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2017年10月2日 · We should do a swap deal. Let the antis have this useless gimmick banned & deregulate suppressors in return. Are you afraid of annoying your neighbors when you whack somebody? :laugh:
Did China invent the first machine gun? - History Forum
2013年4月11日 · Dai Zi's father is good at making weapon. Dai Zi influenced by father began to like machine-building in young period. Besides, he was good at calligraphy and painting. Dai Zi joined the army in 1674. He invented a kind of continuous shot firearm in the army — Continuous Shot Gun. This kind of gun can store 28 bullets after once filling.
MHow impressive were the Japanese campaigns (41-42)
2023年5月14日 · BTW my father was a machine gunner at Dunkirk and the routine was to work in tandem with outfits as the Worcs Yeomanry (mutual protection). 5 foot 4 inches and weighting 8 stone (thanks to the hungry 30s) he managed to carry a 50 pound water filled Vickers Medium Machine gun, pretty fast under fire from the SS Liebstandarde AH - tough blokes!
Was ancient warfare more chivalrous/honorable than modern …
2024年11月29日 · Modern warfare is a different beast. The gun—an equalizer and a destroyer of tradition—changed everything. With a firearm, skill and training matter, but the barriers to entry are drastically lower. A child soldier with minimal training can end the life of a seasoned general with a single pull of a trigger.
Why was the Qing Dynasty so demonized to this day? Was the …
2024年11月21日 · Each battalion had one gattling gun with 27 heavy guns and 18 field cannons and approached those of the German army. It should be pointed out that in much of the Japanese and Russian armies, there were still only 12 field cannon per battalion so the Beiyang army was better equipped than all but the most elite Japanese units and it made up half ...
Elephants with cannons? - History Forum
2017年10月28日 · I don't think the elephant would respond to the sound of gun firing right behind the ears to well. The military efficacy of elephants is overblown. They are slow, cumbersome and require huge amounts of water and forage to feed such a large mass. They don't bring much to the battlefield - not speed, not manouveribiity.
Can Slavery Be Justified? | History Forum
2024年12月24日 · For slavery to be useful, the slave has to produce more than it costs to feed them. Therefore, in subsistence economies, where a person can only just produce enough calories to keep themselves and their family alive, the use of a slave can be self defeating, if all the slave is doing is producing enough calories to keep themselves alive.
Erika Kornelia Szeles, Machine-gun .... of the Hungarian Uprising
2023年2月16日 · As a member of a street insurgent team around Blaha Lujza tér, he ran to help a wounded comrade when he was fatally shot by a Soviet machine gun.[8][12][13] According to György Ivanits, "it contained almost a whole magazine of ammunition. They were lined up in a cross, and she was even wearing the red cross dress". [4]
The basis of disastrous leadership | History Forum
2024年12月13日 · a good leader treat his soldiers like a cavalryman treat his horse , feed it , pat it , make him trust you , don't trow their lives away for stupid things they will do great things for you Reactions: Leftyhunter
Wheellocks | History Forum
2025年1月9日 · It is highly useful for a gun to have a pan cover when loaded. (If there is no pan cover, the priming charge is liable to fly away with gun movements/position, wind, get wet in rain). For wheellock, the mechanical solution was achieved to do both the actions of sparking the wheel and removing the pan cover in one trigger pull.