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How to Fire the World's Most Powerful Automatic Weapon

Metal Storm's remote-controlled Redback 40mm weapon system is probably the world's most powerful automatic weapon and a devastating counter attack weapon to all types of threats. Today's automatic weapons have a magazine with bullets that are mechanically loaded into the barrel. This one uses electro...

20 June 2007
10:33 GMT

How to Shoot the World's Most Powerful Sniper Rifle

"One shot, one kill" is the sniper motto, and this can only be accomplished with the help of heavily modified rifles, with hollow wood or fiberglass handles, upgraded trigger mechanisms and high-power optical telescopes.But what is the most powerful sniper rifle in the world? Without a doubt, it's the Barrett M...

18 June 2007
11:21 GMT

How Do Armor Piercing Bullets Work?

What is an armor-piercing bullet? Of course, a bullet that (almost) no armor or bulletproof vest can withstand. And by the way, bulletproof vests don't exist. What you see in the movies are bullet-resistant vests, a more accurate term for modern body armor.The degree of resistance of an armor depends on the mat...

1 June 2007
11:21 GMT

How Do Silencers (Suppressors) Work?

Silencers are more properly called sound moderators or suppressors (since nothing "silences" a weapon completely) and are widely used to reduce noise levels from the discharge of firearms. A sound moderator is essentially no more than a series of baffles coupled to an expansion chamber, contained within a tubular at...

10 April 2007
10:57 GMT

How Does a Sniper Work?

The word "sniper" is understood by most people whi are not military experts as being a lone gunman, who goes undetectable, on the hunt. Army snipers are indeed the best shooters in the world, who hide, line up a target in their sights and pull the trigger, but there actually is a lot more about them that you probabl...

29 March 2007
11:06 GMT


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