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Hammer's Slammers series (or the Hammerverse, Slammerverse, Slammers universe, Hammer universe) is a setting for a series of military science fiction short stories and novels by author David Drake. The series follows the career of a future mercenary tank regiment called Hammer's Slammers , after their leader, Colonel Alois Hammer.
The first story follows Colonel Hammer himself, as well as introducing Joachim Steuben, his right-hand man and bodyguard.It opens with a conversation between Secretary Tromp, a powerful politician from the wealthy planet Friesland, and a Friesland Guards armored regiment officer, in Tromp's office at the spaceport hotel on the Friesland colony world of Melpomene.
Protecting herself with a hand gun, Lily lets Mike inside her apartment. Lily was scared to death with all the strangers confronting her with questions about Berga, but Lily does not know a thing. After Lily calms down, Mike tells her to get her things together and come to his place.
If two hammers strike each other, or a hammer strikes an anvil, at least one hammer will completely shatter with lethal force. Busted: Using a custom rig, the MythBusters repeatedly struck pairs of hammers together, but none shattered. Hammers with wooden handles merely snapped in two, and hammers with metal handles bent.
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The hammer itself is a metal piece that forcefully rotates about a pivot point. [2] The term tumbler can refer to a part of the hammer or a part mechanically attached to the pivot-point of the hammer, depending on the particular firearm under discussion (see half-cock). According to one source the term tumbler is synonymous with hammer. [3] [4]
The Bolshevik plant (now Obukhov State Plant) took over after Lender's death in 1927, with the Artkom design bureau charged with designing universal 122mm corps guns and 203/152 mm cannons as Letter No. 51255/12Ya5 specified. The 203mm howitzer was presented in two variants, namely one with and one without the muzzle brake. The two guns were ...