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An explosive weapon generally uses high explosive to project blast and often fragmentation from a point of detonation.. Explosive weapons may be subdivided by their method of manufacture into explosive ordnance and improvised explosive devices ().
Propellers: 4-bladed fixed pitch wooden, 3 m (9 ft 10 in) diameter propeller centres 3.3 m (11 ft) apart; Performance. Maximum speed: 135 km/h (84 mph, 73 kn) Endurance: 10 hours; Time to altitude: 2,000 m (6,562 ft) in 35 mins; Armament. Guns: Provision for one machine-gun in the nose and two machine-guns on top of the fuselage
Reports at the time indicated LZ 77 had searchlights, eight machine guns, two so-called 'revolver' guns in the top lookout post, was accompanied by fixed-wing aircraft and at least one other Zeppelin and had orders to bomb nearby railway lines. [36] [37] Destroyed in the Battle of Verdun 21 February 1916 LZ 48: P: L 15 9 September 1915
The following list of modern armament manufacturers presents major companies producing modern weapons and munitions for military, paramilitary, government agency and civilian use. The companies are listed by their full name followed by the short form, or common acronym, if any, in parentheses. The country the company is based in, if the ...
M4 Carbine manufactured locally by SME Ordnance. SME Ordnance was formed in 1969 as a joint venture company with equity participation between the Government of Malaysia, Dynamit Nobel of Germany, Oerlikon Machine Tools of Switzerland and two local partners namely Syarikat Permodalan Kebangsaan and Syarikat Jaya Raya Sdn Bhd. [4] The Malaysian government later acquired all shares in 1974 ...
The SockelFlak started life as defensive armament for Zeppelin airships against fighter attack. However, once defenders discovered that airships filled with hydrogen were vulnerable to machine guns firing tracer ammunition Zeppelin losses mounted and the Germans switched to less vulnerable bomber aircraft. This meant that the SockelFlak needed ...
On 28 March 1943, in the port of Naples, a fire began on Caterina Costa, an 8,060-ton motor ship carrying arms and supplies (1,000 tons of gas, 900 tons of explosives, tanks and others); the fire became uncontrollable, causing a devastating explosion. A large number of buildings around were destroyed or badly damaged.
In order to penetrate armor they fired specialized ammunition from proportionally longer barrels to achieve a higher muzzle velocity than field guns. [8] Most anti-tank guns were developed in the 1930s as improvements in tanks were noted, [4] and nearly every major arms manufacturer produced one type or another. [7]