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M134 Minigun. 85 lb (39 kg), 41 lb (19 kg) lightweight mod. The M134 Minigun is an American 7.62×51mm NATO six-barrel rotary machine gun with a high rate of fire (2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute). [2] It features a Gatling -style rotating barrel assembly with an external power source, normally an electric motor.
18 km (11 mi) 203 mm howitzer M1931 (B-4) (Russian: 203-мм гаубица обр. 1931 г. (Б-4), GRAU index: 52-G-625) was a 203 mm (8 inch) Soviet high-power heavy howitzer. During the Second World War, it was under the command of the Stavka 's strategic reserve. It was nicknamed "Stalin's sledgehammer" by German soldiers.
The modern definition refers to "heavy caliber" machine guns, pioneered by the German Empire 's MG 18 TuF which was a Maxim derivative chambered in 13.2×92mmSR fielded near the end of World War I. They are designed to provide increased effective range, penetration and stopping power against vehicles, aircraft and light fortifications beyond ...
The M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon), [4][5][6] formally the Light Machine Gun, 5.56 mm, M249, is the United States Armed Forces adaptation of the Belgian FN Minimi, a light machine gun manufactured by FN Herstal (FN.) The M249 SAW is manufactured in the United States by the subsidiary FN Manufacturing LLC, a company in Columbia, South ...
12 cm felthaubits/m32. Norway. World War II. 120. 120 mm howitzer Model 1901. German Empire. Balkan wars, World War I, Finnish Civil War, Hungarian–Romanian War. 120. 120 mm Krupp howitzer M1905.
Technical specifications. The GAU-19/A is designed to accept standard NATO .50 caliber M9-linked ammunition. The rate of fire is selectable to be either 1,000 or 2,000 rounds per minute. The Humvee armament kit version fires at 1,300 rounds per minute. The average recoil force when firing is 382 lb/ft, 495 lb/ft or 629 lb/ft depending on firing ...
38,000 metres (42,000 yd) (AP) Schwerer Gustav (English: Heavy Gustav) was a German 80-centimetre (31.5 in) railway gun. It was developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in Rügenwalde as siege artillery for the explicit purpose of destroying the main forts of the French Maginot Line, the strongest fortifications in existence at the time.
Sep. 8—COLUMBUS — File this under things you didn't expect to hear. After Ohio State's 56-0 win over Western Michigan on Saturday Ohio State quarterback Will Howard said he gets a bigger ...