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Vietnam-era rifles used by the US military and allies. From top to bottom: M14, MAS 36, M16 (30 round magazine), AR-10, M16 (20 round magazine), M21, L1A1, M40, MAS 49 The Vietnam War involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Soviet ...
In World War I, aircraft were initially intended for aerial reconnaissance, however some pilots began to carry rifles in case they spotted enemy planes.Soon, planes were fitted with machine guns with a variety of mountings; initially the only guns were carried in the rear cockpit supplying defensive fire (this was employed by two-seat aircraft all through the war).
3-inch M1918 gun United States: World War I / Interwar 76.2 3-inch anti-aircraft gun M3 United States: Interwar / World War II 76.2 3"/23 caliber gun United States: World War I / World War II 76.2 3"/50 caliber gun United States: World War I / World War II / Korean War / Cold War / Vietnam War 76.2 3"/70 Mark 26 gun United States: Cold War 76.2
This is a list of weapons served individually by the United States armed forces. While the general understanding is that crew-served weapons require more than one person to operate them, there are important exceptions in the case for both squad automatic weapons (SAW) and sniper rifles.
This list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.. Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [1] which has been particularly applied to ...
Expediency – War is a matter of expedients – von Moltke; Fog, friction, chance – War is characterized by fog, friction, and chance; Golden Bridge – To leave an opponent an opportunity to withdraw in order to not force them to act out of desperation – Sun Tzu; Iron Calculus of War – Resistance = Means x Will – Clausewitz
Iraqi EE-9 Cascavel armoured car hit by Coalition tank fire in February 1991. Coalition aircraft inbound during Operation Desert Shield.. List of Gulf War military equipment is a summary of the various military weapons and vehicles used by the different nations during the Gulf War of 1990–1991.
MG 3 machine gun [4] - Modernised variant of WWII MG 42. Served as the main German Cold War machine gun from the late 1950s. Served as the main German Cold War machine gun from the late 1950s. Heckler & Koch HK21 - a general purpose machine gun developed in 1961, based on the G3 battle rifle