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  2. Gun safe - Wikipedia

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    An example (open and closed) of a typical gun safe. A gun safe is a safe designed for storing one or more firearms and/or ammunitions.Gun safes are primarily used to prevent access by unauthorized or unqualified persons (such as children), for burglary protection and, in more capable safes, to protect the contents from damage by flood, fire or other natural disasters.

  3. Cannon - Wikipedia

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    A cannon is a large- caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant. Gunpowder ("black powder") was the primary propellant before the invention of smokeless powder during the late 19th century. Cannons vary in gauge, effective range, mobility, rate of fire, angle of fire ...

  4. History of cannons - Wikipedia

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    To counter the threat of the Russian T-34s, another, more powerful 50 mm gun was introduced, [158] only to give way to a larger 75 mm cannon. [159] Despite the improved guns, production of the Panzer III was ended in 1943, as the tank still could not match the T-34, and was, furthermore, being replaced by the Panzer IV and Panther tanks . [ 160 ]

  5. List of cannon projectiles - Wikipedia

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    Essential parts of a cannon: 1. the projectile or cannonball (shot) 2. gunpowder 3. touch hole (or vent) in which the fuse or other ignition device is inserted. Round shot or solid shot or a cannonball or simply ball. A solid spherical projectile made, in early times, from dressed stone but, by the 17th century, from iron.

  6. Round shot - Wikipedia

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    A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun. Its diameter is slightly less than the bore of the barrel from which it is shot. A round shot fired from a large-caliber gun is also called a cannonball. The cast iron cannonball was introduced by French artillery ...

  7. Gun - Wikipedia

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    Battleship USS Iowa fires a full broadside from its nine sixteen-inch naval guns. A gun is a device designed to propel a projectile using pressure or explosive force. [1][2] The projectiles are typically solid, but can also be pressurized liquid (e.g. in water guns / cannons), or gas (e.g. light-gas gun).

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