A less-powerful weapon would still produce casualties at the shorter ranges encountered in actual combat, and the reduced recoil would allow more shots to be fired in the short amount of time an enemy was visible.

A shorter barrel made the weapon weigh less and was easier to handle in tight spaces, and was easier to shoulder quickly to fire a shot at an unexpected target.

A selective-fire weapon was developed to fire this shorter cartridge, eventually resulting in the Sturmgewehr 44, later translated as " assault rifle ".

A shorter length made a handier weapon in which tight-fitting balls did not have to be rammed so far down the barrel.

" The throwing spear was not discarded but used as an initial missile weapon before close contact with the enemy, when the shorter stabbing spear was used in hand to hand combat.

Although shorter swords and daggers were used, the katana was probably the ninja's weapon of choice, and was sometimes carried on the back.

By the end of this period the long sword ( tachi ) was superseded by a shorter weapon in a new form, called katana.

This meant that pikemen had to be equipped with a shorter weapon such as a sword, mace, or dagger in order to defend themselves should the fighting degenerate into a melee.

It was obvious that the modern warfare would require the infantry to be armed with a light, selective fire weapon, with effective range of fire much longer than that of a submachine gun, but shorter than that of conventional semi-automatic or bolt action rifles.

The shorter length reduced the magazine capacity to 5 + 5 rounds and makes the weapon easier to import or license in many countries.

A shorter weapon could not be used as a pike, and its weight was a balance between being heavy enough to be used as a pike or club, but light enough to be carried and used by general infantrymen.

It was used by both infantry and cavalry ; the horseman's weapon had a shorter shaft.

External stores allow those aircraft to attack more targets further away, but will not allow for stealth during that mission as compared to a shorter range mission flying on just internal fuel and using only the more limited space of the internal weapon bays for armaments.

A downside to the holographic weapon sight can be the weight and shorter battery life.

The preferred civilian dueling weapon shifted from the rapier to the faster but shorter smallsword, and eventually shifted totally away from swords to the pistol, following developments in firearm technology.

If the weapon is moving, then a shorter lock time minimizes the effect of that motion.

The Royal Green Jackets predecessors were issued with short swords instead of bayonets as the Baker rifles of the past were shorter than the traditional musket, fitting the sword to the rifle made the overall weapon length the same as a musket with bayonet attached.

These used the same shaped blades mounted on the side of the weapon and had a shorter handle.

The weapon is also lighter and shorter.

The shorter barrel meant that the weapon could be housed within the wing of a fighter plane, reducing drag and making them less vulnerable to freezing and mechanical stress.

These ranged weapons were extremely effective in combat in comparison to close-combat weapons, as they gave the wielder opportunity to launch multiple projectiles before an enemy armed with melee weapons or shorter ranged missile weapon posed a threat to him.

Pieces in Squad Leader represent regular squads ( rated for firepower, range and morale ), weapon and vehicle crews, elite squads ( with high firepower and morale but shorter range-used to represent paratroops or combat engineers armed with sub-machine guns ), individual leaders, support weapons, and vehicles.

The slungshot was often used as a civilian or improvised weapon ; however, the rope length became much shorter when used as a weapon.

He walked with a heavy list to the right, as that leg was four inches shorter than the other, but the lurch did not reduce his feline quickness with his guns.

He was shorter and fatter than Owen, who felt good standing next to him.

Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatise, which " fell stillborn from the press ," as he put it, and so tried again to disseminate his more developed ideas to the public by writing a shorter and more polemical work.

Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the Archbishop of Wales.

When the CCITT ( now ITU-T ) was standardizing ATM, parties from the United States wanted a 64-byte payload because this was felt to be a good compromise in larger payloads optimized for data transmission and shorter payloads optimized for real-time applications like voice ; parties from Europe wanted 32-byte payloads because the small size ( and therefore short transmission times ) simplify voice applications with respect to echo cancellation.

Considered a " dogfight Sparrow ", the AIM-7E-2 was intended to be used at shorter ranges where the missile was still travelling at high speeds, and in the head-on aspect, making it much more useful in the visual limitations imposed on the engagements.

In the nineteenth century, the balalaika evolved into a triangular instrument with a neck that was substantially shorter than that of its Asian counterparts.

The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the oldest received work of Chinese medical theory, was compiled around the first century BCE on the basis of shorter texts from different medical lineages.

The two upper steps were made of eight shorter but similarly shaped stones, and on top was an octagonal block about three feet high with a cross fixed upon it.

The US M1 Carbine was more of a traditional carbine in that it was significantly shorter and lighter, with a 457. 2 mm ( 18 in.

The M1 Carbine was not a shorter version of the M1 Garand, as was typical for rifles vs. carbines in the 19th century, but a wholly different design firing a smaller, less-powerful cartridge.

By the 1990s, the US had adopted the M4 carbine, a derivative of the M16 family which fired the same 5. 56mm cartridge but was lighter and shorter ( in overall length and barrel length ), resulting in marginally reduced range and power.

This was a factor in the rise of V8 engines, with their shorter crankshafts, in preference to straight-8 engines.

( The SI second as now used for UTC, when adopted, was already a little shorter than the current value of the second of mean solar time.

Political economy was the earlier name for the subject, but economists in the latter 19th century suggested ' economics ' as a shorter term for ' economic science ' that also avoided a narrow political-interest connotation and as similar in form to ' mathematics ', ' ethics ', and so forth.

The Ediacaran Period overlaps, but is shorter than the Vendian Period, a name that was earlier, in 1952, proposed by Russian geologist and paleontologist Boris Sokolov.

Among them, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, are: ( 1 ) shorter work weeks, ( 2 ) higher pay, ( 3 ) longer paid vacations, ( 4 ) better transportation, ( 5 ) earlier retirement, and ( 6 ) more education.

Alligators differ from crocodiles principally in having wider and shorter heads, with more obtuse snouts ; in having the fourth, enlarged tooth of the under jaw received, not into an external notch, but into a pit formed for it within the upper one ; in lacking a jagged fringe which appears on the hind legs and feet of the crocodile ; in having the toes of the hind feet webbed not more than half way to the tips ; and an intolerance to salinity, alligators strongly preferring fresh water, while crocodiles can tolerate salt water due to specialized glands for filtering out salt.

This meant the Electron had a lifespan not much shorter than those more popular micros and much longer than competitors such as the Oric-1 and Dragon 32.

The latest AIM-120D AMRAAM has a significantly lower range of about, but the AMRAAM is much shorter, lighter, and more flexible in its use against a wide variety of targets, including fighter planes, bombers, helicopters, patrol planes, and reconnaissance planes.

Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements.

Third base is a shorter throw for the catcher, and thus more difficult to steal, though a right-handed batter can sometimes help by serving as an obstacle that the catcher must throw around.

Moreover, this disposition – concave in relation to the Allied army – gave Marlborough the opportunity to form a more compact line, drawn up in a shorter front between the ‘ horns ’ of the French crescent ; when the Allied blow came it would be more concentrated and carry more weight.

They have fewer teeth and shorter skulls, with much more specialized carnassials meant for shearing meat.

A cable code replaces words ( e. g., ship or invoice ) with shorter words, allowing the same information to be sent with fewer characters, more quickly, and most important, less expensively.

The line is going to be entirely electrified and in order to speed up the journey even more shall be long from end to end, shorter than the existing line.

Two airports are more than 3, 047 meters in length, nine are 2, 438 – 3, 047 meters, 39 are 1, 524 – 2, 437 meters, 38 are 914 – 1, 523 meters, 12 are shorter than 914 meters, and 880 have unpaved runways.

Road bikes tend to have a more upright shape and a shorter wheelbase, which make the bike more mobile but harder to ride slowly.

Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

Compared to " regular " carbines / rifles ( such as those in. 223 and 7. 62x39mm ), pistol-caliber carbines may suffer from a shorter effective range, more pronounced trajectory, less power, and less effectiveness against body armor.

Eastern European wolves tend to be shorter and more heavily built than Northern Russian ones.