Leo Tolstoy was influenced by it and he saw that a " great weapon for undermining ( rather than overthrowing ) the state was the refusal by individuals to cooperate with it and obey its immoral demands ".

Considered one of the most advanced weapon designs of World War II, the FG 42 influenced post-war small arms development and ultimately helped to shape the modern assault rifle concept.

The axe was the murder weapon of Saint Olaf, who was very popular in Finland and may have influenced Henry's legend.

The chance of hitting an enemy is influenced by the character's attributes, such as strength, dexterity, or intelligence as well as the character's relative weapon skill or magic skill.

The Arthurian Legends were also shown to be influenced by the Ancients, in particular the Ancient Myrddin / Merlin, ( Known as Moros, in Atlantis where he headed the Council prior to his Ascension ), who appeared to have ascended after returning from Atlantis, but later de-ascended himself to create a weapon that can destroy ascended beings, which he hoped would be used against the Ori.

While the examples are taken from the Qing Dynasty and therefore may have been influenced by the book ( which was written in the Ming Dynasty ), military officer tests ( which began in the Tang Dynasty ) have always involved lifting heavy stones of standardized weight and maneuvering them about, possibly contributing to the writer's decision to assign an unusual weight to Guan Yu's weapon.

It is likely that such practices influenced the attribution of the weapon to Guan Yu despite the lack of historical evidence for his use of it — the use of a weapon that was intentionally made too heavy to be of practical use would make the character more imposing in literature.

The plot was influenced by the case of John Aristotle Phillips, a Princeton University undergraduate, who came to prominence in 1977 as the " A-Bomb Kid " for designing a nuclear weapon in a term paper using publicly-available books and articles.

It is likely that Korean swordmaking was influenced by the various influences present in Mongol and Chinese weapon manufacture after Goryeo's submission as a Mongol vassal after 6 Mongol invasions ending in 1259.

Military commanders at the time also believed that bayonet fighting would continue to be important in musket battles, which also influenced the decision to keep the overall length of the weapon similar to the length of a pike.

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.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

We note the use of rhetoric as a weapon, the manipulation of the masses by propaganda, the `` mobilization '' of effort and resources.

This is an ethical demand which cannot be evaded or glossed over by talking exclusively of weapon superiority or even of the evil of Communism.

Both of them were overcome by the horror of the world in which they found themselves, because at last they could no longer overcome that world with the weapon of a purely lyrical art.

Tillotson had reported the man to Gansevoort and an hour later, with back turned, had been attacked by Wilson, brandishing the weapon.

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phoebus Apollo chaffs Cupid for toying with a weapon more suited to a man, whereupon Cupid wounds him with a golden dart ; simultaneously, however, Cupid shoots a leaden arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo.

The ability to modify the hardness of steel by heat treatment had been known since 1100 BC, and the rare material was valued for use in tool and weapon making.

In 1973, the Nixon Administration ordered the discontinuance by the CIA of the use of hijacking as a covert action weapon against the Castro regime.

It was of similar size, was carried on poles by priests, was not allowed to touch the ground, was revered as a voice of their God, and was used as a weapon of great power, sweeping enemies aside.

Philosophically, the tank is, by its very nature, an offensive 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.

This was to prevent the weapon from being damaged by long-distance towing across rough, stony deserts, and it was intended only to be a carrying method, with the gun unloaded for firing.

A fire unit is the smallest artillery or mortar element, consisting of one or more weapon systems, capable of being employed to execute a fire assigned by a tactical fire controller.

Artillery types can be categorised in several ways, for example by type or size of weapon or ordnance, by role or by organizational arrangements.

ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.

Archimedes, the renowned mathematician, was said to have used a burning glass ( or more likely a large number of angled hexagonal mirrors ) as a weapon in 212 BC, when Syracuse was besieged by Marcus Claudius Marcellus.

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:

The weapon may be further used to bog down an advancing army making them more vulnerable to counter attack by the defending force.

Some efforts have been partially effective in creating fear, due to the lack of visibility associated with modern biological weapon use by small organizations.

If F. tularensis were used as a weapon, the bacteria would likely be made airborne for exposure by inhalation.

The ultimate Blue Steel would be a range weapon that could be launched by the supersonic Avro 730 under development.

This WE. 177 laydown weapon supplemented the remaining modified Blue Steel missiles using a low-level penetration followed by a pop-up manoeuvre to release the weapon at Forty-eight live operational rounds were deployed on 48 Vulcan and Victor bombers plus a further five live rounds as operational spares.

These may be fixed ( as with M1 Garand, in which case cartridges are loaded from the top of the weapon, with the bolt locked back ).

During the build up prior to World War II, the military bolt-action rifle began to be superseded by the semi-automatic rifle and later assault rifles, though bolt-action rifles remained the primary weapon of most of the combatants for the duration of the war ; and many American units, especially USMC, used bolt-action ' 03 Springfields until sufficient M1 Garands were available.

In fact, the submachine gun was successfully redesigned as a simple blowback weapon ( the M1 / M1A1 ).

The requirement for the new firearm called for a compact, lightweight defensive weapon with an effective range of 300 yards, with greater range, firepower, and accuracy than the pistol, while weighing half as much as the Thompson submachine gun or M1 rifle.

In 1937, the American M1 Garand was the first semi-automatic rifle to replace its nation's bolt action rifle as the standard-issue infantry weapon.

* M1 Carbine ( also standard issued weapon of the Mash ' az – Civil Guard )

The British were interested in using this weapon to ease production in England, but after receiving the M1 they were disappointed.

For example, entering " VCTRY " results in a gang with 2 M1 Abrams tanks, 3 Goliath tanks, & Swarmers for a starting weapon.

The Brno remained as the standard Iranian infantry weapon until it was replaced by the more modern, semi-automatic, American M1 Garand rifle in 1960.

An early requirement was for the new weapon to use 105mm Fd Mk 1 ammunition, which uses the M1 shell, in training.

However, in 1968 this was changed to allow a different version of the weapon, which subsequently became the L119, to fire US 1935 pattern ( i. e. M1 ) ammunition.