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The FK PSD is the FK BRNO design adapted to have a polymer frame. Available at a much lower price-point, the PSD is lighter and roughly equal to the FK BRNO in performance. A multi-caliber design, it also shoots the cheaper 9x19mm, 10 mm Auto and .40 S&W ammunition types with a barrel replacement. [7] [9]
U.S. Army Ordnance issued a requirement for a "light rifle" with greater range, firepower, and accuracy than the M1911 pistol while weighing half as much as the M1 Garand. [11] As a result, the U.S. developed the semi-automatic M1 Carbine and shortly thereafter the select-fire M2 Carbine. Widely employed until the end of the Vietnam War, these ...
In 2010 the company was renamed to Zbrojovka BRNO, s.r.o. In 2005 CZ became the owner of Dan Wesson Firearms through its subsidiary CZ-USA . In 2011 the company began production of the new generation of CZ 805 BREN A1/A2 assault rifles, CZ SCORPION EVO 3 A1 submachine guns and CZ 805 BREN G1 grenade launchers for the Armed Forces of the Czech ...
This light machine gun in the Czechoslovak army was marked as the LK vz. 26 ("LK" means lehký kulomet, light machine gun; "vz." stands for vzor, Model in Czech). ZB vz. 26 is incorrect nomenclature because "ZB-26" is a factory designation (Československá zbrojovka v Brně), while "vzor 26" or "vz. 26" is an army designation.
The gun data computer was a series of artillery computers used by the U.S. Army for coastal artillery, field artillery and anti-aircraft artillery applications. For antiaircraft applications they were used in conjunction with a director computer.
A PRC-117 radio and SATCOM antenna. The AN/PRC-117F/G radio is currently in use with the United States Navy Seabee and EOD teams in their MRAP and JERRV vehicles. [2] The radio is also in use by the United States Marine Corps, [6] United States Army, [7] USSOCOM, [8] United States Coast Guard, United States Air Force, [9] Royal Air Force, [10] Dutch Army, Spanish Air Force, British Army ...
Vz. 24 Type Bolt-action rifle Place of origin Czechoslovakia Service history Used by See Users Wars Constitutionalist Revolution Chaco War Ecuadorian–Peruvian War Spanish Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War World War II Chinese Civil War Biafran War Production history Designed 1924 Manufacturer Zbrojovka Brno Produced 1924–1942 Specifications Mass 4.2 kg (9.2 lb) Length 1,100 mm (43.3 in ...
A sniper of the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, U.S. Army, takes aim with an M21 while on patrol on an urban Iraqi street, on 13 May 2004. The use of "sharpshooters" (or snipers) can be traced in U.S. military history from the time of the Revolutionary War of 1775–1781. Every U.S. military action since that time ...