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The Ross rifle is a straight-pull bolt action rifle chambered in .303 British that was produced in Canada from 1903 until 1918. [1]The Ross Mk.II (or "model 1905") rifle was highly successful in target shooting before World War I, but the close chamber tolerances, lack of primary extraction and length made the Mk.III (or "1910") Ross rifle unsuitable for the conditions of trench warfare ...
T2AAP = 3,600 Cartridges, .45 ACP Ball M1911, in 50-round Cartons, 12 cartons per M5 Ammo Can, 3 M5 Ammo Cans per rectangular cardboard box, 2 horizontally-stacked cardboard boxes per metal 20mm Mk.1 Mod.0 ammo box. Used by the Navy and Marine Corps starting in 1943 to replace the small and large M1917 wooden packing boxes.
Various firearms used by the United States military during World War II, displayed at the National Firearms Museum in Fairfax County, Virginia. The following is a list of World War II weapons of the United States, which includes firearm, artillery, vehicles, vessels, and other support equipment known to have been used by the United States Armed Forces—namely the United States Army, United ...
Lebel M1886/93 (Remained in use until the end of World War II. Mainly used by reservists and for launching VB grenades and as sniper rifle) [192] [193] [194] [183] MAS-36 (Adopted in 1936 by France and intended to replace the Berthier and Lebel series of service rifles) [195] RSC M1917 and M1918 [196] [197]
Welrod Mk IIA. The Welrod takes the form of a 1.25-inch-diameter (32 mm) cylinder, about 12 in (300 mm) long. [8] The rear section of the cylinder contains the bolt, the middle section, the vented (16–20 ports) barrel and expansion chamber for the barrel and the front section, the baffles and (rubber) wipes of the silencer.
3inch Self Propelled M10 – Gun Motor Carriage M10, provided under lend-lease from America. 17pdr Self propelled M10C – M10 rearmed with 17-pdr gun; AEC Mk I Gun Carrier "Deacon" – 6pdr on armoured wheeled chassis; Carrier, Valentine, 25-pdr gun, Mk.I, Bishop – interim design for 25 pdr on tank chassis
Otto Eberhardt Patronenfabrik (English: "Otto Eberhardt Cartridge Factory") was a munitions company established in 1860. The company's Hirtenberger Patronen, Zündhütchen und Metallwarenfabrik (English: "cartridge, primer and metalware fabrication in Hirtenberg") near Wiener Neustadt (proofmark "am") [1] used forced labor during World War II from a sub-camp of the Mauthausen-Gusen ...
The .280 Ross, also known as the .280 Nitro, .280 Rimless Nitro Express Ross (CIP) and .280 Rimless cartridge, is an approximately 7mm bullet diameter rifle round developed in Canada by F.W. Jones as a consultant to Sir Charles Ross, 9th Baronet, and his Ross Rifle Company of Quebec, Canada for use as a Canadian military cartridge as a replacement for the .303 British, and in a civilianised ...