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A weapon ahead of its time was the Hafdasa C-2 machine pistol issued to armoured vehicle personnel which would be today classed as a Personal Defense Weapon.
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By 1955 Douglas proposed going ahead with development, intending it to be the primary weapon for the F5D Skylancer interceptor.
The first step in finding a real solution was to mount the weapon on the aircraft, but the propeller remained a problem since the best direction to shoot is straight ahead.
The uranium weapon would not be tested ; its success could be more or less guaranteed by measurements ahead of time.
The soldiers in Florida praised the new weapon, but the unusual hammerless design, sixty years ahead of its time, led to difficulty in training men who were used to exposed-hammer guns.
The weapon fires a salvo of 24 bombs in an arc, aimed to land in a circular or elliptical area about 100 feet ( 30 m ) in diameter at a fixed point about 250 yards ( 230 m ) directly ahead of the attacking ship.
The player is armed with a beam-like weapon which can be fired rapidly in a long horizontal line ahead of the spaceship, and also has a limited supply of smart bombs, which can destroy every enemy on the screen.
While no power has developed a weapon yet, it appears that the United States and German programs are ahead of the Confederate one, with Germany the closest to completion.
The M320 was developed from but is not identical to the Heckler & Koch AG36 ( a key distinguishing feature being the addition of a folding foregrip ahead of the trigger for use when the weapon is in stand-alone configuration, a feature the AG36 lacks ).
A measure of how far ahead of his time he was can be seen by looking at his experimental designs of semiautomatic rifles, developed at a time when ammunition was not suitable to function properly in such a weapon.
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His gun was half drawn when he asked the question, but the weapon never left its holster.
One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;
Each source selected from its approved bidders list about 200 firms which it believed to be small businesses that participated in the production of weapons and weapon support systems.
Certainly, one of the best ways of warning the world against anti-Semitism is to demonstrate its workings as a dangerous weapon.
With this ultimate weapon, the two Yankees may have saved baseball from its dullest season.
Philosophically, the tank is, by its very nature, an offensive weapon.
* 1894 – Norway formally adopts the Krag-Jørgensen rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
The prototype weapon began unpowered flight-tests in 1947, and made its first aerial interception in 1952.
The boomerang was first encountered by western people at Farm Cove ( Port Jackson ), Australia, in December 1804 where its use as a weapon was witnessed during a tribal skirmish:
Another property of anthrax that helped fuel its use as a biological weapon is its poor ability to spread far beyond the targeted population.
With no effective long-range weapon the original Blue Steel served on after a crash programme of minor modifications to permit a low-level launch at, even though its usefulness in a hot war was likely limited.
While its use has several advantages over use of a live edged weapon, it can still be deadly, and any training with a bokken should be done with due care.
Some sources derive the name of the weapon from the name of its first users — bernarda troopers called " carabiniers ", from the French carabine, from the Old French carabin ( soldier armed with a musket ), perhaps from escarrabin, gravedigger, perhaps from scarabee, scarab beetle.
The new weapon would prove its worth in the Battle of Mylae, the first Roman naval victory, and would continued to do so in the following years, especially in the huge Battle of Cape Ecnomus.
An automatic weapon is generally defined as a firearm which continues to load and fire cartridges from its magazine as long as the trigger is depressed ( or until the magazine is depleted ).
Freud pointed out that " as a rule the ego carries out repressions in the service and at the behest of its superego ; but this is a case in which it has turned the same weapon against its harsh taskmaster.
Unlike most European countries the Czech gun law allow its citizens to carry a concealed weapon without having any specific reason.
While Greek fire remained a potent weapon, its limitations were significant when compared to more traditional forms of artillery: in its siphon-deployed version, it had a limited range, and it could be used safely only in a calm sea and with favourable wind conditions.
The nuclear isomer < sup > 178m2 </ sup > Hf was at the center of a controversy for several years regarding its potential use as a weapon.
The post-apocalyptic role-playing video game Fallout 2 and its sequel Fallout: New Vegas also feature a throwing weapon called the Holy Frag Grenade, bearing the same shape as the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
One particular weapon developed by the Soviet Union ( FOBS ) had a partial orbital trajectory, and unlike most ICBMs its target could not be deduced from its orbital flight path.
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His later boastings of his skill with the small sword are indicative of much time and practice devoted to the use of that weapon.
The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.
By that time we should be in a much better position to determine the value of that aircraft as a weapon system.
When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlessness -- until redeemed -- the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state ''.
No blood was shed this time ; Alaric relied on hunger as his most powerful weapon.
The 90 / 53 was a feared weapon, notably in the anti-tank role, but only a few hundred had been produced by the time of the armistice in 1943.
The active radar made the Sparrow II a " fire and forget " weapon, allowing several to be fired at separate targets at the same time.
While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.
The trials began in 1960 about the time the original requirement expected the weapon to be in service.
Since the Byzantine army was still holding on after this defeat the sultan thought it was time to set up his secret weapon, a huge mobile tower.
The poem is referenced in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game EarthBound, where a weapon is named the Casey Bat, which is the strongest weapon in the game, but will only hit 25 % of the time.
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.
During this time, the dagger was often employed in the role of a secondary defense weapon in close combat.
Due to the effects of firing the ordnance ( barrel ) at the time, the gunner had to be located somewhat behind the weapon, steadying brace with the other hand.
The Chinese wasted little time in applying gunpowder to the development of weapons, and in the centuries that followed, they produced a variety of gunpowder weapons, including flamethrowers, rockets, bombs, and land mines, before inventing guns as a projectile weapon.
For a time after the weapon was adopted by Denmark they experimented with dual frontal locking lugs, but decided against it on grounds of cost and weight.
The plant was operated by Anorgana GmbH, a subsidiary of IG Farben, as were all other chemical weapon agent production plants in Germany at the time.
Much time may nevertheless be spent on basic physical training, such as stance training ( zhan zhuang ), stretching and strengthening of muscles, as well as on empty hand and weapon forms which can be quite demanding.
Wielding the woldo took time due to its weight, but in the hands of a trained soldier, the woldo was a fearsome, agile weapon famous for enabling a single soldier to cut down ranks of infantrymen.
By the time of the first world war, the rifle had already been established as the stock weapon for modern infantry.
In the development of firearms, an important limiting factor was the time it took to reload the weapon after it was fired.
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