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After World War II, the USSR would adopt a similar weapon, the AK-47, which became the standard Soviet infantry weapon.
In U. S. service, the M16 assault rifle replaced the M14 as the standard infantry weapon, although the M14 continued to be used by designated marksmen.
In military use, the standard hand cannon was tremendously powerful, while also being somewhat useless due to relative inability of the gunner to aim the weapon, or control the ballistic properties of the projectile.
Notably, the MG 34 remained the standard co-axial weapon for Nazi German vehicles through the Second World War.
Since even the unholstered weapon is indistinguishable to most observers from a standard pistol, this may lessen attention from media or potential attackers as to the security measures that are in place.
Though it was never widely used as a standard weapon, the woldo saw action on many fronts and was considered by many Korean troops to be a versatile weapon.
These modes include a standard deathmatch mode, and the similar " Score Mode ", which assigns different points depending on the weapon and way that a kill was done.
Other army equipment may include the FN FAL ( standard infantry rifle ), the RPK / RPD standard infantry Support weapon, the L85 ( only used by special forces ), and the Type 69 RPG.
Other talents included standard fantasy skills such as literacy, alertness or weapon proficiency.
The assault rifle, a late war development incorporating many features of the rifle and submachine gun, became the standard postwar infantry weapon for most armed forces.
Today, the OH-58D ( R ) Kiowa Warrior and AH-64D Apache Longbow, as well as the Marine Corp's AH-1 Cobra, carry the Hydra rocket launcher standard on its weapon pylons.
Car Wars uses a number of standard six-sided dice to determine the outcomes of weapon fire, damage and vehicle control during the game.
* 1950s ( early ): NATO adopted sarin as a standard chemical weapon, and both the U. S. S. R and the United States produced sarin for military purposes.
Although there was extensive debate over the effectiveness of weapons such as the sabre and lance, the sabre remained the standard weapon of cavalry for mounted action in most armies until World War I ( 1914 – 18 ).
When the Soviet Union was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1941 the Mosin – Nagant 91 / 30 was the standard issue weapon of Soviet troops.
In addition, the weapon positions and drill commands that were originally devised to standardize carrying, loading and firing a flintlock weapon remain the standard for drill and display ( see manual of arms ).
Fashioned as a two-handed weapon — somewhat like a submachine gun with a massive barrel — it is clearly more powerful than the standard Supergun sidearm, and visually more impressive.
It was highly advanced for the 1970s, combining in the same weapon the bullpup configuration, a polymer housing, dual vertical grips, an optical sight as standard, and a modular design.
The Lee-Enfield was the standard issue weapon to rifle companies of the British Army and other Commonwealth nations in both the First and Second World Wars ( these Commonwealth nations included Canada, Australia and South Africa, among others ).
Until the 1950s guns firing ballistic munitions were the standard weapon ; guided missiles then became dominant, except at the very shortest ranges.
By the start of World War I, the 77 mm had become the standard German weapon, and came mounted on a large traverse that could be easily picked up on a wagon for movement.

standard and Roman
Where the Roman model ( like most modern Japanese ) has 4 plus 1 bead per decimal place, the standard suanpan has 5 plus 2, allowing use with a hexadecimal numeral system.
* Aquila ( Roman ), a Roman military standard
As was standard for new Roman cities, Hadrian placed the city's main Forum at the junction of the main cardo and decumanus, now the location for the ( smaller ) Muristan.
Two versions of Blackwood are common: " standard " Blackwood, developed by Easley, and " Roman key card " or " RKC " Blackwood, named for the Italian team which invented it.
The loss of the battle standard, or aquila, was indicative of a crushing defeat and a serious affront to Roman national pride.
His economic program, which was rigorously efficient, maintained the Roman currency at a standard it would never again achieve.
Basileus appears not to have been used exclusively in the meaning of " emperor " ( and specifically, the Roman / Byzantine emperor ) before the 7th century, although it was a standard informal designation of the Emperor in the Greek-speaking East.
The Roman tribune Lucius Appuleius Saturninus incited the slaves to insurrection by displaying a pileus as if it were a standard.
Examples include the Achaemenid battle standard Derafsh Kaviani, and the standards of the Roman legions such as the eagle of Augustus Caesar's Xth legion, or the dragon standard of the Sarmatians ; the latter was let fly freely in the wind, carried by a horseman, but judging from depictions it was more similar to an elongated dragon kite than to a simple flag.
In the New Testament period, the only golden coin, the aureus, was worth approximately 3, 200 of the smallest bronze coin, the lepton ( translated into Latin as minuti ); while the Roman standard silver coin, the denarius, was worth 128 leptons.
In the early Middle Ages, following the fall of the Roman Empire, standard medical knowledge was based chiefly upon surviving Greek and Roman texts, preserved in monasteries and elsewhere.
The most characteristic differences, for instance, between Roman Italian and Milanese Italian are the gemination of initial consonants and the pronunciation of stressed " e ", and of " s " in some cases: e. g. va bene " all right ": is pronounced by a Roman ( and by any standard-speaker ), by a Milanese ( and by any speaker whose native dialect lies to the north of La Spezia-Rimini Line ); a casa " at home " is for Roman and standard, for Milanese and generally northern.
Worship of the icon as somehow entirely separate from its prototype is expressly forbidden by the Seventh Ecumenical Council ; standard teaching in the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches alike conforms to this principle.
The reverse depicts an armed Roman soldier bearing a military standard in one hand and subduing a captive with the other, a reference to the military strength of the Roman Empire, and spells out VIRTVS EXERCITVS ROMANORVM, " the bravery / virtue of the Roman army ".
This was standard practice for " new " Roman citizens.
He adopted Greek dactylic hexameter, which became the standard verse form for Roman epics.
The subjects that would become the standard " Liberal Arts " in Roman and Medieval times already comprised the basic curriculum in the enkuklios paideia or " education in a circle " of late Classical and Hellenistic Greece.
The Roman pound and ounce were both defined in terms of different sized collections of the same common mass standard, the carob seed.

standard and imperial
Another imperial usurper, Magnus Maximus, raised the standard of revolt at Segontium ( Caernarfon ) in north Wales in 383, and crossed the English Channel.
During those same years, the most commonly used standard reference conditions for people using the imperial or U. S. customary systems was and 14. 696 psi ( 1 atm ) because it was almost universally used by the oil and gas industries worldwide.
He sends the imperial standard to Ravenna.
The Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Tan ( d. 110 BCE ) and his son Sima Qian ( 145 – 86 BCE ) established the standard model for all of imperial China's Standard Histories, such as the Book of Han written by Ban Biao ( 3 – 54 CE ), his son Ban Gu ( 32 – 92 CE ), and his daughter Ban Zhao ( 45 – 116 CE ).
* Constantine I at Trier orders the minting of a new coin, the solidus, in an effort to offset the declining value of the denarius and bring stability to the imperial currency by restoring a gold standard.
The flag of the Patria Vieja would wave again after Carrera's return to power 23 July 1814 until the Battle of Rancagua ( 1 – 2 October ) where the royalist victory ended the patriot government and began the Reconquista ( or Reconquest ) from 1814 to 1817, restoring the imperial standard.
: Let its feet be tufted with plentiful hair that its footfall may be soundless and for its standard of pomp let it rival the whick of the Tibetans ' yak, which is flourished to protect the imperial litter from flying insects.
From 1976 to 1979, during the existence of the Central African Empire, an imperial standard was designed for Emperor Bokassa I's personal use.
The standard was light green in color, with a gold-colored eagle in the centre superimposed over a 20-pointed gold star, inspired by the eagle on the imperial standard of Napoleon I.
Edwin Pulleyblank has argued that the tables contain enough evidence to reconstruct the speech of that later period, which he calls this language Late Middle Chinese in contrast to the Early Middle Chinese of the Qieyun, and argues that it was the standard speech of the imperial capital Chang ' an in the late Tang dynasty.
He further helped systemize the written Chinese language by promulgating as the imperial standard the small seal script which had been in use in the state of Qin all along.
The imperial standard displayed the sultan's tughra, often on a pink or bright red background.
Sweden's lack of manufacturing capability at the time resulted in her cavalry lacking in armor and wheellock pistols ; the Swedish cuirassiers were only armored up to the standard of the typical imperial harquebusier, except for a few units raised in Livonia and recruited among the German mercenaries, while their Finnish light horse were often completely unarmored.
Older sources ( among them Felix's own memoirs ) always maintained that the murder of Rasputin was Felix's idea, and that Dmitri was only involved because he owned a car that could move unimpeded through the strictly controlled city of St. Petersburg in wartime because of its imperial standard.
The Type was numbered 97 as an abbreviation of the imperial year 2597, translating to the year 1937 in standard Gregorian calendar.
The Shih Tzu is a toy dog ; however, some refer to the Shih Tzu as teacup, toy, toi, pint-size, pocket, imperial, IMP, Chinese imperial dog, CID, mini, miniature or standard.
The imperial standard yard of 1855 was found to be unstable and shortening by measurable amounts ( Barbrow & Judson 1976, 16 ).
In his later career he worked on establishing a standard of length for imperial measures.
The traditional " double " size standard among English speaking countries, based on the imperial measurement is 4 ' 6 " by 6 ' 3 " () but the sizes for other bed types tend to vary.
Artemon, along with mainsail and topsail, developed into the standard rig of seagoing vessels in imperial times, complemented by a mizzen on the largest freighters.
In Asia and Europe, while imperial is readily available, metric diameters are standard.
In response to the call, hardened veterans and young volunteers from all parts of Persia marched in large numbers to join the imperial standard and marched to Nihawand for the last titanic struggle between the forces of the Caliphate and Sassanid Persia.

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