Historically the custom-built fully armored assault guns usually mounted the gun or howitzer in a fully enclosed casemate on a tank chassis.

Soviet KV-2, an assault gun variant of the KV-1 ( tank ) | KV-1 tank with an oversized howitzer mount replacing the turret, 1940

The primary German assault gun was the Sturmgeschütz III ( StuG III ).

Armed with a high-velocity dual-purpose 75 mm gun, late production StuG III variants blurred the line between assault guns and tank destroyers.

As the amount of German armour encountered by the Allies decreased, especially in Italy, a number of American tank destroyer units were used in the assault gun role for infantry support.

In the post-WWII era, vehicles fitting into an " assault gun " category were developed as a light-weight, air-deployable, direct fire weapon for use with airborne troops.

The Soviets went on to develop an improved air-droppable assault gun, the ASU-85, which served through the 1980s, while their SU-100 remained in service with Communist countries, including Vietnam and Cuba, years after WW2.

The only vehicle with the qualities of an assault gun to be fielded after the removal of the M50 and M56 from service within the US military was the M551 Sheridan.

The Sheridan's gun was a low-velocity weapon suitable in the assault role, but with the addition of the Shillelagh missile could double in the anti-tank role as well.

It is important, however, to remember that the Sheridan was not developed as an assault gun, but as a light reconnaissance vehicle.

Currently there appears to be a move toward wheeled vehicles fitting a " tank destroyer " or " assault gun " role, with the US testing the M1128 Stryker MGS.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

Another class of carbine is a semi-automatic version of a submachine gun, with an extended barrel, usually just over 406 mm ( 16 inches ) long, which will escape ban by some " assault weapon " legislation.

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.

Some of their products include the MP5 submachine gun, G3 automatic rifle, the G36 assault rifle, the HK 416, the MP7 personal defense weapon, the USP series of handguns, and the high-precision PSG1 sniper rifle.

Small arms reported in service included TT pistol, Browning Hi-Power, Beretta M12, FN P90, FN FAL, SKS, AK-47, AKM and AK-103 assault rifles, the FN F2000, Soviet RPD machine gun, RPK machine gun, PK machine guns, DShK heavy machine gun, KPV heavy machine guns, SG-43 Goryunov, and a number of RPG-type and anti-aircraft missile systems: RPG-2, RPG-7, 9K32 Strela-2.

Therefore, supporters of gun rights generally consider the use of the phrase " assault weapon " to be pejorative when used to describe these civilian firearms, and this term is seldom used outside of the United States in this context.

One was created for the film using the chassis of a Czech-built Panzer 38 ( t ) tank similar to the construction of the original Marder III ; the other was a cosmetically modified Swedish SAV m / 43 assault gun, which also used the 38 ( t ) chassis.

Today the submachine gun has mostly been replaced by the assault rifle for military use.

Soviet ISU-152 heavy assault gun.

After the end of World War II, the assault gun fell from use with a general trend towards a single heavy gun-equipped vehicle, the main battle tank.

But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

In law, assault is a crime that involves causing a victim to apprehend violence.

Thus throwing a rock at someone for the purpose of hitting him is a battery if the rock in fact strikes the person and is an assault if the rock misses.

Aggravated assault is, in some jurisdictions, a stronger form of assault, usually using a deadly weapon.

The latter is often referred to as either vehicular assault or aggravated assault with a motor vehicle.

In some jurisdictions, most notably England, it is not a defense where the degree of injury is severe, as long as there is no legally recognized good reason for the assault.

In Scottish Law, consent is not a defense for assault.

In the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, corporal punishment administered to children by their parent or legal guardian is not legally considered to be assault unless it is deemed to be excessive or unreasonable.

This defense is not universal: in New Zealand ( for example ) homeowners have been convicted of assault for attacking burglars.

It can be an assault to “ tap ”, “ pinch ”, “ push ”, or direct another such minor action toward another, but an accidental application of force is not an assault.

In response, " Pirata Buchar " ( as he was referred to by the Californios ) ordered an assault on the Mission, sending some 140 men and two or three violentos ( light howitzer cannon ) to take the needed supplies by force.

* KV-2 ( 334 ) – A heavy assault tank with the M-10 152 mm howitzer, the KV-2 was produced at the same time as the KV-1.

The M45 howitzer tank variant was only used by the assault gun platoon of the 6th Medium Tank Battalion, and these six vehicles were withdrawn by January 1951.

A prototype assault gun, armed with the 122 mm howitzer and built on the German Sturmgeschütz III chassis was designated SG-122.

The ISU-122 was used as a powerful assault gun, a self-propelled howitzer, and a long-range tank destroyer, the same as with the SU-152 and ISU-152 heavy self-propelled guns in general.

Usually they engaged the enemy in offensive skirmishes before an assault of mounted knights.

Katyusha rocket launchers were mounted on many platforms during World War II, including on trucks, artillery tractors, tanks, and armoured trains, as well as on naval and riverine vessels as assault support weapons, Soviet engineers also mounted single Katyusha rockets on lengths of railway track to serve in urban combat.

* Gewehraufsatz 97 40mm grenade launcher ( mounted under " Sturmgewehr 90 " assault rifle for grenadiers and fusiliers )

In some rare circumstances, such towers were mounted on ships to assault the coastal wall of a city: at the siege of Cyzicus during the Third Mithridatic War, for example, towers were used in conjunction with more conventional siege weapons.

They also work better at larger diameters, and a large-diameter low-velocity gun makes for an excellent assault gun that can be mounted on light or medium-weight vehicles.

Sweden and Norway use the Hellfire for coastal defense, and Norway has conducted tests with Hellfire launchers on Protector M151 remotely-controlled weapon systems mounted on the Stridsbåt 90 coastal assault boat.

The assault on the Iraqi positions on the Al Faw peninsula consisted of a DPV mounted SEAL force at the refinery and port with a larger force of US Marines from the 5th Regimental Combat Team of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force attacking Iraqi positions farther north in the Rumaila oil fields.

This distinguishes between small arms ( revolvers and self-loading pistols, rifles and carbines, submachine guns, assault rifles, and light machine guns ), which are weapons designed for personal use, and light weapons ( heavy machine guns, hand-held under-barrel and mounted grenade launchers, portable anti-aircraft guns, portable anti-tanks guns, recoilless rifles, portable launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems, and mortars of calibres less than 100 mm ), which are designed for use by several persons serving as a unit.

The Japanese army mounted its assault on the Nanking walls from multiple directions ; the SEF ’ s 16th Division attacked three gates on the eastern side, the 6th Division of the 10A launched its offensive on the western walls, and the SEF ’ s 9th Division advanced into the area in-between.

The knights would remain mounted and act as scouts, flank defense, and in rare instances, the main frontal assault force.

The Japanese army mounted its assault on the Nanking walls from multiple directions.

On August 20, 1794, Wayne mounted an assault on the Indian confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, in modern Maumee, Ohio ( just south of present-day Toledo ), which was a decisive victory for the U. S. forces, ending the war.

At dawn on September 17, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank.

Custer led a mounted charge of the 1st Michigan Cavalry, breaking the back of the Confederate assault.

The place became a battlefield again in the early days of the Civil War when Confederate troops mounted an assault on Battery Jameson, Fort Lincoln, now northeast Washington, D. C., which was one of a number Union defensive forts built around the nation's capital to protect it from capture.

On September 18, Price's army mounted an assault.

Part of Moreau's army under MG Jean-Charles Abbatucci mounted an assault crossing over the Rhine at Kehl opposite Strasbourg on 24 June.

Totila, apparently hoping to take his enemy by surprise, launched a sudden large-scale mounted assault upon the Byzantine center.

Despite the misgivings of both Kesselring and von Mackensen, a further assault was mounted on February 29, this time on LXXVI Panzer Corps ' front around Cisterna.

While they varied in design and appearance, cataphracts were universally the heavy assault force of most nations that deployed them, acting as " shock troops " to deliver the bulk of an offensive manoeuvre, while being supported by various forms of infantry and archers ( both mounted and unmounted ).

Desperate rebels mounted an assault against them on April 4 and were forced to withdraw.

Alexander then mounted his beloved horse Bucephalus at the head of his Companion cavalry and led a direct assault against Darius.