Weapons carrier

Heuschrecke (Ger for Grasshopper). A series of weapon carriers (Waffentrager) such as for 105 mm Gun, developed by the Germans early in the WW II. They are described in vol 111 of the Illustrated Record of German Army Equipment 1939-1945, War Office, London (1947)... 

We returned at the end of a full day s work. At dinner that night, an officer told me that the high officer had examined the site and found no need for meteorological measurements. The next day three soldiers and I took a small fast boat to Key West, and we went back to Bushnell in a six passenger weapon carrier. 

During World War II, nylon became an Allied weapon, along with Carothers Neoprene, Midgley s tetraethyl lead and Freon, and DDT (Chapter 8). The military diverted all available nylon for use in parachutes, airplane tire cords, glider towropes, tents, and the like. Nylon tires enabled bombers and carrier planes fueled with tetraethyl lead to withstand overloading. 

Ricin mixed with DMSO would be an outstanding weapon, both subtle and deadly. The problem is that ricin doesn t dissolve properly m DMSO. Sane success has been achieved with ricin dissolved in a slightly add solution (pH4) and then mixed with DMSO, but further experimentation is needed. For seme reason that is not yet clearly understood, 90% DMSO and 10% water works better as a carrier agent then 100% DMSO. In feet, concentrations as low as 70% will wok almost as well as 90%... 

The Buccaneer, with its capacity to carry nuclear weapons, was central to the Admiralty s vision of the aircraft carrier as the modem equivalent of the capital ship. In a remarkable paper, dated 2 March 1954, the Admiralty set out its views on expected trends in naval weapons down to the end of 1965. The news of the American hydrogen-bomb tests came too late to influence the paper, which, however, assumed that atomic weapons would be plentiful that the importance of air attack would increase but that long-range detection of submarines and torpedo countermeasures would reduce the underwater threat to surface ships. It was predicted that by the 1960s carrier-borne aircraft would carry nuclear weapons and would contribute to the strategic air offensive aircraft and 200-mile-range anti-ship missiles would have begun to... 

Common explosives like TNT, RDX and HMX were considered adequate for all weapon applications, but these explosives have now become less attractive due to a number of accidents involving initiation of munitions by impact or shock aboard ships, aircraft carriers and ammunition trains. So there is a trend of current research worldwide to synthesize explosives which have high performance coupled with low sensitivity. 

Sabot is a French term for a wooden shoe made of one piece, worn by peasants in Belgium, France and Holland, In Ordnance, sabot means a lightweight carrier, (usually made of brittle metal or plastic) in which a subcalibet projectile (core) is encircled. The sabot diameter is about twice as large as that of the core and it. fills the bore of the gun. The principle of "sabot projectile is to allow its firing from large caliber weapon in order to have a larger surface exposed to pressure... 

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