It can be wasteful to try to avoid all waste. Efficiency is also a trap when the opposition copies it. Take the late 19th Century, French 75 millimeter artillery piece. It was a masterpiece of lethal design. This piece could fire a shell every four seconds. But that wasn't so unusual....
Weapons like heavy machine guns or artillery pieces are examples of crew-served weapons. A sniper rifle is also considered a crew-served weapon. Though it only takes one person to fire a sniper rifle, it really takes two soldiers to get the most out of the sniper-rifle weapon system. ...
In his Times opinion piece, Boot suggests that using the MOAB was a sign of desperation. "When the enemy becomes too powerful, as it did in Vietnam, then it becomes necessary to call in air and artillery strikes," he writes. "That was not a sign of progress; it was a sign, in ...
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in Trivial Pursuit: Classic Edition, you move your player piece to the center of the board immediately after collecting six wedges. However, in Master Edition, you must roll and move to get the piece there yourself, and you must roll theexactnumber needed to finish your turn on the center...
Without the ability to craft, your DnD Artificer is going to miss out on some of their most powerful abilities. Speak to your Dungeon Master about crafting before rolling up an Artificer, and about artillery if you're planning to subclass for cannon-based fun. ...
How many people are needed to load and fire a cannon? Each cannon would be manned bytwo gunners, six soldiers, and four officers of the artillery. The right gunner was to prime the piece and load it with powder, while the left gunner would fetch the powder from the magazine and keep ...
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to deflect sword blows; they offered no protection against bullets or shell fragments.But as the war bogged down into brutal trench warfare and both sides began mercilessly bombarding each other with artillery shells, the rate of severe head wounds began to soar...
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