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... aircraft guns Improve- not reach the heights of World War I. In some of the bigger battles the concentration of guns was considerable , but it was never equal to the vast arrays of 1916-18 with their huge expenditure of ammunition . The ...
... aircraft guns Improve- not reach the heights of World War I. In some of the bigger battles the concentration of guns was considerable , but it was never equal to the vast arrays of 1916-18 with their huge expenditure of ammunition . The ...
Page 496
... aircraft artillery . In modern military parlance the term anti - aircraft artillery covers a wide variety of weapons , all products of the 20th century and mostly of post - World War II origin . They range from rockets with a ceiling of ...
... aircraft artillery . In modern military parlance the term anti - aircraft artillery covers a wide variety of weapons , all products of the 20th century and mostly of post - World War II origin . They range from rockets with a ceiling of ...
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... aircraft she controls , and by means of converters known as decoders it can control the operation of missiles , guns , and torpedoes . Missiles . The main armament of the modern warship is the guided missile , four types of which are ...
... aircraft she controls , and by means of converters known as decoders it can control the operation of missiles , guns , and torpedoes . Missiles . The main armament of the modern warship is the guided missile , four types of which are ...
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