Lee-Enfield

Rifle - History of design. Muskets were smooth-bore, large caliber weapons using ball-shaped ammunition fired at relatively low velocity. Due to the high cost and great difficulty of precision manufacturing, and the need to load readily from the muzzle, the musket ball was a loose fit in the barrel. Consequently on firing the ball bounced off the sides of the barrel when fired and the final direction on leaving the muzzle was unpredictable. The origins of rifling are difficult to trace, but some of the earliest p ...

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Rifle, Rifle - Overview, Rifle - History, Rifle - History of design, Rifle - History of use, Rifle - Kinds of rifles

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Mosin-Nagant - Soviet Satellites. With Russia's and eventually the Soviet Union's heavy influence on Eastern Europe it is not surprising that many Mosin Nagants found their way into the hands of soldiers in various Balkan Wars and in the post-World War II militaries of nations like Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland (see individual heading below), and Romania. These often underwent various refurbishings and modifications and were in use usually until the 1960s or 1970s as training rifles. Many rifles were also produced locally in the post-war years. See also:

Mosin-Nagant, Mosin-Nagant - History, Mosin-Nagant - Foreign Mosin-Nagants, Mosin-Nagant - Soviet Satellites, Mosin-Nagant - People's Republic of China, Mosin-Nagant - Finland, Mosin-Nagant - Germany, Mosin-Nagant - North Korea, Mosin-Nagant - Poland, Mosin-Nagant - Turkey, Mosin-Nagant - Others, Mosin-Nagant - Variations produced in the Soviet Union, Mosin-Nagant - Mosin-Nagants in the media

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List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Current. Steyr AUG M4 Carbine? (SAS) List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Obsolete. M16 L1A1 Lee-Enfield (SMLE, No 4, No 5) P14 ...

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List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces, List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Rifles, List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Current, List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Obsolete, List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Sub Machine Guns, List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Grenade Launchers, List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Machine Guns, List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Current, List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Rocket Launchers, List of individual weapons of the New Zealand armed forces - Anti-Personal

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The Cartridge, S.A., Ball, Magazine Rifle, Mark I Solid Case, .303inch was first introduced with the Lee-Metford rifle in 1889. In its original form, the round was a 215 grain (13.9 g) round-nosed cupro-nickel jacketed bullet propelled by 71.5 grains (4.63 g) of RFG2 Blackpowder, giving it a muzzle velocity of 1830 feet per second (560 m/s) and a chamber pressure of about 19 short tons force per square inch (260 MPa). Blackpowder is not very dense, and the charge had to be pressed into a solid pellet in order to fit inside the round. ...

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.303 British, .303 British - History, .303 British - Weapons chambered for .303 British, .303 British - Specifications

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The war saw the extensive operation of Rhodesian regulars as well as elite units such as the Selous Scouts and the Rhodesian SAS. The Rhodesian Army fought bitterly against the black nationalist guerrillas. The Rhodesian Army comprised regiments such as the Rhodesian African Rifles and conscription was eventually introduced to supplement the professional soldiers and the many volunteers from overseas. By 1978 all white males up to the age of 60 were subject to periodic call-up into the army; younger men up to 35 might expect to spend alterna ...

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Second Chimurenga, Second Chimurenga - Rhodesian equipment and personnel, Second Chimurenga - Nationalist rebel equipment and personnel, Second Chimurenga - Timeline of the war, Second Chimurenga - Resolution

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Version history (incomplete) Beta 1.0 (January 12, 2001) Beta 1.1 (February 14, 2001) Beta 1.2 (April 5, 2001 ?) Beta 1.3 (July 1, 2001) Beta 2.0 (October 13, 2001 ?) Beta 2.1 (May 10, 2002) Beta 2.2 (?) Beta 2.3 (?) Beta 3.0 (July 11, 2002) Beta 3.1 (August 8, 2002) Version 1.0 (May 1, 2003) Version 1.1 (November 14, 2003, the first release on Steam) Version 1.2 (May 19, 2004) Version 1.3 (July 7, 2004) DoD ...

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Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat - Gameplay, Day of Defeat - Map Objectives, Day of Defeat - History, Day of Defeat - Weapons, Day of Defeat - Controls, Day of Defeat - Maps, Day of Defeat - Day of Defeat: Source, Day of Defeat - Bots, Day of Defeat - DoD Machinima

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Although firearms technology and the conscript army dramatically changed the nature of warfare, most armies were completely unaware of the implications of these changes and unprepared for their consequences. At the start of World War I, most armies prepared for a brief war whose strategy and tactics would have been familiar to Napoleon. However, as war broke out, German and Allied (mostly French and British) forces soon learned that with modern weapons even a shallow scrape in the soil could be defended by a handful of infantry. To at ...

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Trench warfare, Trench warfare - Background, Trench warfare - Siege warfare, Trench warfare - Maori Pas, Trench warfare - Development, Trench warfare - Implementation, Trench warfare - Defensive system, Trench warfare - Trench construction, Trench warfare - Trench geography, Trench warfare - Life in the trenches, Trench warfare - Death in the trenches, Trench warfare - Weapons of trench warfare, Trench warfare - Infantry weapons, Trench warfare - Machine guns, Trench warfare - Mortars, Trench warfare - Artillery, Trench warfare - Gas, Trench warfare - Helmets, Trench warfare - Wire, Trench warfare - Aircraft, Trench warfare - Other Weapons, Trench warfare - Mining, Trench warfare - Trench battles, Trench warfare - Strategy, Trench warfare - Tactics, Trench warfare - Communications, Trench warfare - Obsolescence, Trench warfare - Recent trench warfare, Trench warfare - Sources

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Call of Duty is similar in theme and gameplay to Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, and like the earlier game includes various singleplayer campaigns and missions. However, unlike Medal of Honor, the war is seen not just from the viewpoint of an American soldier but from the viewpoint of British, American and Soviet soldiers - players take the perspective of a soldier by the name of Pvt. Martin of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, Sgt. Jack Evans in the British 6th Airborne Division and Special Operations Executive, and Sgt. Alexei Ivano ...

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Call of Duty, Call of Duty - Overview, Call of Duty - Multiplayer modes, Call of Duty - Behind Enemy Lines, Call of Duty - Deathmatch, Call of Duty - Team deathmatch, Call of Duty - Retrieval, Call of Duty - Search & Destroy, Call of Duty - Headquarters, Call of Duty - Modding, Call of Duty - Awards

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BSA was founded in 1861 in the Gun Quarter, Birmingham by fourteen gunsmiths of the Birmingham Small Arms Trade Association, England, who had together supplied arms to the British government during the Crimean War. The company branched out as the gun trade declined; in the 1880s the company began to manufacture bicycles and in 1903 the company's first experimental motorcycle was constructed. Their first prototype automobile was produced in 1907 and the next year the company sold 150 automobiles. By 1909 they were offering a number of motorcycles for sale and in 1910 BSA purchase ...

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Birmingham Small Arms Company, Birmingham Small Arms Company - History, Birmingham Small Arms Company - World War One, Birmingham Small Arms Company - World War Two, Birmingham Small Arms Company - Post war, Birmingham Small Arms Company - Products, Birmingham Small Arms Company - Motorcycles, Birmingham Small Arms Company - Cars, Birmingham Small Arms Company - Military vehicles, Birmingham Small Arms Company - Military equipment, Birmingham Small Arms Company - Air Rifles

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Although firearms technology and the conscript army dramatically changed the nature of warfare, most armies were completely unaware of the implications of these changes and unprepared for their consequences. At the start of World War I, most armies prepared for a brief war whose strategy and tactics would have been familiar to Napoleon. However, as war broke out, German and Allied (mostly French and British) forces soon learned that with modern weapons even a shallow scrape in the soil could be defended by a handful of infantry. To at ...

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Trench warfare, Trench warfare - Background, Trench warfare - Siege warfare, Trench warfare - Maori Pas, Trench warfare - Development, Trench warfare - Implementation, Trench warfare - Defensive system, Trench warfare - Trench construction, Trench warfare - Trench geography, Trench warfare - Life in the trenches, Trench warfare - Death in the trenches, Trench warfare - Weapons of trench warfare, Trench warfare - Infantry weapons, Trench warfare - Machine guns, Trench warfare - Mortars, Trench warfare - Artillery, Trench warfare - Gas, Trench warfare - Helmets, Trench warfare - Wire, Trench warfare - Aircraft, Trench warfare - Other Weapons, Trench warfare - Mining, Trench warfare - Trench battles, Trench warfare - Strategy, Trench warfare - Tactics, Trench warfare - Communications, Trench warfare - Obsolescence, Trench warfare - Recent trench warfare

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The Royal Ordnance Factories can trace their history back to 1560 with the founding of the Royal Gunpowder Factory (RGPF) at Waltham Abbey, Essex. This was linked to the Royal Small Arms Factory RSAF at Enfield Lock and the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. All were based near London—but not too close in case of explosion. The title of Royal Arsenal was introduced in 1805 to encompass the Royal Laboratories, Royal Gun Factory, and the Royal Carriage, which were originally separate and based in Greenwich. In 1927 these Royal Factories were transferred within the War Office from the Ministry of Munitions to the Departm ...

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Royal Ordnance, Royal Ordnance - Lineage, Royal Ordnance - Privatisation, Royal Ordnance - Consolidation into BAE Systems

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Bullet designs have to solve several problems: The bullet must form a seal with the gun's bore. The worse the seal, the more gas generated by the explosion leaks past the bullet reducing the efficiency. There are two types of seals (gas checks) in common use. One is a slight indentation in the back of the bullet. Gas pressure forces the metal lip against the bore. Another type is a basic labyrinthine seal: one or two bands of raised material go around the bullet. The bullet must engage the rifling without dam ...

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Bullet, Bullet - Material, Bullet - Design, Bullet - Types, Bullet - Manufacture, Bullet - Lead bullets, Bullet - Jacketed bullets, Bullet - Treaties, Bullet - History, Bullet - The first bullets, Bullet - The bullet takes shape, Bullet - The modern bullet, Bullet - Bullet acronyms

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List of firearms in first-person shooters - 007: Nightfire Console/PC. To avoid copyright, the names of the weapons were changed to fictitious variations, the real names are mentioned below with their game names in brackets. Pistols Walther PPK (Wolfram PP7. A gold variation exists in game.) Walther P99 (Wolfram P2K. A gold variation exists in game.) GLOCK 17 (Kowloon type 40) GLOCK 18 (Kowloon type 80) IMI Desert Eagle (Raptor Magnum) See also:

List of firearms in first-person shooters, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Full released games or Purchased Re-Released Mods, List of firearms in first-person shooters - 007: Nightfire Console/PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - America's Army PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Call of Duty PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Call of Duty 2 PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Counter-Strike PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Battlefield 2 PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Day of Defeat PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Day of Defeat: Source PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Half-Life PC/Playstation 2, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Half-Life 2 PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - IGI 2: Covert Strike PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Medal of Honor: Allied Assault PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown PS2/XBOX, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory PC, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Released Conversion Modifications of Games, List of firearms in first-person shooters - The Specialists, List of firearms in first-person shooters - Urban Terror

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Day of Defeat has been a popular ground for machinima production. Somewhat recently the official Day of Defeat forums added a section solely for movie making here[3]. Somewhat more ambitious productions have included story lines, cinematic like editing, and custom-created content solely for the movie. One of the more ambitious product studios is Chaos Films [4]. Although somewhat idle at the moment, Chaos Films was the first organized studio solely aimed at creating story based machinima content for Day of Defeat. They solely sparked ...

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Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat - Gameplay, Day of Defeat - Map Objectives, Day of Defeat - History, Day of Defeat - Weapons, Day of Defeat - Controls, Day of Defeat - Maps, Day of Defeat - Day of Defeat: Source, Day of Defeat - Bots, Day of Defeat - DoD Machinima

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In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, Britain faced serious economic woes and heavy defence cuts were consequently imposed by the British Government in the early 1920s as part of a reduction in public expenditure known as the "Geddes Axe" after Sir Eric Geddes. The Government introduced the Ten-Year Rule, stating its belief that Britain would not be involved in another major war for 10-years, and was abandoned in 1932. The Royal Tank Corps was the only corps formed in WWI that survived the cuts; the cavalry had sixteen regiments ...

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History of the British Army, History of the British Army - Origins 1661-1774, History of the British Army - American Revolution Napoleonic Wars and the Long Peace 1774-1854, History of the British Army - Crimea Mutiny Colonial Wars & the Cardwell-Childers reforms 1854-1914, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - The Great War 1914-18, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Equipment, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - Inter-War Period 1919-1939, History of the British Army - World War II 1939-1945, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - End of Empire and Cold War 1945-1990, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - Age of Mobility 1990-present, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - Terminology, History of the British Army - Official rifle of the Army 1722-2005

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History of the British Army - Organisation. Due to the Indian Mutiny (1857-58), the Army was extremely overstretched, to such an extent that Canadian volunteers raised a regiment for the British Army for serve in India, titled the 100th (or Prince of Wales's Royal Canadians) Regiment of Foot; it did not, however, see service there. In the aftermath of the Mutiny, control of India was transferred from the East India Company to the Crown. The so-called 'European' regiments of the East India Company were transferred ...

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History of the British Army, History of the British Army - Origins 1661-1774, History of the British Army - American Revolution Napoleonic Wars and the Long Peace 1774-1854, History of the British Army - Crimea Mutiny Colonial Wars & the Cardwell-Childers reforms 1854-1914, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - The Great War 1914-18, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Equipment, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - Inter-War Period 1919-1939, History of the British Army - World War II 1939-1945, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - End of Empire and Cold War 1945-1990, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - Age of Mobility 1990-present, History of the British Army - Organisation, History of the British Army - Operations, History of the British Army - Terminology, History of the British Army - Official rifle of the Army 1722-2005

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Day of Defeat is a 3D multiplayer shooter that simulates infantry battle between the adversaries of World War II's European Theatre: The Allies or The Axis Powers. The goal is to complete various mission objectives. Players choose which side they will fight on and what character class their soldier will be. There are unique soldier classes for the Allies (United States and United Kingdom) and the Axis (Nazi Germany). Class determines which weapons the player ...

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Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat - Gameplay, Day of Defeat - Map Objectives, Day of Defeat - History, Day of Defeat - Weapons, Day of Defeat - Controls, Day of Defeat - Maps, Day of Defeat - Day of Defeat: Source, Day of Defeat - Bots, Day of Defeat - DoD Machinima

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Day of defeat maps do not always require that both teams have the same objectives. Some of the more popular maps have different objectives for both teams. Capture the flag Players can capture a flag by standing near the flag for a certain amount of time. Certain flags require more than 1 player for capture. Flags are presented as either uncaptured (Grey), Axis (Red) or Allies (Green). Certain maps (dod_charlie) do not allow a captured flag to be recaptured by the defending ...

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Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat - Gameplay, Day of Defeat - Map Objectives, Day of Defeat - History, Day of Defeat - Weapons, Day of Defeat - Controls, Day of Defeat - Maps, Day of Defeat - Day of Defeat: Source, Day of Defeat - Bots, Day of Defeat - DoD Machinima

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Although the plot and much of the script was left intact, Disney's English dub of Castle in the Sky contains some changes. Examples of these include the addition of a significant quantity of 'background chatter' and comical one liners (similar to Disney's dub of Kiki's Delivery Service), and the extension of the musical score to cover sections of the film which previously had no score. (The latter was done, as mentioned below, by the original composer, Joe Hisaishi.) The Japanese version makes r ...

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Castle in the Sky, Castle in the Sky - Characters, Castle in the Sky - Setting, Castle in the Sky - Plot, Castle in the Sky - Differences between English and Japanese Versions, Castle in the Sky - Trivia, Castle in the Sky - Credits, Castle in the Sky - Cast, Castle in the Sky - Awards

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Day of Defeat Maps dod_anzio dod_avalanche dod_caen dod_charlie dod_chemille dod_donner dod_escape dod_falaise dod_flash dod_flugplatz dod_forest dod_glider dod_jagd dod_kalt dod_kraftstoff dod_merderet dod_northbound dod_saints dod_sturm dod_switch dod_vicenza dod_zalec dod_cherbourg dod_dog< ...

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Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat - Gameplay, Day of Defeat - Map Objectives, Day of Defeat - History, Day of Defeat - Weapons, Day of Defeat - Controls, Day of Defeat - Maps, Day of Defeat - Day of Defeat: Source, Day of Defeat - Bots, Day of Defeat - DoD Machinima

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Along with the standard movement controls of any first-person shooter game, day of defeat has a few extra buttons. Sprint Holding the sprint button is used to make a quick dash. The player will lose stamina during the sprint. If there is no more stamina, the player stops sprinting and moves slowly. The player can stop sprinting at anytime by releasing the sprint button. Prone A player can go prone by pressing the prone button. A proned player will have increased accuracy and ...

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Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat - Gameplay, Day of Defeat - Map Objectives, Day of Defeat - History, Day of Defeat - Weapons, Day of Defeat - Controls, Day of Defeat - Maps, Day of Defeat - Day of Defeat: Source, Day of Defeat - Bots, Day of Defeat - DoD Machinima

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