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• Air Defense Anti-Tank System
  ...l Forward Area Air-Defense System [FAADS<nowiki>]</nowiki>], Federation of American Scientists Web site. Accessed 2 January 2007.</ref> program under the desi The [[Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle]] (MMEV) will feature a wide array of weapons for different engagements. Its direct fire with low cost rockets will be ab
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• 9M133 Kornet
  ...t-14.htm) |title=Kornet (AT-14) |accessdate=2008-11-08 |work=Federation of American Scientists |date=1999-06-19}}</ref>. ...d service in the Russian army in 1994<ref>http://www.deagel.com/Anti-Armor-Weapons-and-Missiles/Kornet_a001010001.aspx</ref>, its export designation is the Ko
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• ERYX
  |era=Cold War, modern .../row/eryx.htm|title=Eryx|author=|date=|accessdate=|publisher=Federation of American scientists}}</ref> Canadian industries, including Simtran and Solartron Sys
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• XM307 Advanced Crew Served Weapon
  *[http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/weapons/zone2/xm307/xm307.html Discovery Website - XM307 video clip] .../world.guns.ru/grenade/gl24-e.htm XM307 ACSW Advanced Crew-Served Weapon - Modern Firearms]
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• Ag m/42
  ...red in all for the [[Swedish Army]]. This was a relatively small number of weapons and the standard infantry rifle remained the 6.5&nbsp;mm [[bolt action]] m/ ...never modified to the later Ag m/42B version. The serial numbers of these weapons were between 22000 and 25000 (see Samlarforum.nu). However, in the Netherla
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• Autocannon
  ...by aircraft in air-to-air combat, where the target dwell time is short and weapons are typically operated in brief bursts. ...ment of self-contained primers and [[smokeless powder]]s that rapid-firing weapons were practical.
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...eapons without any supporting evidence. It should be pointed out these two weapons are quite different from each other and share few, if any, features. ...r the land based versions were immediate, starting with an order for eight weapons from Belgium in August 1935, and followed by a flood of orders from other f
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• Carl Gustav recoilless rifle
  ...タフ」|accessdate=2009-11-04|language=Japanese}}</ref><ref name="JSDF weapons">[http://www13.plala.or.jp/aconit/e-nerima_soubi.html "Exhibision (sic) of ...In US service it is officially known as the ''RAWS'' or ''Ranger Antitank Weapons System'', but often called ''the Gustav'' or simply the ''Carl Johnson'' by
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• Gatling gun
  ...ast=Chambers|publisher=HighBeam Research Inc.|work=The Oxford Companion to American Military History|year=2000|accessdate=2009-11-24}}</ref> ...railleuse]]'' by the [[Belgian Army]], the Gatling gun was designed by the American inventor [[Richard Jordan Gatling|Dr. Richard J. Gatling]] in 1861 and pate
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• Hotchkiss gun
  ...ed in [[Cuba]] for the attack on [[San Juan Hill]] and in the [[Philippine-American War]]. It was also used at the [[Wounded Knee Massacre]]. ...tor gunboats of the Royal Navy, not being entirely replaced by more modern weapons until 1945.
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• M242 Bushmaster
  ...ace it started in 1972 at [[Hughes Aircraft]] as the '''Vehicle Rapid-Fire Weapons System-Successor''', or '''VRFWS-S'''. This was essentially a power-driven To date, more than 10,000 weapons are in service. One of the major reasons for this popularity is the extreme
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...itle=Skylighters, The Web Site of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion: AAA Weapons in Focus - The M2 .50-Caliber Machine Gun |publisher=Skylighters.org |date= ...50"/90 (12.7 mm) M2 Browning Machine Gun'' (2007) [http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_50cal-M2_MG.htm Article]</ref> The AN/M2 aircraft gun has a cyclic ra
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• M61 Vulcan
  ...}</ref> Although European designers were moving towards heavier 30&nbsp;mm weapons for better hitting power, the U.S. initially concentrated on a powerful .60 ...ors= |date=April 23, 2000 |year= |month= |work= |publisher=[[Federation of American Scientists]] |pages= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>
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• Mark 46 torpedo
  *[http://www.navysite.de/weapons/mk-46.htm Unofficial U.S. Navy Site: MK-46 Torpedo] [[Category:Cold War weapons of the United States]]
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• Remote weapon system
  ...[[Common Remotely Operated Weapon System|CROWS system]] is being fitted to American [[Humvee]]s and the [[Thales Group|Thales]] [[SWARM]] for [[Bushmaster IMV] [[Category:Vehicle weapons|*RWS]]
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• Type 730 CIWS
  ...pose is defence against [[anti-ship missile]]s, and other precision guided weapons. However it can also be employed against fixed/rotary wing aircraft, ships ...o be unlikely, since the Russian Gatling gun only has 6 barrels. Like the American Gatling gun, the Chinese Gatling gun can only last a single minute if fired
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• Type 91 torpedo
  ...y out in obsolete biplanes or planes with fixed landing gears, whereas the modern, fast Nakajima B5N as used by the IJN carrier strike force's 1st Air Flotil ...1942, B5N torpedo-bomber units of ''The 5th Air Flotilla'' penetrated the American defenses at 0910[JST]<ref>Carrier Zuikaku Action Report</ref>, swooped to [
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• Type 93 torpedo
  {{redirect|Long Lance|the American Indian writer|Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance}} ...(IJN). It is commonly referred to as the ''"Long Lance"'' torpedo by most modern English-language naval historians, a nickname given it after the war by [[S
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• Aerogel
  ...shatter like glass—a property known as ''[[friability]]''; although more modern variations do not suffer from this.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} Des ...F-3433709C76B127DF Heavy Metal Filter Made Largely from Air.] ''Scientific American'', 2007-07-26. Retrieved on 2007-08-05.</ref> Research is ongoing, and meta
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• List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords)
  ...the [[Yayoi period]] from about 300&nbsp;BC to 300&nbsp;AD, iron tools and weapons such as knives, axes, swords or spears, were introduced to Japan from Korea ..., and around the mid-Kofun period swords evolved from thrusting to cutting weapons.<ref name="nagayama-p12"/><ref name="nagayama-p12"/> Ancient swords were al
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