Bazooka, the Glossary
The Bazooka is a man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon, widely deployed by the United States Army, especially during World War II.[1]
Table of Contents
163 relations: Aberdeen Proving Ground, Algeria, Algerian War, Amsterdam University Press, Anti-tank grenade, Anti-tank warfare, Argentine Army, Armistice of 11 November 1918, Associated Press, AT4, Australian War Memorial, Battle of Arracourt, Battle of Osan, Battle of Taejon, Battle of the Pusan Perimeter, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Bazooka (instrument), Bell H-13 Sioux, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bob Burns (humorist), Bracing (aeronautics), Brigade 2506, Buisine, Bunker, Canadian Army, Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle, Catastrophic kill, Central Office of Information, Charles Carpenter (pilot), Chemical Corps, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Chinese Civil War, Clarence N. Hickman, Clark University, Commonwealth of Nations, Congo Crisis, Cosmoline, Cyanogen chloride, Deflection (ballistics), Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edward Uhl, Falchion, Falklands War, Fidel Castro, First Indochina War, Free France, Generic trademark, George C. Marshall, George S. Patton, ... Expand index (113 more) »
- Anti-tank rockets of the United States
- Anti-tank weapons
- World War II infantry weapons of Brazil
- World War II infantry weapons of the United States
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) is a U.S. Army facility located adjacent to Aberdeen, Harford County, Maryland, United States.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Algerian War
The Algerian War (also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence)الثورة الجزائرية al-Thawra al-Jaza'iriyah; Guerre d'Algérie (and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November) was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France.
Amsterdam University Press
Amsterdam University Press (AUP) is a university press that was founded in 1992 by the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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Anti-tank grenade
An anti-tank grenade is a specialized hand-thrown grenade used to defeat armored targets. Bazooka and anti-tank grenade are anti-tank weapons.
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Anti-tank warfare
Anti-tank warfare originated during World War I from the desire to develop technology and tactics to destroy tanks. Bazooka and Anti-tank warfare are anti-tank weapons.
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Argentine Army
The Argentine Army (Ejército Argentino, EA) is the land force branch of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic and the senior military service of Argentina.
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Armistice of 11 November 1918
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, at sea, and in the air in World War I between the Entente and their last remaining opponent, Germany.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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AT4
The AT4 is a Swedish unguided, man-portable, disposable, shoulder-fired recoilless anti-tank weapon manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics (formerly: FFV Ordance, later, Bofors Anti-Armour Systems).
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Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial and museum dedicated to all Australians who died during war.
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Battle of Arracourt
The Battle of Arracourt took place between U.S. and German armoured forces near the town of Arracourt, Lorraine, France between 18 and 29 September 1944, during the Lorraine Campaign of World War II.
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Battle of Osan
The Battle of Osan (오산 전투) was the first engagement between the United States and North Korea during the Korean War.
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Battle of Taejon
The Battle of Taejon (16–20 July 1950) was an early battle of the Korean War, between U.S. and North Korean forces.
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Battle of the Pusan Perimeter
The Battle of the Pusan Perimeter (부산 교두보 전투), known in Korean as the Battle of the Naktong River Defense Line (낙동강 방어선 전투), was a large-scale battle between United Nations Command (UN) and North Korean forces lasting from August 4 to September 18, 1950.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion (sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, clandestinely financed and directed by the U.S.
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Bazooka (instrument)
The bazooka is a brass musical instrument several feet in length which incorporates telescopic tubing like the trombone.
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Bell H-13 Sioux
The Bell H-13 Sioux is an American single-engine light helicopter built by Bell Helicopter and manufactured by Westland Aircraft under license for the British military as the Sioux AH.1 and HT.2.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.
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Bob Burns (humorist)
Robin "Bob" Burns (August 2, 1890 – February 2, 1956) was an American musical comedian, who appeared on radio and in movies from 1930 to 1947.
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Bracing (aeronautics)
In aeronautics, bracing comprises additional structural members which stiffen the functional airframe to give it rigidity and strength under load.
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Brigade 2506
Brigade 2506 (Brigada Asalto 2506) was a CIA-sponsored group of Cuban exiles formed in 1960 to attempt the military overthrow of the Cuban government headed by Fidel Castro.
Buisine
The buisine and the añafil were variations of a type of straight medieval trumpet usually made of metal, also called a herald's trumpet.
Bunker
A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs, artillery, or other attacks.
Canadian Army
The Canadian Army (Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle
The Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle (named after Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori, which initially produced it) is a Swedish-developed caliber shoulder-fired recoilless rifle, initially developed by the Royal Swedish Army Materiel Administration during the second half of the 1940s as a crew-served man-portable infantry support gun for close-range multi-role anti-armour, anti-personnel, battlefield illumination, smoke screening and marking fire, which has seen great export success around the globe and continues to be a popular multi-purpose support weapon in use by many nations. Bazooka and Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle are anti-tank weapons.
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Catastrophic kill
A catastrophic kill, K-Kill or complete kill is damage inflicted on an armored vehicle that renders it permanently non-functional (most commonly via fire and/or an explosion).
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Central Office of Information
The Central Office of Information (COI) was the UK government's marketing and communications agency.
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Charles Carpenter (pilot)
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Chemical Corps
The Chemical Corps is the branch of the United States Army tasked with defending against and using chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons.
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Chief of Staff of the United States Army
The chief of staff of the Army (CSA) is a statutory position in the United States Army held by a general officer.
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Chinese Civil War
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.
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Clarence N. Hickman
Clarence Nichols Hickman (–) was a physicist who worked on rockets with Robert Goddard.
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Clark University
Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.
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Congo Crisis
The Congo Crisis (Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
Cosmoline
Cosmoline is the genericized trademark for a common class of brown, wax-like petroleum-based corrosion inhibitors, typically conforming to United States Military Standard MIL-C-11796C Class 3.
Cyanogen chloride
Cyanogen chloride is a highly toxic chemical compound with the formula CNCl.
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Deflection (ballistics)
Deflection shooting is a technique of shooting ahead of a moving target, also known as leading the target, so that the projectile will "intercept" and collide with the target at a predicted point.
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Douglas C-47 Skytrain
The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (RAF designation) is a military transport aircraft developed from the civilian Douglas DC-3 airliner.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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Edward Uhl
Edward Uhl (March 24, 1918 – May 9, 2010) was a United States Army Ordnance Corps officer who developed the M1 portable rocket launcher, known as the bazooka.
Falchion
A falchion (Old French: fauchon; Latin: falx, "sickle") is a one-handed, single-edged sword of European origin.
Falklands War
The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
First Indochina War
The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 20 July 1954.
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Free France
Free France (France libre) was a political entity claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third Republic during World War II.
Generic trademark
A generic trademark, also known as a genericized trademark or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name that, because of its popularity or significance, has become the generic term for, or synonymous with, a general class of products or services, usually against the intentions of the trademark's owner.
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George C. Marshall
George Catlett Marshall Jr. (31 December 1880 – 16 October 1959) was an American army officer and statesman.
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George S. Patton
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
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Gladeon M. Barnes
Gladeon Marcus Barnes (15 June 1887 – 15 November 1961) was a United States Army major general who, as Chief of Research and Engineering in the Ordnance Department, was responsible for the development of 1,600 different weapons.
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Go/no-go gauge
A go/no-go gauge refers to an inspection tool used to check a workpiece against its allowed tolerances via a go/no-go test.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
Grenade
A grenade is an explosive weapon typically thrown by hand (also called hand grenade), but can also refer to a shell (explosive projectile) shot from the muzzle of a rifle (as a rifle grenade) or a grenade launcher.
High-explosive anti-tank
High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) is the effect of a shaped charge explosive that uses the Munroe effect to penetrate heavy armor.
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Ignition magneto
An ignition magneto (also called a high-tension magneto) is an older type of ignition system used in spark-ignition engines (such as petrol engines).
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Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museums (IWM), is a British national museum.
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Indian Head, Maryland
Indian Head is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States.
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Infantry
Infantry is a specialization of military personnel who engage in warfare combat.
Instalaza
Instalaza SA is a Spanish firm that designs, develops and manufactures equipment and other military material for infantry.
Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.
Jagdtiger
The Jagdtiger ("Hunting Tiger"; officially designated Panzerjäger Tiger Ausf. B) is a German casemate-type heavy tank destroyer (Jagdpanzer) of World War II.
Japan Ground Self-Defense Force
The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (Rikujō Jieitai),, also referred to as the Japanese Army, is the land warfare branch of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
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JPEG
JPEG (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.
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Kingdom of Iraq
The Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq (translit) was a state located in the Middle East from 1932 to 1958.
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Korea
Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.
Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
Land mine
A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.
Lend-Lease
Lend-Lease, formally the Lend-Lease Act and introduced as An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, in Milestone Documents, National Archives of the United States, Washington, D.C., retrieved February 8, 2024; (notes: "Passed on March 11, 1941, this act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed 'vital to the defense of the United States.'"; contains photo of the original bill, H.R.
Leslie Skinner
Colonel Leslie Alfred Skinner LOM (April 21, 1900 – November 2, 1978) was an American rocket engineer.
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Liberty (general interest magazine)
Liberty was an American weekly general-interest magazine, originally priced at five cents and subtitled, "A Weekly for Everybody." It was launched in 1924 by McCormick-Patterson, the publisher until 1931, when it was taken over by Bernarr Macfadden until 1941.
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List of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog designation
This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
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Louis A. Johnson
Louis Arthur Johnson (January 10, 1891April 24, 1966) was an American politician and attorney who served as the second United States Secretary of Defense from 1949 to 1950.
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LRAC F1
The LRAC F1, officially called Lance-Roquettes AntiChar de 89 mm modèle F1 (89 mm anti-tank rocket launcher model F1), is a French reusable rocket launcher developed by Luchaire Défense SA, and manufactured in cooperation with Manufacture Nationale d'Armes de Saint-Étienne and was, in the 1970s, marketed by Hotchkiss-Brandt.
M1 carbine
The M1 carbine (formally the United States Carbine, Caliber.30, M1) is a lightweight semi-automatic carbine that was issued to the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Bazooka and m1 carbine are weapons and ammunition introduced in 1942, weapons of the Philippine Army and world War II infantry weapons of Brazil.
M1 Garand
The M1 Garand or M1 rifleOfficially designated as U.S. rifle, caliber.30, M1, later simply called Rifle, Caliber.30, M1, also called US Rifle, Cal.
M1903 Springfield
The M1903 Springfield, officially the U. S. Rifle, Caliber.30, M1903, is an American five-round magazine-fed, bolt-action service repeating rifle, used primarily during the first half of the 20th century. Bazooka and M1903 Springfield are weapons of the Philippine Army and world War II infantry weapons of Brazil.
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M1917 Enfield
The M1917 Enfield, the "American Enfield", formally named "United States Rifle, cal.30, Model of 1917" is an American modification and production of the.303-inch (7.7 mm) Pattern 1914 Enfield (P14) rifle (listed in British Service as Rifle No. 3), which was developed and manufactured during the period 1917–1918. Bazooka and M1917 Enfield are weapons of the Philippine Army.
M1A1
M1A1, M1-A1, M1 A1, or M-1A1 may refer to.
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M2 flamethrower
The M2 flamethrower was an American, man-portable, backpack flamethrower that was used in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Bazooka and m2 flamethrower are world War II infantry weapons of Brazil and world War II infantry weapons of the United States.
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M67 recoilless rifle
The M67 recoilless rifle is a 90 mm (3.55 inch) anti-tank recoilless rifle made in the United States and later in South Korea.
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M7 grenade launcher
The M7 grenade launcher, formally rifle grenade launcher, M7, was a 22 mm rifle grenade launcher attachment for the M1 Garand rifle that saw widespread use throughout World War II and the Korean War. Bazooka and m7 grenade launcher are weapons of the Philippine Army and world War II infantry weapons of the United States.
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M72 LAW
The M72 LAW (light anti-tank weapon, also referred to as the light anti-armor weapon or LAW as well as LAWS: light anti-armor weapons system) is a portable one-shot unguided anti-tank weapon. Bazooka and M72 LAW are anti-tank rockets of the United States.
M9 rifle grenade
The M9 rifle grenade was an American anti-tank rifle grenade used during World War II. Bazooka and M9 rifle grenade are world War II infantry weapons of the United States.
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Machine gun
A machine gun (MG) is a fully automatic and rifled firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges. Bazooka and machine gun are American inventions.
Magneto
A magneto is an electrical generator that uses permanent magnets to produce periodic pulses of alternating current.
Mainland Southeast Asia
Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.
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Man-portable air-defense system
Man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS or MPADS) are portable surface-to-air missiles.
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Man-portable anti-tank systems
Man-portable anti-tank systems (MANPATS or MPATS) are traditionally portable shoulder-launched projectile systems firing heavy shell-type projectiles (although throwing and lunge weapons have existed), typically designed to combat protected targets, such as armoured vehicles, field fortifications and at times even low-flying aircraft (especially helicopters). Bazooka and Man-portable anti-tank systems are anti-tank weapons.
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Maquis (World War II)
The Maquis were rural guerrilla bands of French and Belgian Resistance fighters, called maquisards, during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II.
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Materiel
Materiel is supplies, equipment, and weapons in military supply-chain management, and typically supplies and equipment in a commercial supply chain context.
Mortar (weapon)
A mortar today is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded cannon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and a sight.
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Mount Wilson Observatory
The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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National Army Museum
The National Army Museum is the British Army's central museum.
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National Defense Research Committee
The National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) was an organization created "to coordinate, supervise, and conduct scientific research on the problems underlying the development, production, and use of mechanisms and devices of warfare" in the United States from June 27, 1940, until June 28, 1941.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Bazooka and nuclear weapon are American inventions.
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Operation Northwind (1944)
Operation Northwind (Unternehmen Nordwind) was the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front.
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Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.
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Operation Torch
Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942) was an Allied invasion of French North Africa during the Second World War.
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Operation Vantage
Operation Vantage was a British military operation in 1961 to support the newly independent state of Kuwait against territorial claims by its neighbour, Iraq.
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Osprey Publishing
Osprey Publishing is a British publishing company specializing in military history based in Oxford.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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P. G. Wodehouse
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.
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Panther tank
The Panther tank, officially Panzerkampfwagen V Panther (abbreviated PzKpfw V) with ordnance inventory designation: Sd.Kfz. 171, is a German medium tank of World War II.
Panzer III
The Panzerkampfwagen III, commonly known as the Panzer III, was a medium tank developed in the 1930s by Germany, and was used extensively in World War II.
Panzerschreck
Panzerschreck (lit. "tank fright", "tank's fright" or "tank's bane") was the popular name for the Raketenpanzerbüchse 54 ("Rocket Anti-armor Rifle Model 54", abbreviated to RPzB 54), an 88 mm reusable anti-tank rocket launcher developed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Bazooka and Panzerschreck are anti-tank weapons.
Pillbox (military)
A pillbox is a type of blockhouse, or concrete dug-in guard-post, often camouflaged, normally equipped with loopholes through which defenders can fire weapons.
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Piper J-3 Cub
The Piper J-3 Cub is an American light aircraft that was built between 1938 and 1947 by Piper Aircraft.
Plunging fire
Plunging fire is a form of indirect fire, where gunfire is fired at a trajectory to make it fall on its target from above.
Popular Science
Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is a U.S. popular science website, covering science and technology topics geared toward general readers.
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Portuguese Armed Forces
The Portuguese Armed Forces (Forças Armadas) are the military of Portugal.
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Portuguese Colonial War
The Portuguese Colonial War (Guerra Colonial Portuguesa), also known in Portugal as the Overseas War or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation, and also known as the Angolan, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambican War of Independence, was a 13-year-long conflict fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974.
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Potomac River
The Potomac River is a major river in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States that flows from the Potomac Highlands in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
Provisional Irish Republican Army
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
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Recoilless rifle
A recoilless rifle (rifled), recoilless launcher (smoothbore), or simply recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated to "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant gas from the rear of the weapon at the moment of firing, creating forward thrust that counteracts most of the weapon's recoil. Bazooka and recoilless rifle are anti-tank weapons.
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Republic of Korea Armed Forces
The Republic of Korea Armed Forces, also known as the ROK Armed Forces, are the armed forces of South Korea.
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Reticle
A reticle, or reticule also known as a graticule, is a pattern of fine lines or markings built into the eyepiece of an optical device such as a telescopic sight, spotting scope, theodolite, optical microscope or the screen of an oscilloscope, to provide measurement references during visual inspections.
Reverse engineering
Reverse engineering (also known as backwards engineering or back engineering) is a process or method through which one attempts to understand through deductive reasoning how a previously made device, process, system, or piece of software accomplishes a task with very little (if any) insight into exactly how it does so.
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Rifle grenade
A rifle grenade is a grenade that uses a rifle-based launcher to permit a longer effective range than would be possible if the grenade were thrown by hand.
RL-83 Blindicide
The RL-83 Blindicide is mainly an anti-tank warfare rocket launcher, but other types of rounds can be fired.
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Robert H. Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926.
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Robert R. Martin
Robert Reinhold Martin (15 April 1902 – 8 July 1950) was a United States Army officer who served in World War II and the Korean War.
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Rocket launcher
A rocket launcher is a weapon that launches an unguided, rocket-propelled projectile.
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Rocket-propelled grenade
A rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) is a shoulder-fired rocket weapon that launches rockets equipped with an explosive warhead.
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Shaped charge
A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. Bazooka and shaped charge are anti-tank weapons.
Shoulder-fired missile
Shoulder-fired missile, shoulder-launched missile or man-portable missile, among other variants, are common slang-terms to describe high-caliber shoulder-mounted weapons systems – that is: weapons firing large heavy projectiles ("missiles"), typically using the backblast principle, which are small enough to be carried by a single person and fired while held on one's shoulder.
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Solid-propellant rocket
A solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). Bazooka and solid-propellant rocket are American inventions.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Spanish Army
The Spanish Army (lit) is the terrestrial army of the Spanish Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations.
Stars and Stripes (newspaper)
Stars and Stripes is a daily American military newspaper reporting on matters concerning the members of the United States Armed Forces and their communities, with an emphasis on those serving outside the United States.
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T-34
The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank from World War II.
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The New York Sun
The New York Sun is an American conservative news website and former newspaper based in Manhattan, New York.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Troubles
The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.
Tiger I
The Tiger I was a German heavy tank of World War II that began operational duty in 1942 in Africa and in the Soviet Union, usually in independent heavy tank battalions.
Tiger II
The Tiger II was a German heavy tank of the Second World War. The final official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B, often shortened to Tiger B.Jentz and Doyle 1993, p. 16. The ordnance inventory designation was Sd.Kfz. 182. (Sd.Kfz. 267 and 268 for command vehicles). It was also known informally as the Königstiger (German for Bengal tiger).
Trần Đại Nghĩa
Trần Đại Nghĩa (13 September 1913 – 9 August 1997) was a Vietnamese scientist, military engineer, and prominent figure in the defense industry of Vietnam.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
Tunis
Tunis (تونس) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia.
Twopence (British pre-decimal coin)
The British twopence (2d) coin was a denomination of sterling coinage worth two pennies or of a pound.
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Type 4 70 mm AT rocket launcher
The Type 4 70 mm AT rocket launcher was a Japanese rocket launcher used during the last year of World War II.
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Type 69 RPG
The Type 69 85mm RPG, made by Norinco, is a Chinese variant of the Soviet RPG-7.
United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Army Ordnance Corps
The United States Army Ordnance Corps, formerly the United States Army Ordnance Department, is a sustainment branch of the United States Army, headquartered at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia.
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United States Army Signal Corps
The United States Army Signal Corps (USASC) is a branch of the United States Army that creates and manages communications and information systems for the command and control of combined arms forces.
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Vehicle armour
Military vehicles are commonly armoured (or armored; see spelling differences) to withstand the impact of shrapnel, bullets, shells, rockets, and missiles, protecting the personnel inside from enemy fire.
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Viet Cong
The Viet Cong was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.
Viet Minh
The Việt Minh (abbreviated from Việt Nam Độc lập Đồng minh, 越南獨立同盟; Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam) was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1941.
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
War Office
The War Office has referred to several British government organisations in history, all relating to the army.
Weaponology
Weaponology is a documentary television series that premiered on November 6, 2007 on the Discovery Channel.
Welding helmet
A welding helmet is a type of personal protective equipment used in performing certain types of welding to protect the eyes, face, and neck from flash burn, sparks, infrared and ultraviolet light, and intense heat.
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Western Desert campaign
The Western Desert campaign (Desert War) took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African campaign of the Second World War.
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White phosphorus munitions
White phosphorus munitions are weapons that use one of the common allotropes of the chemical element phosphorus.
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Willys MB
The Willys MB and the Ford GPW, both formally called the U.S. Army Truck, ton, 4×4, Command Reconnaissance, commonly known as the Willys Jeep, Jeep, or jeep, and sometimes referred to by its Standard Army vehicle supply nr. G-503,According to its United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalog designation, 'G-number', or SNL nr.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from 6 to 25 October 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria.
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Yugoslav Partisans
The Yugoslav Partisans,Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene: Partizani, Партизани or the National Liberation Army,Народноослободилачка војска (НОВ); Народноослободителна војска (НОВ); Narodnoosvobodilna vojska (NOV) officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia,Народноослободилачка војска и партизански одреди Југославије (НОВ и ПОЈ); Народноослободителна војска и партизански одреди на Југославија (НОВ и ПОЈ); Narodnoosvobodilna vojska in partizanski odredi Jugoslavije (NOV in POJ) was the communist-led anti-fascist resistance to the Axis powers (chiefly Nazi Germany) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
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24th Infantry Division (United States)
The 24th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the United States Army that was inactivated in October 1996.
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34th Infantry Regiment (United States)
The 34th Infantry Regiment (special designation "Leyte Dragons") is a Regular Army infantry regiment of the United States Army.
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See also
Anti-tank rockets of the United States
Anti-tank weapons
- 2A28 Grom
- 55 S 55
- 95 S 58-61
- 9M133M Kornet-M
- Anti-tank dog
- Anti-tank grenade
- Anti-tank guided missiles
- Anti-tank gun
- Anti-tank guns
- Anti-tank missile carrier
- Anti-tank obstacles
- Anti-tank rifles
- Anti-tank rockets
- Anti-tank warfare
- BL755
- BLU-108
- Bazooka
- Beyond-armour effect
- Blacker Bombard
- Brilliant Anti-Tank
- CBU-100 Cluster Bomb
- CBU-97 Sensor Fuzed Weapon
- Carl Gustaf 8.4 cm recoilless rifle
- List of man-portable anti-tank systems
- Lunge mine
- M60 recoilless gun
- Man-portable anti-tank systems
- Miniman
- Model 1968 recoilless gun
- Northover Projector
- PBK-500U Drel
- PIAT
- Pansarvärnspjäs 1110
- Panzerfaust
- Panzerschreck
- Recoilless rifle
- Recoilless rifles
- Satchel charge
- Self-propelled anti-tank gun
- Shaped charge
- Solothurn-Arsenal
- Sturmpistole
- Tank destroyer
- Tank destroyers
- Top-attack
- Vickers 40 mm Class S gun
- XM1111 Mid-Range Munition
World War II infantry weapons of Brazil
- Bazooka
- Hotchkiss M1922 machine gun
- Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine gun
- Luger pistol
- M1 carbine
- M1903 Springfield
- M1911 pistol
- M1917 Revolver
- M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
- M1919 Browning machine gun
- M2 Browning
- M2 flamethrower
- M3 submachine gun
- M50 Reising
- MP 18
- Madsen machine gun
- Mauser Model 1908
- Thompson submachine gun
World War II infantry weapons of the United States
- BEANO T-13 grenade
- Bangalore torpedo
- Bazooka
- Browning Auto-5
- Frangible Grenade M1
- Ka-Bar
- M1 flamethrower
- M1 grenade adapter
- M1 mine
- M1 mortar
- M17 rifle grenade
- M18 recoilless rifle
- M1905 bayonet
- M1911 pistol
- M1917 Browning machine gun
- M1917 bayonet
- M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle
- M1941 Johnson rifle
- M2 4.2-inch mortar
- M2 Browning
- M2 Hyde
- M2 flamethrower
- M2 mortar
- M20 recoilless rifle
- M3 trench knife
- M4 bayonet
- M7 grenade launcher
- M7 mine
- M9 rifle grenade
- MK3 grenade
- Mark I trench knife
- Mk 2 grenade
- Satchel charge
- Smith & Wesson Model 10
- United Defense M42
- United States Marine Raider stiletto
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka
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