The German company Rheinmetall is currently in the process of designing a new machine gun that neatly solves the barrel overheating problem. Instead of one barrel, like most machine guns, the Rheinmetall RMG 7.62 has three. Despite the multiple barrels, this is not a Gatling machine gun, it ...
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The main light machine gun used by the British army since the 1960's. A 7.62mm, belt-fed workhorse that can lay down a heavy supporting fire from an infantry platoon or mounted on vehicles. Displayed by the Forces80 re-enactment group. History at Murton - Murton Park, York, England....
The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. Following a campaign by which Lord Carnarvon had successfully brought about federation in Canada, it was thought that similar combined military and political campaigns
These include a GIAT 20mm cannon, which proved unreliable, and a 7.62mm gatling gun which was highly effective but got through ammunition too quickly.Aside from the various mounted weapons and the trooper's personal weapons, DPVs also carried :84mm LAW anti-tank rocketsM72 66mm rockets...
Dragonfly XH-1: The Dragonfly is a fictional G.I. Joe attack helicopter. Similar in proportion to the Bell AH-1 Cobra gunship with tandem seating, the Dragonfly XH-1 features a chin-mounted gatling gun and flamethrower. Armed with four Sidewinder air-to-ground missiles, two Sidewinder H....
Carronades were typically mounted on slides as opposed to wheels like regular ships’ guns. The breech end rested on two iron trucks that allowed the gun to be traversed laterally inside the ship. This design also meant that the weapon could be moved across th...
Compare this to the rapid mounted onslaughts of nomadic horse-peoples of the steppes, or the huge imperial, multicultural, and bureaucratic armies of autocratic and palatial Egypt and Persia. Western warfare in general over two-and-a-half millennia has shown a singular dynamism, a propensity to...
Losing no time, Arthur and his Combrogi (and perhaps some picked mounted men from among the northern petty-kings who owed him favors and allegiance) rode southward post-haste! At a controlled canter, a cavalry force can safely travel 60 miles in a day; and somewhat more if able to change...
Foster-Miller’s SWORDS was not the first ground robot to draw blood on the battlefield. That seems to have been the MARCBOT (Multi-Function Agile Remote-Controlled Robot), a commonly-used UGV that looks like a toy truck with a video camera mounted on a tiny antenna-like mast. Costing...