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  2. RPG-76 Komar - Wikipedia

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    RPG-76 Komar (eng. Mosquito) is a disposable one-shot anti-tank grenade launcher that fires an unguided anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade. The weapon was designed as a smaller and lighter alternative to the RPG-7, especially for use by airborne troops. Thanks to jet nozzles located between the warhead and the fuel compartment, it can be fired ...

  3. PT-76 - Wikipedia

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    PT-76 (Ob'yekt 740, 1957) – PT-76 armed with the D-56TM 76.2 mm rifled tank gun (double-baffle muzzle brake, bore evacuator, fume extractor) and a height of the hull was increased by 13 cm. [4] It has night vision driver device TVN-2B, new headlamps, a new R-113 radio instead of the old 10-RT-26E set (it was later replaced by the R-123) and ...

  4. Hobart's Funnies - Wikipedia

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    The tank could place demolition charges at heights up to 12 feet. The tank was driven against a wall, and the framework was lowered into the ground against the wall. The tank then backed up 100 feet, laying out an electric detonating cable. The explosives were then detonated by the tank driver. It was the successor to the single-charge device ...

  5. T92 light tank - Wikipedia

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    The T92 had an unusual large cleft, low-profile, turret mounting a high-velocity 76 mm T185E1 rifled gun in a cradle housing between two armored cupolas. The T185E1 was ballistically identical to the 76 mm gun M32 of the M41 light tank but it had a quick change tube and was mounted upside down to accommodate the semi-automatic loader. Empty ...

  6. Aerospace General Mini-Copter - Wikipedia

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    The Aerospace General Mini-Copter was a miniature helicopter designed to be air-dropped to U.S. military pilots stranded behind enemy lines or in otherwise inaccessible areas. At its most basic, the Mini-Copter was simply made up of fuel tanks and a rotor unit strapped to the pilot.

  7. 76 mm tank gun M1940 F-34 - Wikipedia

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    The F-34 was designed before the start of World War II by P. Muraviev of Vasiliy Grabin's design bureau at Factory No. 92 in Gorky.The gun was superior to both contemporary 76.2 mm guns, Gorky's F-32 and the Leningrad Kirov Plant's L-11, but it was the latter that had already been approved for the new T-34 medium tank.

  8. Bell P-76 - Wikipedia

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    Because of the number of changes proposed the production model was to be called the Bell P-76. The Bell P-76 was proposed to address the poor high-altitude performance of the P-39 Airacobra by incorporating a new and thicker wing with a symmetrical airfoil ; the section chosen was NACA 0018 at the wing-root tapering to an NACA 23009 at the tip.

  9. 76 mm divisional gun M1939 (USV) - Wikipedia

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    The 76-mm divisional gun M1939 (F-22 USV or USV) (Russian: 76-мм дивизионная пушка обр. 1939 г. (Ф-22 УСВ or УСВ)) was a 76.2 mm cannon produced in the Soviet Union. It was adopted for Red Army service in 1939 and used extensively in World War II.