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Hand cannon, Ming dynasty, 1379 The first firearms were invented in China, following the invention of gunpowder.The earliest known depiction of a gunpowder weapon is the illustration of a fire lance on a mid-10th century silk banner from Dunhuang. [2]
War is an armed conflict [a] between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organized groups. [2]
The codes are intended for use by air, ground, sea, and space operations personnel at the tactical level. Code words that are followed by an asterisk (*) may differ in meaning from NATO usage. There is a key provided below to describe what personnel use which codes, as codes may have multiple meanings depending on the service.
This table lists all two-letter codes (set 1), one per language for ISO 639 macrolanguage, and some of the three-letter codes of the other sets, formerly parts 2 and 3. Entries in the Scope column distinguish: Individual language; Collections of related languages; Macrolanguages; The Type column distinguishes: Ancient languages (extinct since ...
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied lines largely comprising military trenches, in which combatants are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
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Besides guns, soldiers used a variety of pikes, swords, and bayonets for close range or melee combat. Officers, sergeants, other higher-ranked officials, and cavalry mainly used swords, while the majority of infantry soldiers were equipped with bayonets. The cavalry and engineers of the army essentially carried the same musket as the infantry.
Submachine Guns PP-2000: 9×19mm Parabellum Russia: Submachine gun: Delivered in November 2023. [7] PP-19 Vityaz: 9×19mm Parabellum Russia: Submachine gun: Used by Spetsnaz units. [8] Shotguns KS-23: 23×75mmR Soviet Union: Pump-action combat shotgun: Used by Spetsnaz units. [9] Saiga-12: 12-gauge Russia: Semi-automatic combat shotgun Used by ...