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- A machine gun is a fully-automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rifle cartridges in quick succession from an ammunition ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
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- pattern. This features a main artillery gun, mounted in a fully rotating ... a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially ...10 KB (1,555 words) - 03:51, 15 August 2023
- during much of the later nineteenth century. Daewon-gun, the father of the penultimate Joseon monarch, Gojong, decisively wielded royal power for ten ...9 KB (1,510 words) - 07:43, 12 January 2024
- A machine gun is a fully-automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rifle cartridges in quick succession from an ammunition ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- discuss how to best to control the flooding. Gun was elected to take charge ... Yu, Gun's son, would now carry out his father's mission ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 November 2022
- * Chain gun: It is a type of machine gun that utilizes a chain, driven by an external power source, to actuate the mechanism rather than using recoil. ...6 KB (898 words) - 01:13, 4 December 2023
- ====Gun emplacements==== The 7th Coast Artillery Regiment made up the ... in the emplacement. The 6-inch quick-firing gun represented cutting-edge artillery ...15 KB (2,283 words) - 06:35, 1 April 2024
- command, the newly constructed Ranger (18 gun frigate), on June 14, 1777 ... to be saluted by the French, with a nine gun salvo fired from Admiral Piquet’s ...18 KB (2,826 words) - 07:03, 3 August 2022
- that when struck by the firing pin of the gun ignites the powder, and the ... of bullets in flight while using a machine gun. Some ammunition for police ...18 KB (2,918 words) - 17:14, 26 July 2023
- [[File:Stanley-Hot-Glue-Gun-GR35K.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A glue gun ... materials to which they can adhere. A glue gun is one method of applying ...13 KB (1,970 words) - 05:51, 15 June 2023
- quot; with Ray Middleton in Annie Get Your Gun and "You're Just ... would not select her for Annie Get Your Gun or Gypsy. Some critics state ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 04:31, 22 March 2024
- recently introduced a new lightweight 37 mm gun, whose users quickly nicknamed ... late as 1943. The "typical" towed gun by late 1942 was 50 mm or ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- that Dillinger had escaped using a wooden gun blackened with shoe polish. ... spoke. As a result, the findings about the gun in the escape were never made ...13 KB (2,104 words) - 18:51, 5 April 2024
- rr=Goguryeo gobun(-)gun| mr=Koguryŏ kobun'gun| }} context=north|hangul=안악3호분|hanja ...8 KB (1,121 words) - 00:21, 8 January 2024
- A tool may be defined as a device or piece of equipment that is used to facilitate or accomplish a mechanical task. A broader definition of a ...10 KB (1,479 words) - 17:21, 18 April 2023
- This included the European breech–loading gun and culverin, the wheellock ... time, which includes various compositions of gun powder, hollow cast iron grenade ...17 KB (2,391 words) - 20:43, 3 April 2024
- and a rifle was called a "rifled gun." Rifles are used in ... Around 1725, in Eastern Pennsylvania, gun makers began making a long ...37 KB (6,097 words) - 19:01, 11 August 2022
- Capone's gang member Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn to eliminate ... was never arrested for the crime and the gun men were never captured. Al ...8 KB (1,287 words) - 00:55, 23 December 2022
- navy in 1799, as a midshipman aboard the 74 gun HMS Venerable, and transferred ... appointed first lieutenant in charge of 12 gun HMS Porpoise. He then sailed ...8 KB (1,276 words) - 07:02, 3 August 2022
- only one shell can be loaded in the gun and it has to be reloaded ... at least two shells can be loaded in the gun at a time, and thus at least ...33 KB (5,325 words) - 14:26, 27 January 2023
- world. The particular interests of antique gun collectors vary, but guns ... are best monitored by comparing prices at gun shows, and by checking references ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
