weapon System) is a bolt-action sniper rifle built by the Canadian arms company PGW Defence Technologies Inc. In 2005 they won the contract to supply the Canadian Forces Land Command with the C14 Timberwolf MRSWS for $4.5 million. [3][4] The military version of the rifle, which is being used to ...
Smoothbore artillery refers to weapons that are not rifled. At the time of the Civil War, metallurgy and other supporting technologies had just recently evolved to a point allowing the large scale production of rifled field artillery. As such, many smoothbore weapons were still in use and production even at the end of the war.
AGM-158C LRASM. The AGM-158C LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) is a stealth air launch anti-ship cruise missile developed for the United States Air Force and United States Navy by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). [7] Derived from the AGM-158B JASSM-ER, the LRASM was intended to pioneer more sophisticated autonomous ...
Weapons that Demolition Ranch has tested and that were mentioned in the media include a golf ball cannon, [7] a double-barreled AR rifle, [8] and custom shotgun shells. [9] In addition, Demolition Ranch has videos of entertaining firearms-related activities such as shooting at an armored car's door, [ 10 ] microwaving a live grenade, [ 11 ] and ...