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  2. Terraria - Wikipedia

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    Terraria (/ t ə ˈ r ɛər i ə / ⓘ tə-RAIR-ee-ə [1]) is a 2011 action-adventure sandbox game developed by Re-Logic. The game was first released for Windows and has since been ported to other PC and console platforms.

  3. Dazzler (weapon) - Wikipedia

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    The GLARE RECOIL and GLARE HELIOS dazzlers utilize built-in safety mechanisms to prevent eye damage by pairing the dazzler with a rangefinder; the dazzler will self-modulate power output with respect to range to target so the closer the target, the lower the output and the farther the target, the greater the output.

  4. Water gun - Wikipedia

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    A young girl playing with a water gun. A water gun (or water pistol, water blaster, or squirt gun) is a type of toy gun designed to shoot jets of water.Similar to water balloons, the primary purpose of the toy is to soak another person in a recreational game such as a water fight.

  5. Underwater firearm - Wikipedia

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    After entering the water, the bullet will continue its original trajectory. The user, when aiming the gun, needs to compensate for the refractive index of the water (roughly 1.333 for fresh water at 20 °C (68 °F)). [2] MEA series supercavitating ammunition is currently available in the following calibers: [2]

  6. Recoil - Wikipedia

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    The gun acquires a rearward velocity that is ratio of this momentum by the mass of the gun: the heavier the gun, the slower the rearward velocity. As an example, a 8 g (124 gr) bullet of 9×19mm Parabellum flying forward at 350 m/s muzzle speed generates a momentum to push a 0.8 kg pistol firing it at 3.5 m/s rearward, if unopposed by the shooter.

  7. Early thermal weapons - Wikipedia

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    The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70, by David Roberts (1850), shows the city burning. Early thermal weapons, which used heat or burning action to destroy or damage enemy personnel, fortifications or territories, were employed in warfare during the classical and medieval periods (approximately the 8th century BC until the mid-16th century AD).

  8. Iron sights - Wikipedia

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    To do that, the shooter aligns their line of sight with the front and rear sights, forming a consistent 'line of aim' (known as the 'sight axis') and in turn producing what is known as the 'point of aim' (POA) within their own field of view, which then gets pointed directly (i.e. aimed) at the target. The physical distance between the front and ...

  9. Elephant gun - Wikipedia

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    An elephant gun is a large caliber gun, rifled or smoothbore, originally developed for use by big-game hunters for elephant and other large game. Elephant guns were black powder muzzle-loaders at first, then black powder express rifles , then later used smokeless powder cartridges.