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  • Rocket-assisted projectile/Definition
    ...on]]-launched projectile that does not depend on the initial energy of the cannon propellant, but supplements it with a [[rocket motor]] attached to the [[wa
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  • Space Invaders
    ...behind. These shields are slowly destroyed by the aliens' shots until the cannon has no place to hide and must dodge the shots.
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  • 88mm gun/Definition
    Dual-purpose cannon used by the [[Wehrmacht]] in WWII as both anti-aircraft and anti-tank artil
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  • Loke Viking/Definition
    ...hore oil platforms, capable of ice-breaking, and fighting fires with water cannon
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  • M1128 mobile gun system/Definition
    [[Direct support]] self-propelled [[105mm cannon]] in the [[Stryker (armored fighting vehicle)|Stryker family]] of the [[U.S
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  • Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact/Definition
    A technique in which a single cannon can put a burst of multiple projectiles in the air, with trajectories calcu
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  • M1128 mobile gun system
    ...r system]], the ''''M1128 mobile gun system''' is a self-propelled 105mm [[cannon]] intended to provide [[direct fire]] support to infantry. In Stryker units ...(mobile gun system)]]. One of the arguments against the M1128 is that its cannon is too heavy for a wheeled vehicle and it lacks protection, superior areas
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  • W9 (nuclear weapon)/Definition
    First nuclear artillery shell, for a specialized 280mm cannon; 80 shells built for 20 cannons; 1952-1957; remanufactured into T4 [[atomic
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  • Fireboat/Definition
    A water-going vessel equipped with water cannon for fighting fires, possibly augmented with infrared and other sensors, and
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  • M1134 anti-tank guided missile vehicle/Definition
    ...at also can engage hard targets such as bunkers, at longer range than tank cannon
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  • Firearm
    ====Cannon==== ===Development of Cannon===
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  • Gun (artillery)/Definition
    ...ect to caliber; characteristically has the flattest trajectory of types of cannon and usually the longest range for its caliber. Other than for specialized a
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  • Watervliet Arsenal/Definition
    ...ctures and maintains include [[tank (military)|tank]] and [[artillery]] [[cannon]], [[marine propulsion|marine propulsion systems]], mobile bridges, and [[r
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  • Anti-tank weapon/Definition
    ...uided weapon intended to penetrate [[armored fighting vehicle]]s; may be a cannon-fired projectile, [[unguided rocket]], [[gravity bomb]], [[cluster submuni
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  • MGM-140 ATACMS/Definition
    ...the [[U.S. Army]] to engage high-value ground targets beyond the range of cannon, yet under the direct control of ground forces commanders; fired by the [[M
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  • Sloop-of-war/Definition
    A light [[warship (sail)|sailing warship]], with a single gun deck and light cannon, typically used for patrols and scouting where contact with larger warships
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  • Gun/Related Articles
    {{rpl|Cannon}} {{rpl|88mm cannon||**}}
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  • 88mm gun
    The '''88mm gun''' was a high-velocity German [[cannon]] of the Second World War, originally developed as [[anti-aircraft artiller
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  • Multiple Round Simultaneous Impact/Related Articles
    {{r|XM1203 NLOS cannon}}
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  • GTK (television series)/Related Articles
    {{r|Bernie Cannon}}
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  • Mobile Gun System/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
    *Ted ([[Elliot Gould]])) and Alice ([[Dyan Cannon]])
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  • M60 Patton tank/Related Articles
    {{r|M68 105mm cannon}}
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  • Naval guns and gunnery/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • XM1203 50x228mm
    ...The cannon is a larger and more modern version of the [[25 mm Bushmaster cannon]] used on [[Bradley fighting vehicles]], various armored cars related to th ...ckhillscgblog2019-04-21/> The overall lengths of the 25mm cannon and 50mm cannon are 105.2cm and 157.7cm, respectively; while the portion of the gun that in
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  • S-60/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • Il-2 Shturmovik
    ...was upgraded to give adequate performance with upgraded 23mm high-velocity cannon, potent weapons against the light tank armor of the day. As was the prototy ...ll antitank bomblets in large numbers. A 1943 variant went to even heavier cannon, but these were not successful, only having a small number of rounds and wh
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  • Shot/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • Monarchy of the United Kingdom/Bibliography
    | last = Cannon
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  • George II (Great Britain)/Bibliography
    ...k, Jeremy. ''America or Europe? British Foreign Policy, 1739-63'' (1998) * Cannon, John, "George II (1683–1760)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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  • Mobile Gun System
    ...anha]], although they may use high or low velocity cannon, or even missile-cannon hybrids.<ref name=CasrMobileGunSystem> This wheeled vehicle would mount a cannon like the 105 mm cannon used in the previous generation of NATO tanks, like the [[Chieftain (tank)
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  • Mortar/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • Ocean escort/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon-class}}
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  • Future Combat Systems/Related Articles
    {{r|XM1203 NLOS cannon}}
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  • XM913 chain gun
    ...htly larger, meaning that many of the exising vehicles that mounted a 25mm cannon can have it replaced with the slightly larger but much more powerful weapon The maximum range of the cannon is believed to be 7 kilometres.<ref name=sadefensejournal2021-03/>
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  • Mega Borg
    ...rature beyond which it is wasteful to mix firefighting foam into the water cannon's spray. The fire could not be brought under control until the heat had be
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  • XM1204 (HEAB-T)
    ...The cannon is a larger and more modern version of the [[25 mm Bushmaster cannon]] used on [[Bradley fighting vehicles]], various armored cars related to th ...ckhillscgblog2019-04-21/> The overall lengths of the 25mm cannon and 50mm cannon are {{convert | 105.2 | cm |in}} and {{convert | 157.7 | cm |in}}, respecti
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  • Kochi, Kerala/Bibliography
    * Plunkett, R, Cannon, T, Davis, P, Greenway, P & Harding, P (2001), Lonely Planet South India, L
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  • Royal Canadian Navy
    ...fors]] cannon. Some of the cannons were stripped from museums. The 40 mm cannon were retired leaving the vessels armed only with a pair of [[Browning machi ...t of these vessels is just a 25mm autocannon, the navalized version of the cannon mounted on a [[Bradley armored vehicle]].
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  • Direct fire/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • T-34 tank
    The T-34/85 an upgrade T-34 equipped with a more powerful armor and cannon. It began to be replaced with the [[T-54 (tank)]] in 1949, but remained in
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  • M901A3 improved TOW vehicle
    ...e, they can attack after [[suppression of enemy air defense]]. Next, 120mm cannon on U.S. [[M1 Abrams tank]]s can engage the survivors.
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  • Proximity fuze/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • Multiple rocket launcher/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • M60 Patton tank
    Its 105mm cannon has been adapted to the Stryker [[M1128 mobile gun system‎]]. The [[M729
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  • Sloop-of-war
    ...[warship (sail)|sailing warship]], fitted with a single gun deck and light cannon, typically used for patrols and scouting where contact with larger warships
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  • Group of Eight
    ...owed, in June, by a heads of government meeting. Before the March meeting, Cannon said that the major topics would be related to global security:<ref>{{citat
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  • Fireboats of San Diego
    She had a single water cannon, only capable of pumping 1,200 gallons per hour.<ref name=nbsb/> The ''Shelter Island'' had two water cannon, capable of pumping 2,000 gallons per minute and 1,000 gallons per minute.<
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  • District Line/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon Street (Underground station)}}
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  • MiG-15 (fighter)
    ...during the [[Korean War]]. Equipped with relatively heavy but slow-firing cannon (1 37mm and 2 23mm) needed to kill heavy bombers, it was was quite compete
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  • Howitzer
    A '''howitzer''' is an artillery piece of the cannon family, with a ratio of caliber to barrel length intermediate between mort ...from active military use. While this was long considered the most accurate cannon in the U.S. Army, rockets and missiles have greater range, accuracy and pay
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  • M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System
    ...provides long-range heavy artillery fire in areas where traditional heavy cannon could not go. It is based on a [[High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle
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  • Katyusha rocket
    ...d spread out to put blast and fragmentation over a large area. Traditional cannon artillery were more accurate and put more intense blast in a smaller area;
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  • Howitzer/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • MiG-21 (fighter)
    ...original version did not have an internal gun, but later models had a 23mm cannon.
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  • Mortar
    ...and especially attacks on land positions from ships. Where the first siege cannon were direct fire weapons intended to batter down walls, a mortar, firing ho | title = 80 cm cannon "Dora"}}</ref> Some of the weapons, such as the WWI 420mm "Big Bertha", wer
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  • Warhead/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction
    ...S19 |issn=}}</ref><ref name="pmid15289215">{{cite journal |author=Bach RG, Cannon CP, Weintraub WS, ''et al'' |title=The effect of routine, early invasive m
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  • HMBS Leonard C Banfield
    ...]] the vessel and her sister ships primary armament was a non-lethal water cannon, but she was also armed with machine guns.<ref name=AviationWeek2007-10-01/
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  • Damen Stan 4708 patrol vessel
    ...Damen Stan type 4207 patrol vessel. Note the cannon on the bow is a water cannon, for fire-fighting.]] ...ll arms]]. Many of the vessels come equipped with a fire-fighting [[water cannon]]. Many of the agencies that employ these vessels specified they should be
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  • Outarde (ship, 1939)
    ...m Hampton Roads to Boston for the U.S. Maritime Commission and had a 12 lb cannon mounted on the afterhouse for protection. She was armed with a small cannon during [[World War II]].<ref name=MarinersLog2004-04/>
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  • Euromissile HOT
    ...m; control system inside the vehicle; and turret with the HOT missiles and cannon or machine gun. ...either two or four HOT 3 missiles and can also be armed with 30mm or 20mm cannon or 12.7mm machine gun.
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  • M2 machine gun
    ...ome type of vehicle mount, such as a "pintle" pedestal or coaxially with a cannon. Coaxial mounts are used both for lethal fire, and also to verify the aim o
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  • M109 howitzer
    ...ock the cannon from the travel lock, point the cannon and fire, relock the cannon, and make ready for movement. At any stopping point, either a firing locat ...anceled. The more recent successor has been the Future Combat Systems#NLOS cannon in the Future Combat Systems (FCS), but, in April 2009, Secretary of Defens
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  • Fuse (pyrotechnic)
    Prior to the 20th century, gunners of manual cannon would hold a length of burning "slow match" or "slow fuse" (not at the burn
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  • St. Mungo (fireboat)
    The turbine pumps provided water to up to six [[water cannon]]s. Each turbine pump was powered by a diesel rated at 400 bhp.
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  • York, Upper Canada
    ...stern end of the sandspit, where it curled closest to short. A battery of cannon, in [[Fort York]], could impede the entry of hostile vessels.
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  • Semi-automatic (military)
    ...with projectile, propellant, and primer in one sealed package. Some large cannon, mostly naval in the twentieth century, require the projectile to be loaded
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  • Seven Acre Shoal
    However she was sunk by a cannon salvo prior to entering Kingston's harbour.
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  • Work (physics)
    ...nnon. The total work done by the gravitation is zero, the work done on the cannon ball going up cancels the work done on the ball going down. (In this exampl ...gravitational field is conservative, we just saw an example of a mass (a cannon ball) making a closed path in a conservative force field. The [[potential e
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  • Unguided rocket
    ...hus rocket launchers can be constructed far more lightly than would be a [[cannon]] of equivalent payload, which has to absorb the recoil of the explosion th ...and artillery rockets that may come close in accuracy to that of unguided cannon shells. Infantry support rockets are usually [[direct fire]], and most comm
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  • Stress (physiology)
    ...to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system.<ref>Cannon WB (1914) The emergency function of the adrenal medulla in pain and the maj <ref>Cannon WB (1929) Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Rece
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  • Anacetrapib
    ...related to [[torcetrapib]].<ref name="pmid21082868">{{cite journal| author=Cannon CP, Shah S, Dansky HM, Davidson M, Brinton EA, Gotto AM et al.| title=Safet
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  • J. H. Carlisle (fireboat)
    ...al 6 taps to attach water hoses, forward and aft. Her most powerful water cannon was mounted on a tower in the middle of the vessel.
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  • Marine 1 (Albany fireboat)
    ...She can project a relatively modest 1500 gallons per minute from a water cannon mounted on the roof of her enclosed deckhouse.
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  • Stryker Brigade Combat Team
    ...pport]] from [[M1128 mobile gun system]] (MGS) vehicles armed with [[105mm cannon]], the original [[M1 Abrams tank]] guns before they were upgraded to 120mm.
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  • Washington, D.C.
    ...of 1812, the British neglected to follow the traffic rules and avoided the cannon. During some of the larger protests of the 1970s, the small parks at the ce
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  • Gunpowder/Bibliography
    * Mauskopf, Seymour H. "Chemistry and Cannon: J.-L. Proust and Gunpowder Analysis," ''Technology and Culture,'' Vol. 31,
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  • Landing craft, personnel (large)
    ...onnel, Large. Some were converted to close-in fire support vessels using [[cannon]] or [[unguided rockets]].
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  • Unguided rocket/Related Articles
    {{r|Cannon}}
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  • Christopher Wheatley (fireboat)
    ...wo of which are dedicated to powering her four [[water cannon]]s. A water cannon on her aft deck is on an extensible mast that can be raised to a height of
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  • Republican Party (United States), history/Catalogs
    *[[Joseph Gurney Cannon]] (1836-1926), Speaker of the House
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  • Surrey (1891 ship)
    She was equipped with water cannon, for fighting fires.<ref name=oppositethecity2011-07-09A/> However, when a
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  • GTK (television series)
    | '''Producers''' || Ric Birch, Bernie Cannon ...|isbn=9781741144178|oclc=62549250}}</ref> who commissioned producer Bernie Cannon and producer-director Ric Birch to develop a product which could capture th
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  • Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System
    ...ce, and M109 howitzers in artillery units that can shoot back at the enemy cannon site while its shells are still in flight.
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  • Joseph Medill (fireboat, 1908)
    ...Knight]] was knocked overboard during a celebratory display of her [[water cannon]]s.<ref name=IllinoisFire/><ref name=ChicagoTribune1963-08-02/>
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  • Ireland (state)/Catalogs/Irish political parties
    Leader: [[Ciarán Cannon]]
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  • B-25 Mitchell
    In the refined J version, the 75mm cannon was removed, but with both factory and field modifications, up to fourteen
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  • MGM-140 ATACMS
    ...value targets such as missile sites and command posts, beyond the range of cannon artillery such as the [[M109 howitzer]]. This missile had 100mi/165km range
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  • Nobuhito Takamatsu
    | title = Sage Prophet or Loose Cannon? Skilled Intelligence Officer in World War II Foresaw Japan's Plans, but An
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  • Stan Musial (fireboat)
    The ''Stan Musial'' can transmit 7,000 gallons per minute from its [[water cannon]], and can travel at up to 38 knots.<ref name=Kmov2013-10-30/><ref name=Ksc
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  • Battle of Coleto Creek
    ...about one hundred yards, Fannin gave the order to open fire with rifle and cannon shot and canister. Mexican casualties were heavy, but Urrea gave the order ...animals had become targets of the snipers. The Texans could not move their cannon nor their wounded.
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  • Protector (fireboat, 2007)
    One of her two water cannon can be dismounted, which would be useful for fighting a fire, on land, if a
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  • Tank (military)
    ...terrain because it uses tracks rather than wheels, has at least one main [[cannon|main high-velocity gun]] and one or more machine guns, and some level of ar ...[[M60 Patton (tank)]]s used their main guns on enemy tanks. Western 120mm cannon rounds usually achieved catastrophic kills, where the frontal Chobham armor
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  • Fireboats of Philadelphia
    * Her largest water cannon is on a raisable mast, and is operated by remote control.<ref name=RalIndep
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  • Gunpowder
    ...was used as a propellant for [[unguided rocket]]s, and to propel shot in [[cannon]]. During the late 14th and early 15th centuries, Chinese gunpowder techno ...el, to which pistol barrels, loaded with a bullet, were attached. When the cannon was fired, the pressure wave propelled the bullets down the barrels, where
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  • Great Siege of Scarborough Castle/Citable Version
    ...y forces set up what was then the largest [[cannon]] in the country, the ''Cannon Royal'', in the twelfth-century St. Mary's Church below the castle, and pro ...Boynton, 1st Baronet|Sir Matthew Boynton]] had replaced Meldrum, favouring cannon fire from land and sea over infantry assault. Bombardment, [[scurvy]], lack
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  • Su-25
    ...ground targets in a line (e.g., vehicles on a road) were wing-mounted 23mm cannon pods, up to 4 per aircraft. Their aim can be depressed through 30° up, all
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  • Caliber
    ...t, until the [[Second World War]], and especially during the days of sail, cannon were described in terms of the weight of their projectile, a 32 pounder bei
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  • Mary Rose
    ...structure cut down for stability, her decks strengthened, and a new set of cannon installed. with 15 large bronze guns, 24 wrought-iron carriage guns and 52
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