"The [Winchester] Ringblaster® Industrial tool is a heavy-duty shooting apparatus that is designed for multiple industrial applications. The industrial tool is coupled with our specialized Ringblaster® Mount system which has a precision weight balanced construction that helps maintain bull’s-eye accuracy, with substantially...
This is a prototype or one-off over/under sporting shotgun, made in a bullpup configuration. It is basically two long slabs of wood clamshell around a pair of barrels, with the action at the very end in the stock. The breech rotates up to open, activated by a lever on the surface of the buttplate. That’s certainly strange...
CZ Tarantule was supposed to be used in cases where explosives couldn’t be used due to a high risk of collateral damage. The Tarantule uses a modified .50 caliber blank round loaded from the breech of the 18mm caliber smoothbore barrel to propel the 70ml of water which is poured down the muzzle and sealed in the bore via a...
This less lethal launcher from UMX, a sub brand of the German company Umarex, has a built in range finder tied to a laser rangefinder that regulates an electronically controlled valve to ensure a projectile is launched pneumatically to hit a target at no greater than 30 joules of impact force....
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2024/01/16/hot-gat-fudd-crap-khyber-pass-ill-bid-last/
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Figured this might be of interest to Star Wars fans and appropriate given it's May 4th.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2024/ukraine-adopts-turkish-bts-12-shotgun-for-anti-drone-warfare...
Found this really small channel but they have great production quality.
Video of it in use [1:00] (no audio): https://youtu.be/YoOaJclkSZg...
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“Since a regulation size football weighs 14 ounces, it was considered feasible to make a shaped charge grenade within this weight limitation. In addition, most US troops are familiar with throwing footballs,” according to the Army’s test report for the weapon....
The barrel is octagonal, slightly swamped and with a plain muzzle. Simple triangular foresight and a single backsight decorated by a concave forward section. The barrel is fastened to the stock by four pierced lugs underneath. On the upper surface of the barrel near the breech is a mon inlaid in silver in the form of a circle...
Armour presented to King James I by Tokugawa Hidetada. Possibly originally for Takeda Katsuyori and modified by Iwai Yozaemon for presentation in about 1610....
>The spear has a large, leaf-shaped blade with pronounced medial ridge and a short hexagonal socket pierced to receive the bolt of a toggle. The bolt ends in a loop from which the toggle is hinged....
The Experimental Model 2 submachine gun was a pre–World War II Japanese experimental submachine gun chambered in the 8mm Nambu round....
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14428803
This test was run by a company named MDT Sporting Goods. They recorded their test and it'll be linked at the end of the post....
Designed by Gerry Fox in the early 1970s, this carbine saw production sequentially as the Fox Carbine, the TAC-1, and the XF-7 Wasp, as it went through several different manufacturers. It is an open bolt, semiauto carbine sold in both 9mm Parabellum and .45 ACP – and you could get caliber conversion kits consisting of a bolt...
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/HistoryArtifacts/t/952584
The M-28 or M-29 Davy Crockett Weapon System was a tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun for firing the M388 nuclear projectile, armed with the W54 nuclear warhead, that was deployed by the United States during the Cold War. It was the first project assigned to the United States Army Weapon Command in Rock Island,...
