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Dead Frontier 3D version screenshot [6] depicting players in the Inner City at the helicopter crash site. A free registration process is required from the user. [7] [8] Once the registration process is completed, the player creates an avatar which can be used to play in a 3D computer graphics environment (although, with certain settings accessible via the forum, players can revert to the ...
2020–2021 China–India skirmishes. Part of the Sino-Indian border dispute. A CIAmap of Kashmir with red circles marking the rough locations of the conflicts near the Galwan Valley(top), Spanggur Tsoand Pangong Tso(bottom). One section of the Pangong Tso-Chushul skirmish area along the LAC via NASA WorldWind. Date.
The standard Korean sword was the hwando, a curved sword commonly used by Joseon soldiers during peacetime that is shorter, but lighter than its Japanese counterpart. A uniquely Korean weapon was the flail, a 1.5-metre-long (4.9 ft) hardwood stick, painted red, acting as the handle for a chain attached to a shaft with iron nails. [106]
Gunstock war club. The gunstock club or gun stock war club is an indigenous weapon used by many Native American groupings, named for its similar appearance to the wooden stocks of muskets and rifles of the time. [1] Gunstock clubs were most predominantly used by Eastern Woodland, Central and Northern Plains tribes in the 18th and 19th centuries.
S. Sawed-off shotgun. Sharps & Hankins model 1862 carbine. Sharps rifle. Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878. Slocum revolver. Smith & Wesson Model 1. Smith & Wesson Model 1 1/2. Smith & Wesson Model 2.
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
Swordsmanship or sword fighting refers to the skills and techniques used in combat and training with any type of sword. The term is modern, and as such was mainly used to refer to smallsword fencing, but by extension it can also be applied to any martial art involving the use of a sword. The formation of the English word "swordsman" is parallel ...
A melee weapon, hand weapon, close combat weapon or fist-load weapon is any handheld weapon used in hand-to-hand combat, i.e. for use within the direct physical reach of the weapon itself, essentially functioning as an additional (and more effective) extension of the user's limbs. By contrast, a ranged weapon is any other weapon capable of ...