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SERVICE PISTOL
A service pistol is any handgun issued to military personnel or law enforcement officers.
Typically service pistols are revolvers or semi-automatic pistols issued to officers, noncommissioned officers, and rear-echelon support personnel for self defense, though
service pistols may also be issued to special forces as a backup for their primary
weapons. Pistols are not typically issued to front-line infantry.
Before firearms were commonplace, officers typically carried swords instead.

HAND GRENADE
A hand grenade is any small bomb that can be thrown by hand. A variety of hand
grenades exist, the most common being explosive grenades designed to detonate after
impact or after a set amount of time.
Grenadiers were originally soldiers who specialized in throwing grenades.

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MACHINE GUN
A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, designed to
fire bullets in quick succession from anammunition belt or magazine, typically at a rate of
three hundred to eighteen hundred rounds per minute. Fully automatic weapons are
generally categorized as submachine guns, assault rifles, battle rifles, automatic shotguns,
machine guns, orautocannons.
As a class of military firearms, true machine guns are fully automatic weapons designed
to be used as support weapons and generally used when attached to a mount or fired from
the ground on a bipod or tripod. Light machine guns are small enough to be fired handheld, but are more effective when fired from a prone position. The difference between
machine guns and other categories of weapons is based on caliber, with autocannons
using calibers larger than 20 mm,[1] and whether the gun fires conventional
bullets, shotgun cartridges, or explosive rounds. Fully automatic guns firing shotgun
cartridges are usually called automatic shotguns, and those firing large-caliber explosive
rounds are generally considered either autocannons or automatic grenade
launchers ("grenade machine guns"). Submachine guns are hand-held automatic weapons
for personal defense or short-range combat firing pistol-caliber rounds. In contrast to
submachine guns and autocannons, machine guns (like rifles) tend to have a very high
ratio of barrel length to caliber (a long barrel for a small caliber); indeed, a true machine
gun is essentially a fully automatic rifle, and often the primary criterion for a machine
gun as opposed to a battle rifle is the presence of a quick-change barrel, heavyweight
barrel, or other cooling system. Battle rifles and assault rifles may be capable of fully
automatic fire, but are not designed for sustained fire.

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rocket
A shoulder-fired missile, shoulder-launched missile or man-portable missile is
a projectile fired at a target, small enough to be carried by a single person, and fired while
held on one's shoulder. The word missile in this context is used in its original broad sense
which encompasses all guided missiles and unguided rockets. In many instances,
although not technically defining all shoulder-fired missiles, the name Bazooka is used as
an informal name regularly, although the actual Bazooka is a type of original shoulderfired missile in its own right.

BAYONET
A bayonet (from French baonnette) is a knife, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed
to fit in, on, over or underneath the muzzle of a rifle, musket or similar weapon, turning
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weapon. Some modern bayonets can be used as barbed wire-cutter when combined with
their scabbards.
However, knife-shaped bayonetswhen not fixed to a gun barrelhave long been
utilized by soldiers in the field as general purpose cutting implements.

TANK
A tank is a large type of armoured fighting vehicle with tracks, designed for frontline combat. Modern tanks are mobile land weapons platforms, mounting a largecalibre cannon in a rotating gun turret. They combine this with heavy vehicle
armour providing protection for the crew, the vehicle's weapons, and its propulsion
systems, and operational mobility, which allows them to position on the battlefield in
advantageous locations. These features enable the tank to have enormous capability to
perform well in a tactical situation: the combination of strong weapons fire from
their tank gun and their ability to resist enemy fire means the tank can take hold of and
control an area of the battle and prevent other enemy vehicles from advancing, for
example. In both offensive and defensive roles, they are powerful units able to perform
all primary tasks[which?] required of armoured troops on the battlefield.[1] The modern tank
was the result of a century of development from primitive armoured vehicles, due to
improvements in technology such as the internal combustion engine, which allowed the
rapid movement of heavy armoured vehicles. As a result of these advances, tanks
underwent tremendous shifts in capability during the World Wars of the 20th century.
Tanks in World War I were developed separately and simultaneously by Great
Britain [2] and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western
Front. Their first use in combat was by the British Army on 15 September 1916 between
the villages of Flers and Courcelette, during the Battle of the Somme. The name "tank"
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was adopted by the British during the early stages of their development, as a security
measure to conceal their purpose (see etymology). While the French and British built
thousands of tanks between them, Germany was unconvinced of the tank's potential, and
built only twenty of her own.

ANTI TANK-WARFARE
anti-tank warfare arose as a result of the need to develop technology and tactics to
destroy tanks during the First World War. Since the first tanks were developed by the
allies in 1916 but not principally used till 1917 the first anti-tank weapon was developed
by Germany. It was a scaled up bolt action rifle designated the Mauser Tank-Gewehr
Model 1918 that fired a 13mm cartridge with a solid bullet that could penetrate the thin
armor of tanks of the time and destroy the engine or ricochet inside killing occupants.
[1]
Because tanks represent an enemy's greatest force projection (aside from nuclear
artillery and tank vs. tank engagements), anti-tank warfare has been incorporated into the
doctrine of nearly every combat service since. The predominant anti-tank weapons at the
start of the Second World War were the tank-mounted gun, limbered (towed) anti-tank
guns and anti-tank grenades used by the infantry as well as ground-attack aircraft such as
theJunkers Ju 87 Stuka

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AK-47
The AK-47 (also known as Kalashnikov, AK, or in Russian slang, Kalash) is a selectivefire (semi-automatic and automatic),gas-operated 7.6239mm assault rifle, developed in
the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known in the Soviet
documentation as Avtomat Kalashnikova (Russian: ).
Design work on the AK-47 began in the last year of World War II (1945). After the war in
1946, the AK-47 was presented for official military trials. In 1948, the fixed-stock
version was introduced into active service with selected units of the Soviet Army. An
early development of the design was the AKS (SSkladnoy or "folding"), which was
equipped with an underfolding metalshoulder stock. In 1949, the AK-47 was officially
accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces[8] and used by the majority of the member states of
the Warsaw Pact.

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Even after six decades the model and its variants remain the most popular and widely
used assault rifles in the world because of their substantial reliability under harsh
conditions, low production costs compared to contemporary Western weapons,
availability in virtually every geographic region and ease of use. The AK-47 has been
manufactured in many countries and has seen service with armed forces as well
as irregular forces worldwide, and was the basis for developing many other types of
individual and crew-served firearms. As of 2004, out of the estimated 500 million
firearms worldwide, approximately 100 million belong to the Kalashnikov family, threequarters of which are AK-47

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