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The Mk 153 Shoulder-Launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon ( SMAW) is a smoothbore shoulder-fired rocket launcher. [ 2] It is a portable assault weapon (i.e., bunker buster) and has a secondary anti-armor ability. Developed from the B-300, it was introduced to the United States Armed Forces in 1984. It has a maximum effective range of 500 metres ...
This pod is said to have been used on a variety of US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft including the A-4 Skyhawk, F-4 Phantom II, A-7 Corsair II, and OV-10 Bronco. [ 1] Approximately 1200 Mk 4 Gun Pods were manufactured by Hughes Tool Company, later Hughes Helicopter, in Culver City, California. While the system was tested and certified for use ...
The Buffalo Arms bolt in this original M3 is dated January 1944. The M3 is an American .45-caliber submachine gun adopted by the U.S. Army on 12 December 1942, as the United States Submachine Gun, Cal. .45, M3. [ 12] The M3 was chambered for the same .45 ACP round fired by the Thompson submachine gun, but was cheaper to mass produce and lighter ...
The Phalanx CIWS ( SEE-wiz) is an automated gun-based close-in weapon system to defend military watercraft automatically against incoming threats such as aircraft, missiles, and small boats. It was designed and manufactured by the General Dynamics Corporation, Pomona Division, [ 3] later a part of Raytheon.
Submachine gun France: 700,000 Colt Woodsman: Semi-automatic pistol United States: 690,000+ [153] Lorenz rifle: Rifle-musket Austrian Empire: 688,000 Werndl–Holub rifle: Single-shot rifle Austria-Hungary: 686,000 Model 1816 Musket: Musket United States: 675,000 [154] M3 submachine gun: Submachine gun 655,363 [155] SA80: Assault rifle United ...
Villar Perosa aircraft submachine gun. The Pistola Mitragliatrice Fiat Mod. 1915, [ 1] commonly nicknamed the Villar Perosa,[ 1] was an Italian portable automatic weapon developed during World War I by the Officine di Villar Perosa . As it was designed to use 9×19mm ammunition, it is said to be the first submachine gun, although not a true ...
Anti-aircraft guns are weapons designed to attack aircraft. Such weapons commonly have a high rate of fire and are able to fire shells designed to damage aircraft. They also are capable of firing at high angles, but are also usually able to hit ground targets as well in a direct fire role.
Variant of the AG-C with a shorter barrel for the HK 416 and the HK 417. M79 grenade launcher. Springfield Armory. Action Manufacturing Company. Kanarr Corporation [ 3] Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge. 40 mm grenade. United States. 1953.