Following the retirement of the F-14 by the US, the weapon's only current operator is Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force.

Most automatic weapons are classed as long guns ( as the ammunition used is of similar type as for rifles, and the recoil of the weapon's rapid fire is better controlled with two hands ), but handgun-sized automatic weapons also exist, generally in the " submachine gun " or " machine pistol " class.

The MAC-10 is "... known on the streets as ' Spray and pray ' because of its popularity in drive by shootings and its ability to fire up to 1000 rounds of ammunition every minute " ( sic ); gun websites claim that the nickname is also a reference to the weapon's inaccuracy.

In addition, the cylinder cross-section is hexagonal instead of circular, further reducing the weapon's profile.

Players of R-Type sometimes qualify the weapon's name with words such as ' Pod ', or ' Unit ', or even ' Droid ', but officially it is simply a Force.

Wrapping the weapon's fissile core in a neutron reflector ( which is standard on all nuclear explosives ) can dramatically reduce the critical mass.

The presence of too much of the < sup > 238 </ sup > U isotope inhibits the runaway nuclear chain reaction that is responsible for the weapon's power.

The " usual " nuclear weapon yield — expressed as kT TNT equivalent — is not a measure of a neutron weapon's destructive power.

The M198 is a towed howitzer that is transported tail first, with the cannon resting above the weapon's wheels.

The term of art is not meant to connote anything about whether the weapon's barrel had received the further machining step of rifling the barrel, so there are two broad classifications: rifled muzzleloaders and smooth bore muzzleloaders.

Bolt action is a type of firearm action in which the weapon's bolt is operated manually by the opening and closing of the breech ( barrel ) with a small handle, most commonly placed on the right-hand side of the weapon ( for right-handed users ).

As a result the bolt-action term is often reserved for more modern types of rotating bolt-designs when talking about a specific weapon's type of action, however both straight-pull and rotating bolt rifles are types of bolt-action rifles.

When a hit is delivered, the attacker rolls a d10, adds the weapon's attack bonus, and subtracts the target's armor rating.

The weapon's receiver is by itself considered to be a regulated firearm.

As they were both seeking to solve similar problems, it is reasonable to expect that each weapon's respective engineers approached these problems similarly but independently, unaware of the developments of their counterparts.

The reflected laser light from the target is then detected by the seeker head of the weapon, which sends signals to the weapon's control surfaces to guide it toward the designated point.

However, if the designator is turned off, the laser spot moved, the laser signal is blocked ( for example by cloud or smoke ), the weapon's accuracy will be greatly reduced.

Another advantage in antitank applications is that the backward-looking guidance system does not interfere with the process of jet formation of HEAT charges, thus maximizing weapon's effectiveness.

Time Lords can regenerate twelve times, but the weapon's energy prevents his twelfth regeneration, so it seems the Doctor is permanently dead.

However, if the same weapon's barrel is " cut down " ( shortened ), as is common in cavalry and jungle-combat adapted versions, the bullet would often leave the barrel before the powder was completely consumed, resulting in a bright flash from the muzzle.

The bolt moving rearward also compresses a strong recoil spring which subsequently returns the bolt forward, stripping a fresh round from the weapon's magazine and forcing it into the chamber in the process.

The weapon's muzzle brake can also be replaced with a blank firing adaptor for use with blanks during training exercises.

Aside from each weapon's quality, its effectiveness is also influenced by the character's skill with that type of weapon, and the speed of the player relative to the target: for example, a javelin thrown while running or riding a horse will be potentially more damaging than a javelin thrown while standing still.

This same extended trigger was also one source of the weapon's problems as it allowed accidental discharges of a loaded weapon if caught by tree branches, gear, or anything else capable of overcoming the 6 to 11 pound trigger pull.

To achieve a particular DE, planners select a bomb type based on that particular weapon's damage mechanism-blast / fragmentation or incendiary, for example.

These weapons can be considered carbines, while rifles with barrels of 508 mm ( 20 inches ) or more are generally not considered carbines unless specifically named so, and depending on the weapon's power.

The weapon's seeker can lock onto a target at ranges of up to 15 to 17 km ( 9. 4 to 10. 6 miles ), depending on visibility.

The Thompson submachine guns had been in development at approximately the same time as the Bergman and Beretta, but development was put on hold in 1917, when the US and the weapon's designer ( Thompson ) entered the war.

A mounted knight would secure the lance by holding it with one hand and tucking it under the armpit ( the couched lance technique ) This allowed all the momentum of the horse and knight to be focused on the weapon's tip, whilst still retaining accuracy and control.

Players can sometimes use suppressors on their weapons to prevent this, although the suppressor will reduce the weapon's effective range.

This design removed the need to lower by hand a lit match into the weapon's flash pan and made it possible to have both hands free to keep a firm grip on the weapon at the moment of firing, and, more importantly, to keep both eyes on the target.

This problem was largely eliminated by the introduction of nipple partitions, evident on later percussion revolvers, which largely shielded the percussion caps on neighbouring chambers from the flash struck by the weapon's hammer during firing.

As a footnote in the weapon's long history, an M1934 was used in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi on 30 January 1948.

This had the added advantage of minimising the stress on the weapon's mounting, so that deck reinforcement was not needed, and the weapon could easily be retrofitted to any convenient place on a ship.

The original design did not anticipate its being carried up jungle-covered mountains on men's backs, but such was the weapon's popularity that men were generally content to man-pack it to all manner of difficult locations.

As X-Men proceed with their planned attack on Breakworld weapon's installation, they are surrounded by Breakworld ships and Scott is forced to take a single battle cruiser to draw attention from the main team, being shot down and apparently dying in the process ( with Emma feeling Scott's life flash before his eyes ).

A selective fire firearm has at least one semi – automatic and one automatic mode, which is activated by means of a selector which varies depending on the weapon's design.

Meanwhile Lex Luthor activates a temporal displacement weapon on Earth, combining the weapon's energies with the Apokolips energy to create a temporal boom tube.

When a blank round is fired, the system sends out a laser beam, which score " kills " or " injuries " on any soldier or vehicle in what would be the path of the weapon's projectile.

The primary theoretical advantage of such a weapon is that antimatter and matter collisions, though significantly limited by neutrino losses, still convert a larger fraction of the weapon's mass into explosive energy than a fusion reaction in a hydrogen bomb, which is on the order of only 0. 7 %.

A postwar U. S. Army evaluation reported on the weapon's cold-weather shortcomings, and noted complaints of failure to stop heavily clothed North Korean and Chinese troops at close range after multiple hits.

When designed to be suspension-mounted on a hardpoint on a typical post-WW II aircraft, gun pods are inherently less accurate than integral guns, or the type of " conformal " gun pods that are faired smoothly into or onto the nearby surfaces of an aircraft, because the " hardpoint " mounting is necessarily less rigid, so that the weapon's recoil produces more deflection.