British Legend: The Sun Never Sets on the Lee-Enfield Rifle
Outside of England, at least 46 nations adopted the SMLE in its various guises, according to one estimate.
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Outside of England, at least 46 nations adopted the SMLE in its various guises, according to one estimate. India and Pakistan continue to use thousands of SMLEs, though they are no longer frontline weapons. Some Afghan fighters prefer the Lee-Enfield for its superior range compared to the AK-47.
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A small party of about 40 German soldiers had infiltrated the Australian lines around the besieged town of Tobruk, Libya, during the night of April 13, 1941. They began setting up a half dozen machine guns, several mortars, and even a pair of small infantry guns laboriously dragged through the desert sands. It was a foothold the Germans could use to expand into the perimeter and capture the town. They began firing at the nearest Australian unit, B Company of the 2-17 I
They had weak armor, were easily spotted, and didn t have good firepower.
Here s What You Need To Know: These tanks were deadly, but to their own crews.
Recently, a Russian military museum in Sverdlovsk unveiled a moving replica T-35 tank, recreating one of the largest tanks ever to see combat, though only
very briefly. Indeed, a few dozen T-35s charged straight into the largest tank battle in history and none came back. Overtaxed transmission and faulty clutches proved a greater nemesis than armor-piercing shells.
Soviet Land Ironclad
In his 1903 short story, science fiction writer H.G. Wells imagined that the wars of the future would be won by towering ‘Land Ironclads’ a term referencing nineteenth-century armored warships. Just thirteen years, the United Kingdom deployed the first Mark I tanks to battle, each bristling with multiple cannons and machineguns operated by a crew of eight.
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Much of Israel’s history has, for better or worse, been written with guns.
From the 1948 War of Independence to today, Israeli forces have used firearms to defend the state or its interests on almost yearly basis. Images of Israeli forces rushing the West Bank in 1967 or escorting rescued hostages from Entebbe are synonymous with the Jewish State, and some of Israel’s weapons have become quite famous in their own right. Here are five of Israel’s deadliest, and most famous firearms.
Uzi Submachine Gun
In the early years, Israel had little industrial capacity and many countries refused to sell arms to it. As a result, Israel was forced to start up its own arms industry from virtually nothing. Lt. Uziel Gal, an Israeli of German descent, patented a new machine gun that would go on to arm the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The compact “Uzi” was a simple blowback machine gun with a twenty-five or thirty-two-round magazine seated in the pistol grip. The cocking lever resided on