Battleship was — from the 15th century until the mid-20th century — the name given to the most heavily gun-armed, most heavily armored, most powerful and most effective class of warship, at any particular time. The name has therefore been applied to a wide range of quite different vessels, from wooden galleons, through sail battleships of the "Age of Sail" and coastal battleships of the early 20th Century, to the massive, modern Yamato class ships built by Japan during World War II. ...

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Battleship - Early battleships Battleship - Industrial Age
Battleship - Explosive-shell naval guns Battleship - Ironclads Battleship - Turrets and rifled guns Battleship - Brown powder Battleship - Design experiments Battleship - All-big-guns
Battleship - The Dreadnought era
Battleship - The super dreadnought
Battleship - World War I Battleship - World War II Battleship - Post World War II Battleship - Fictional appearances

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Turret, Turret - Gun turrets

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Turret may also refer to a rotating weapon platform, mounted on a fortification, armoured fighting vehicle, naval ship, or military aircraft. A turret may be armed with one or more machine guns, automatic cannon, large-calibre guns, or missile launchers. It may be manned or remotely controlled, and often armoured. A small turret, or sub-turret on a larger one is called a cupola. Turre ...

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A gun is a mechanical device that fires projectiles at high velocity, using a propellant such as gun powder or compressed air. The term gun is often used as a synonym to firearm, but in its more technical usage refers only to artillery that fires projectiles at a high velocity along a flat trajectory, such as field guns, tank guns and anti-tank guns, and naval guns. Howitzers, mortars, and all hand-held firearms are excluded from this definition. The exception to this is the shotgun, which is hand-held, has a smooth bore ...

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Gun - Types of weapons Gun - Theory Gun - Politics and society Gun - Lists

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A rifled breech loader (RBL) is a large artillery piece which unlike the cannon and rifled muzzle loader (RML) which preceded it, has rifling in the barrel and is loaded from the breech at the rear of the gun. Typical guns weighed 30 tonnes and had 10" barrels. The spin imparted by the rifling gives the shell directional stability and greater penetrating power. Loading from the rear of the gun means the crew are less exposed to enemy fire, allows smaller gun ...

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The Bismarck class battleships were a class of extremely powerful capital ships intended by the German Admiral Erich Raeder to constitute a major part of the battleship component of Germany's failed "Plan Z." The aim of this plan was to create a surface fleet able to compete against the British Royal Navy for supremacy over the world's oceans, or at least over the Atlantic and possibly — with the help of the Italians, who were also in the midst of a battleship-building program — the Mediterranean Sea. Bismarck ...

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Bismarck class battleship - History Bismarck class battleship - Ships in class
Bismarck class battleship - Bismarck Bismarck class battleship - Tirpitz

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The Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR, usually pronounced "bee ay are") is a family of automatic rifles (or machine rifles) and light machine guns used primarily by the United States and other countries during the 20th century. It was designed in 1917 by the weapons designer John Browning primarily as a replacement for, and improvement on, the French-made Chauchat and Hotchkiss M1909. It was originally intended as a light automatic rifle, but spent much of its career in various guises used as a light machine gun with a bipod. The f ...

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Browning Automatic Rifle - Design Browning Automatic Rifle - Variants
Browning Automatic Rifle - United States Browning Automatic Rifle - International Browning Automatic Rifle - Commercial

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Varmint rifle is an American English term for a relatively small-caliber firearm (or even a high-powered air gun) primarily used for hunting varmints—such as coyotes and smaller. The varmint gun fills a design gap between small game rifles and rimfire firearms. .22LR (the most popular rimfire caliber) is somewhat underpowered for small predators, but is perfectly adequate to dealing with typical vermin; the term "varmint" covers larger animals which usually harass farms from the outside (as opposed to infestation by vermin), ...

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Varmint rifle - Common design elements Varmint rifle - General characteristics Varmint rifle - Calibers Varmint rifle - Action types Varmint rifle - Examples

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An automatic rifle is a term generally used to describe a self-loading rifle capable of firing either semi or fully-automatically from a magazine or belt of ammunition. In many cases, it describes a rifle capable of self-loading and firing a single round for each pull of the trigger (e.g. firing semi-automatically). However, it is also used to describe non-intermediate firearms capable of fully-automatic fire (a type of automatic firearm). Depending on the expert and point in history, automatic carbines and assault rifles are sometimes considered to be a type of automatic rifle, ...

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An assault rifle is a type of automatic rifle. They have been defined various ways. One is that an assault rifle is a selective-fire rifle chambered for a cartridge of intermediate power. If applied to any semi-automatic firearm regardless of its cosmetic similarity to a true assault rifle, the term is incorrect. They are generally understood to be selective fire rifles or carbines (depending on the particular firearm's size), using intermediate-powered ammunition. They can be considered a compromise between the larger and heavier Light machine gun and the weaker submachine gun. Assault rifl ...

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Assault rifle - History
Assault rifle - 1900s to the 1930s: light automatic rifles using rifle cartridges Assault rifle - 1930s:automatic intermediate weapons Assault rifle - 1940s and 1950s: Maschinenkarabiner Sturmgewehr & the AK-47 Assault rifle - 1960s and 1970s: lighter automatic weapons and lighter smaller bullets Assault rifle - 1970s 1980s 1990s: new form factors and features
Assault rifle - Assault weapons vs. fully automatic weapons

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The Battleship Potemkin or Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It is a fictional narrative film meant to glorify a real-life event that occurred in 1905, the Battleship Potemkin uprising, when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers during the Tsarist regime. Potemkin has been cal ...

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The Battleship Potemkin - Film style and content
The Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps sequence
The Battleship Potemkin - Previous censorship and recent restoration The Battleship Potemkin - Legacy

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An assault gun is a gun or howitzer mounted on a motor vehicle or armored chassis, designed for use in the direct fire role in support of infantry when attacking other infantry or fortified positions. Historically the custom-built fully armored assault guns usually mounted the gun or howitzer in a fully enclosed casemate on a tank chassis. The use of a casemate instead of a turret limited these weapons' field of fire, but provided a simpler construction that was cheaper to build and less prone to mechanical breakdowns. The incr ...

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Assault gun - History
Assault gun - World War II Assault gun - Postwar use

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The barrel of a gun or other firearm is the tube, usually metal, through which a controlled explosion is released in order to propel a projectile out of the end at great speed. The first guns were made in a time where metallurgy was not quite what it is today, so the pipe needed to be braced periodically along its length, producing an appearance somewhat reminiscent of a barrel. Another explanation, tied to etymology, states that many very first firearms barrels where in fact realized, during the 12-13 century, using sma ...

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Gun barrel - Construction Gun barrel - Smallbore

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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, multiple reports of confiscations of civilian weapons by law enforcement began coming out of New Orleans. Warrantless weapon searches of evacuees were carried out prior to allowing them into evacuation centers [2], house-to-house weapon confiscations were reported [3] [4], and the superintendent of police was quoted as saying "only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons" and "we are going to take all of the weapons" [5]. On September 12, 2005, National Rifle Association executive vice-presid ...

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National Rifle Association, National Rifle Association - Political lobby, National Rifle Association - Current campaigns, National Rifle Association - Current leadership and policies, National Rifle Association - 2000 Presidential Election, National Rifle Association - NRA history, National Rifle Association - NRA firearms safety programs, National Rifle Association - Shooting sports, National Rifle Association - Grass Roots Shooting Support, National Rifle Association - Second Amendment, National Rifle Association - Criticisms, National Rifle Association - The NRA and New Orleans Gun Confiscation, National Rifle Association - Publications

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Because of their unusual silhouette, HMS Nelson and her sister Rodney were sarcastically nicknamed Nelsol and Rodnol by the Royal Navy - their maneuverability problems and silhouettes reminded Navy men of oil tankers, not battleships. (A series of fleet oilers had been built during the First World War that bore names ending in "ol".) The closeness of the primary turrets to each other was also a danger to the structural integrity of the ships. The crews were warned to never fire all the 16 in (406 mm) guns a ...

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Nelson class battleship, Nelson class battleship - History and design, Nelson class battleship - The Ships, Nelson class battleship - General Characteristics

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The M82 is a short recoil semi-automatic firearm. When the gun is fired, the barrel initially recoils for a short distance (about an inch/25mm) being securely locked by the rotating bolt. After the short travel, a post on the bolt engaged in the curved cam track in the receiver turns the bolt to unlock it from the barrel. As soon as the bolt unlocks, the accelerator arm strikes it back, transferring part of the recoil energy of the barrel to the bolt to achieve reliable cycling. Then the barrel is stopped and the bolt continues back, to extr ...

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M82 rifle, M82 rifle - Overview, M82 rifle - Technical Description, M82 rifle - Specifications, M82 rifle - M82A1, M82 rifle - M82A2, M82 rifle - In Fiction, M82 rifle - Films, M82 rifle - Games

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The M82 is a short recoil semi-automatic firearm. When the gun is fired, the barrel initially recoils for a short distance (about an inch/25mm) being securely locked by the rotating bolt. After the short travel, a post on the bolt engaged in the curved cam track in the receiver turns the bolt to unlock it from the barrel. As soon as the bolt unlocks, the accelerator arm strikes it back, transferring part of the recoil energy of the barrel to the bolt to achieve reliable cycling. Then the barrel is stopped and the bolt continues back, to extr ...

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M82 rifle, M82 rifle - Overview, M82 rifle - Technical Description, M82 rifle - Specifications, M82 rifle - M82A1, M82 rifle - M82A2

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At the time of her delivery, Mikasa was a state-of-the-art pre-dreadnought battleship, achieving an unprecedented combination of firepower and protective strength. She was adapted from the Royal Navy's latest Majestic class design, with increased displacement (15,140 tonnes against 14,900), improved speed (18 knots against 17), slightly stronger armament (two more 6-inch guns), and much stronger armour: she kept the same armour thicknesses but used high performance Krupp armour, around 5 ...

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Japanese battleship Mikasa, Japanese battleship Mikasa - Background, Japanese battleship Mikasa - A state-of-the-art battleship, Japanese battleship Mikasa - Historical significance, Japanese battleship Mikasa - Later developments

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The game is played on two square grids, one for each player. The grids are typically square, and the individual squares in the grid are identified by letter and number. On one grid the player arranges his own ships and records the shots by the opponent. On the other grid, the player records his own shots. Before play begins, each player arranges a number of ships secretly on the grid for that player. Each ship occupies a number of consecutive squares on the grid, arranged either horizontally or vertically. The number of squares for ea ...

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Battleship game, Battleship game - Description, Battleship game - Battleships with ships, Battleship game - Variations

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The Royal Sovereigns were designed by the noted warship designer Sir William White. They were much bigger than the Admiral, Victoria, and Trafalagar classes that had preceded them, and when Royal Sovereign herself was completed she was the largest warship in the World. At 17.5 knots they were also faster than any other battleship afloat. They used the same 13.5 inch (343 mm) guns of the Admirals, though the Royal Sovereigns used barbettes instead of turrets, allowing them to have a much higher freeboard than in immediately previous classes, of 19 feet 6 inches (about 9 ...

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Royal Sovereign class battleship, Royal Sovereign class battleship - Design, Royal Sovereign class battleship - Ships

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