author: chris mcnab

Small Arms 1870-1950

The book includes some of the best-known weapons of the era, such as the Luger pistol, Mosin-Nagant rifle, Thompson M1928 submachine gun, Sten Gun, and Browning M2HB heavy machine gun.

The D-Day Training Pocket Manual, 1944: Instructions on Amphibious Landings, Glider-Borne Forces, Paratroop Landings and Hand-to-Hand Fighting

... line is one which prescribes the minimum distance beyond the beachhead line to which security detachments will be pushed by units occupying the beachhead line. Active reconnaissance will be conducted in the prescribed zone by designated ...

The M4 Carbine

Profusely illustrated with photographs and artworks, and drawing its research from the latest declassified documents, this is a complete guide to one of the most important and widely distributed tactical infantry weapons of the last quarter ...

The Uzi Submachine Gun

This book presents the facts and challenges the myths surrounding this remarkable weapon.

Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network

... CORE IMPACT supports CVE2000-0573 and CVE-2001-0550 (glob() heap overflow), and Immunity CANVAS only supports CVE ... pro.tar.gz, proftpd.c, and proftpX.c MSF has no exploit modules for ProFTPD at the time of writing. CORE IMPACT ...

The U.S. Army Infantryman Pocket Manual 1941–45: ETO & MTO

This pocket manual presents critical insights from many of these sources, but also draws on a broad spectrum of intelligence reports, after-action reports, and other rare publications.

Hitler's Masterplan: The Essential Facts and Figures for Hitler's Third Reich

What if Nazi Germany had been victorious in World War II? Hitler’s Masterplan reveals the true scale of Hitler’s vision for a world dominated by Nazism, and includes exhaustive reference tables, diagrams, colourful maps and charts, ...

Armies of the Napoleonic Wars: An Illustrated History

This book provides a comprehensive guide to all the major armies of the Napoleonic Wars - France, Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, and Portugal - as well as many of the minor powers.

Soviet Submachine Guns of World War II: PPD-40, PPSh-41 and PPS

With numerous first-hand combat accounts, and detailed technical explanations, this book is ideal for both the general reader and the firearms enthusiast.

The Uzi Submachine Gun

The full extent of its capabilities, however, are not thoroughly understood, and this book presents the facts and challenges the myths of this remarkable weapon.

German Automatic Rifles 1941–45: Gew 41, Gew 43, FG 42 and StG 44

... bolt - action rifle was , during the first half of the 20th century ... Bang . During the 1890s and the early years of the 20th century , both ... Bang rifles ( he developed several such firearms ) used a system in which a muzzle cone ...

Famous Battles of the Early Modern Period

... 2018 Amber Books Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Additional end matter copyright ... Archive), 111 (Bibliotheque Nationale), 126 (Cameraphoto), 128–129 ... da Cunha), 196–197 (Erich Lessing), 198 (IAM), 244 (Coll. Archiv F. Kunst & Geschichte) ...

Weapons of the US Special Operations Command

... accessories – most modern assault rifles now come with rails mounted on the ... M4 series of carbines , is by far the most prevalent of the assault - rifle ... carbine version , variously known as the CAR - 15 , Colt Commando , XM177E2 ...

Coalition Armor vs Iraqi Forces: Iraq 2003–06

... Army , Team C , 3d Battalion , 15th Infantry Regiment : https://www ... Case Study in the Accelerated Acquisition of a Digital Command and Control ... Studies . Cordesman , Anthony ( July 21 , 2003 ) . Lessons of the Iraq War : Main ...

Walker Bulldog vs T-54: Laos and Vietnam 1971–75

... DShKM machine gun is not boxed ; typically , the ammunition would be in a container . The DShKM machine gun had a maximum range of up to 3,000m . ( PHAN KHÁC DUONG , PHAN THANK GIAN / AFP / Getty 6 Images ) CH of infantry armor ...

Samurai Warrior Operations Manual: Daily Life * Fighting Tactics * Religion * Art * Weapons

Samurai Warrior Operations Manual examines the Samurai world: the moral and psychological development of the warrior, the ethical standards they were meant to uphold, their training in both martial arts and strategy, and the enormous role ...

The FN Minimi Light Machine Gun: M249, L108A1, L110A2, and other variants

In 1974, renowned Belgian arms company Fabrique Nationale brought out a ground-breaking new light machine gun, the Minimi.

Soviet Submachine Guns of World War II: PPD-40, PPSh-41 and PPS

... Carl Gustav: M45 23 chamber 10, 14, 25, 26, 28, 60, 63, 64, 65, 78 China 23, 61, 62 Chuikov, Vasily 39 closed bolt 25, 72, 78 Cold War 22, 23, 61, 68 cyclical rate of fire 32, 56 Degtyaryov, Vasily Alekseyevich 8, 10, 11, 17 Degtyaryov ...

Stars and Galaxies

... difference to gauge distances to nearby objects. For a more distant object, such as a far-off mountain peak, the few inches between ... brightness. the orbit of the earth around the sun. this allows them to make ... two points— reveals its ...

Weapons of the US Special Operations Command

The units and formations of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) have privileged access to the finest weaponry in the world's arsenal.

MG 34 and MG 42 Machine Guns

Featuring specially commissioned full-colour artwork and drawing upon numerous technical manuals and first-hand accounts, this study explores the technological development, varied roles and lasting influence of the revolutionary MG 34 and ...

Survive at Sea with the U.S. Navy SEALs

The U.S. Navy Seals have become the world's best at surviving and operating at sea. The secrets of their survival techniques are contained here.

Special Forces Survival Guide: Wilderness Survival Skills from the World's Most Elite Military Units

SURVIVE HARSH TERRAIN, EXTREME CONDITIONS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATIONS Packed with tips, tricks, and clear instructions, Special Forces Survival Guide presents the vital techniques used by the world's best trained soldiers to stay alive ...

Small Arms: An Illustrated History

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Waffen-SS Soldier vs Soviet Rifleman: Rostov-on-Don and Kharkov 1942–43

... PPSh-41 could therefore provide, to a degree and over a range of up to 250m ... barrel gas-operated weapon firing at 550rd/min from a 47-round pan magazine ... barrel and magazine feed limited the firepower, while the PM M1910/30 had the ...

The Barrett Rifle: Sniping and anti-materiel rifles in the War on Terror

... Barrett M468, a variant of the M4 carbine but chambered for the heavier 6.8 SPC round.) The more modern REC7, released in 2007, moved away from the direct-impingement gas system of the M468 to embrace a short-stroke gas piston. It is ...

The SVD Dragunov Rifle

... PSL from the SVD is that the PSL magazine has a large ' X ' pressed into its body . ( AMISOM Public Information / Wikimedia / CC0 1.0 ). OSPREY PUBLISHING Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Kemp House , Chawley Park , Cumnor Hill , Oxford OX2 9PH ...

Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network

... Win32 utility called ikeprobe, which you can use to force a target VPN gateway into using aggressive mode IKE and ... DH Groups 1,2 and 5 This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition 266 | Chapter11: AssessingIPVPN Services Example 11 ...

Network Security Assessment: Know Your Network

... Win32 utility called ikeprobe, which you can use to force a target VPN gateway into using aggressive mode IKE and ... DH Groups 1,2 and 5 266 | Chapter11: Assessing IP VPN Services This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition Example ...

How the Universe Works

... Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), but from Earth, we have a side-on view. Like the LMC, the main bulge is not central, but concentrated to one side. NGC. 6822. One of the nearest galaxies ... commonly found inspiral galaxies. Yet the radio data ...

Shuttles and Space Missions

... 17–18, 18 Glenn, John, 7, 9, 14, 17, 18 about, 17–18 career timeline, 18 ... Center, 51 Johnson, Caldwell, 63 Jupiter class rockets, 27 kadenyuk, Leonid, 44, 44 ... Maneuvering System (OMS) engines, 40 orbiter, 39, 53, 55, 57 O-rings, 46 ...

Greek Hoplite vs Persian Warrior: 499–479 BC

Fully illustrated with modern photographs and archival images, and drawing directly on primary sources and the most authoritative recent research, this is the enthralling story of the fighting men of Greece and Persia and the tactics and ...

The M4 Carbine

... Colt 653, or M16A1 carbine. Like the C7 rifle, the C8 carbine features higher-quality components in some aspects, but it essentially has the same schematic layout, performance, and operating characteristics as the M4A1. The C8 has.

A History of the World in 100 Weapons

This book reveals the weapons that had the greatest impact on our history, explaining how and why they came to prominence, and uncovers the lasting effect they had on the world.

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