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The Portuguese, who conducted much fighting aboard ships and rivercraft, valued a more compact gun, and thus this approach became popular. [31]: 41 [32] Malay gun founders, regarded as at the same level as those of Germany, quickly adapted these new firearms and birthed a new type of arquebus, the istinggar. [33]: 385
Early modern warfare is the era of warfare during early modern period following medieval warfare.It is associated with the start of the widespread use of gunpowder and the development of suitable weapons to use the explosive, including artillery and firearms; for this reason the era is also referred to as the age of gunpowder warfare (a concept introduced by Michael Roberts in the 1950s).
The evolution of German military rifles is a history of common and diverse paths followed by the separate German states, until the mid-19th century when Prussia emerged as the dominant state within Germany and the nation was unified. This article discusses rifled shoulder arms developed in or for the military of the states that later became ...
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The invention of gunpowder weapons replaced only catapults and onagers; the change was slow. Buying guns in those days was a costly affair: the cost of one gun was the equivalent of two months' pay for a skilled artisan. [53] By 1450, inventors improved the make of the gun and introduced the matchlock gun. Though inventors came with new ...
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (2009) Hooton, Tim. The Luftwaffe: A Complete History 1933–45 (2010) Kelly, Patrick J. Tirpitz and the Imperial German Navy (2011) excerpt and text search; Kitchen, Martin. A Military History of Germany: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day (1976)
But in the plunging vortex of a culture war, protecting guns became a patriotic necessity. A National Rifle Association that frowned upon the AR-15 when it appeared at gun shows in the 1980s now ...
A Kriegsspiel session in progress.. Kriegsspiel [a] is a genre of wargaming developed by the Prussian Army in the 19th century to teach battlefield tactics to officers. The word Kriegsspiel literally means "wargame" in German, but in the context of the English language it refers specifically to the wargames developed by the Prussian army in the 19th century.