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Recoilless rifle. A recoilless rifle ( rifled ), recoilless launcher ( smoothbore ), or simply recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated to "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) [1] is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant gas from the rear of the weapon at the ...
Erich Ernst Paul Honecker ( German: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈhɔnɛkɐ]; 25 August 1912 – 29 May 1994) [7] was a German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany) from 1971 until shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. He held the posts of General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany ...
BRD ( German: B undes r epublik D eutschland [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant] ⓘ; English: FRG / Federal Republic of Germany) is an unofficial abbreviation for the Federal Republic of Germany, informally known in English as West Germany until 1990, and just Germany since reunification. It was occasionally used in the Federal Republic ...
The M40 recoilless rifle is a portable, crew-served 105 mm recoilless rifle made in the United States.Intended primarily as an anti-tank weapon, it could also be employed in an antipersonnel role with the use of an antipersonnel-tracer flechette round.
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The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH ( English: German Development Cooperation (GIZ) ), often simply shortened to GIZ, is the main German development agency. It is headquartered in Bonn and Eschborn and provides services in the field of international development cooperation and international education work.
Olaf Scholz ( German: [ˈoːlaf ˈʃɔlts] ⓘ; born 14 June 1958) is a German politician who has been the chancellor of Germany since 8 December 2021. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he previously served as Vice Chancellor in the fourth Merkel cabinet and as Federal Minister of Finance from 2018 to 2021.
The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, [a] is the head of the federal government of Germany, and the commander-in-chief of the German Armed Forces during wartime. [b] The chancellor is the chief executive of the Federal Cabinet and heads the executive branch.