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Designed for the Mosin–Nagant Russian service rifle. Oldest cartridge still in official military use, used in SVD Dragunov with Russia and the PSL rifles with many other countries. 7.63×25mm Mauser: 1893 Germany 1 [13] H [13] 7.62×25mm 1410 [3] 375 [3] 0.532 6 [3] 0.308 [3] 25mm aka 30 Mauser. [3] Based on 7.65×25mm Borchardt.
1915 – New England Westinghouse Company opens for business, first product is Mosin–Nagant rifles for the Russian Czar's army; within two years, the Bolsheviks cancel a previous order of over 1 million rifles after overthrowing the Russian Provisional Government, and facing bankruptcy, Westinghouse is rescued by the American Government when ...
After 2003, the Mauser Karabiner 98k rifle (along with the Mosin–Nagant, the Lee–Enfield and the Yugoslavian M48 Mauser) was encountered in Iraq by US and Allied forces with Iraqi insurgents making use of the Karabiner 98k and other bolt-action rifles alongside more modern infantry weapons like the AK-47 series rifles and the SKS carbine. [62]
As mentioned in the article, the colloquial name “Mosin-Nagant” used in the West is persistent but erroneous, as established in Nagant's legal dispute. Or, to put it simply, monseur Nagant accused Mosin of copying just to get the 100'000 ruble prize. And since Mosin's work was a "secret" military-grade invention, they had to pay Nagant to ...
$100 Series E bond (1944) Series E United States Savings Bonds were government bonds marketed by the United States Department of the Treasury as war bonds during World War II from 1941 to 1945. After the war, they continued to be offered as retail investments until 1980, when they were replaced by other savings bonds .
In Russia, the war was covered by anonymous satirical graphic luboks for sale in markets, recording the war for the domestic audience. Around 300 were made before their creation was banned by the Russian government. Their Japanese equivalents were woodblock prints. These had been common during the Sino-Japanese war a decade earlier and ...
Danish M.1889 carbine. After strenuous tests, Denmark adopted the Krag–Jørgensen rifle on July 3, 1889. The Danish rifle differed in several key areas from the weapons later adopted by the United States and Norway, particularly in its use of a forward (as opposed to downward) hinged magazine door, the use of rimmed ammunition, and the use of an outer steel liner for the barrel.
The Obice da 105/14 modello 17 was a howitzer used by Italy during World War II.The howitzer was designed by Schneider in 1906. [1] It was chosen by the Italian Regio Esercito to serve as their new field gun, but licence production by Ansaldo was slow.