Absent-minded, subject to unexplained tears Jubal would have bet his life that if Anne were to witness the Second Coming, she would memorize date, time, personae, events, and barometric pressure without batting her calm blue eyes.

But he knew well enough that those guns would still be trained on his back as he walked towards the wagon.

After hard lessons early in the war, machine guns were mounted for use against infantry but the limited traverse of the mounting meant that they were still less effective than those used on turreted tanks.

Despite the improved guns, production of the Panzer III was ended in 1943, as the tank still could not match the T-34, and was replaced by the Panzer IV and Panther tanks.

At the point the German ships opened fire with accurately determined ranges for their guns, Beatty's ships were still maneuvering, some could not see the enemy because of their own smoke, and hardly any had the opportunity of a period of steady course as they approached to properly determine target range.

Air-to-air missiles largely replaced guns and rockets in the early 1960s since both were believed unusable at the speeds being attained, however the Vietnam War showed that guns still had a role to play and most fighters built since then are fitted with cannon ( typically between 20 and 30 mm in caliber ) as an adjunct to missiles.

By the later stages of the Eighty Years War the Dutch had switched entirely from the heavier ships still used by the English and Spanish to the lighter frigates, carrying around 40 guns and weighing around 300 tons.

The bullpup design, by mounting the magazine behind the trigger, unifies the accuracy and firepower of the traditional assault rifle with the compact size of the submachine gun ( though submachine guns are still used ); examples are the French FAMAS or the British SA80.

Four twin turrets mounted 28 cm guns ; although the two centre turrets were still placed one either side of the ship, they were offset so could now fire either side.

Between 1908 and 1912 two Moltke class battlecruisers were constructed, adding an extra turret on the centre line astern, raised above the aft turret, but still using 28 cm guns.

Revolvers still remain popular in the role of back-up and off-duty guns among American law enforcement officers and security guards.

In addition to serving as backup guns, revolvers still fill the specialized niche role as a shield gun ; law enforcement personnel using a " bulletproof " ballistic shield ( Gun shield ) sometimes opt for a revolver instead of a self-loading pistol, because the slide of a pistol may strike the front of the shield when fired.

During the Second World War, the Royal Navy deployed an armed merchant vessel to patrol South Georgian and Antarctic waters against German raiders, along with two four-inch shore guns ( still present ) protecting Cumberland Bay and Stromness Bay, manned by volunteers from among the Norwegian whalers.

Single-shot designs are less complex than revolvers or magazine-fed firearms, and many single-shot designs are still produced by many manufacturers, in both cartridge-and non-cartridge varieties, from zip guns to the highest-quality shooting-match weapons.

Although non-cartridge single-shot firearms are still made in hobbyist contexts ( for example, replicas of antique guns ), this discussion focuses on newer designs employing cartridges.

Though submachine guns still have a strong hold on niche users, due to their advantage in compact size, they are facing competition from carbines and shortened assault rifles.

While not forming large batteries and employing only lighter 3-and 2-pound guns, they were still effective and inflicted serious losses to Prussian units in the Seven Years ' War.

This, in conjunction with digital fire control / ballistic computers and digital communications, allows individual guns to disperse over a wide area and still deliver rounds on target simultaneously with the other guns in their battery.

One of the first weapons designed for this role was the Madsen machine gun, which, though having a limited magazine capacity, was still more than that of the typical infantry rifle, and it gave the infantry a base of fire weapon that was more suited to maneuver warfare than the bulkier machine guns of the period, such as the MG 08.

During the 19th Century, non-industrial cultures with little access to guns were still using war shields.

Both submachine guns are still in the possession of the Berrien County Sheriff's Department in St. Joseph, Michigan.

The remainder built two new ships: the Deliverance, largely from the material stripped from the Sea Venture ( which sat high-and-dry on the reef, and was still being cannibalised in 1612 – its guns were used to arm a fort ) and the Patience.

APFSDS can still be fired from rifled guns but the sabot is of a modified design incorporating bearings to isolate the spin of the sabot in the barrel from the round itself, so far as practicable.

After the San José was captured it was found that some of her guns still had their tampions in the muzzles.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Still a quarter-mile away, the fresh clap of guns only served to increase his speed.

Greg slapped his hand across the switches that turned on the guns and gun camera and gun sight.

`` Arm your guns, Sweeneys ''.

For fifty years his guns and ham-like fists shot holes through and battered the daylights out of the enemies of law and order in the frontier towns of the West.

Led by Bill Doolin, these mobsters specialized in train robberies but as a sideline they looted stores and robbed banks, making liberal use of their guns.

They bought rustled cattle from the outlaw, kept him supplied with guns and ammunition, harbored his men in their houses.

He walked right up to the fire as though blissfully unaware of the guns covering him.

The guns are fired, the hymns are sung, and the body of Charles is carried down to the vault and laid beside the tombs of his ancestors.

Eight field guns were captured in position.

It is not in the record, but he must have galloped his horse at Peach Tree Creek when he brought up Ward's guns to save Newton's crumbling line.

Hood refused to notice anything except captured guns and colors.

The water was deep and Brownlow took his troopers across naked -- except for guns, cartridge boxes and hats.

As the civic temper rises, the more naive citizens begin to play soldier -- but the guns are real.

The older men would be there at noon, and maybe rest for a time before they took their guns off to the creek or drove down the road towards town.

It could stop Cuban re-export of guns and propaganda materials to South America.

Primary target would be shipments of tanks, guns, aviation gasoline and ammunition coming from Russia and Czechoslovakia.

The decreases, which are largely in construction and in aircraft procurement, are offset in part by increases for research and development and for procurement of other military equipment such as tanks, vehicles, guns, and electronic devices.

You've probably given a lot of Christmas-season thought to the guns in your rack, but it's not easy to decide on a new one.

A fresh crop of beginners' guns showed up in 1961, and they're good bets for your Christmas gift list if you're wondering what to get for a youngster.

The foam can be made into slab stock and cut to shape, it can be molded, it can be poured-in-place, it can be applied by spray guns, etc..

Ensign Vesole decided that he would not tarry until he heard the whispering of the bombs, and when night began to fall, he put Seaman 2/c Donald L. Norton and Seaman 1/c William A. Rochford on the guns and told them to start shooting the moment they saw an enemy silhouette.

Unsinkable slowed and stopped, hundreds of brilliant white flares swayed eerily down from the black, the air raid sirens ashore rose in a keening shriek, the anti-aircraft guns coughed and chattered -- and above it all motors roared and the bombs came whispering and wailing and crashing down among the ships at anchor at Bari.

He carried three guns -- one in the right trouser pocket, one under his left armpit, one in the left outside coat pocket -- and was equally lethal with both hands.