Gun dynamics describes the physical causes of barrel and shot vibration, and the effect they may have on accuracy and consistency. It is employed to predict...
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manufactured by General Dynamics Land Systems for the U.S. Army. The MGS program emerged after the 1996 cancelation of the Army's M8 armored gun system, the service's...
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called General Dynamics Ajax), but it only has six road wheels. The welded aluminum turret is armed with 120mm XM360 lightweight gun which was developed...
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True Velocity RM338 (redirect from Lightweight Medium Machine Gun)
formerly Lightweight Medium Machine Gun (LWMMG), is a prototype machine gun being developed first by General Dynamics, later by LoneStar Future Weapons...
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M2 Browning (redirect from .50-calibre machine gun)
Herstal (Fabrique Nationale) has manufactured the M2 machine gun since the 1930s. General Dynamics, U.S. Ordnance and Ohio Ordnance Works Inc. are other current...
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ASCOD (category General Dynamics land vehicles)
Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG and Spanish General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas. Both companies are now divisions of a unit of General Dynamics. The ASCOD family includes...
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Vehicle), is a group of armoured fighting vehicles being developed by General Dynamics UK for the British Army. It has suffered serious development and production...
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GAU-19 (redirect from GAU-19/A machine gun)
29 March 2011. "General Dynamics Selected to Develop Turreted Gun System for V-22 Aircraft" (Press release). General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products...
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XM291 (category Tank guns of the United States)
14. ISBN 1855322838. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH U.S. ARMY SYMPOSIUM ON GUN DYNAMICS VOLUME I OF II (PDF). 1990. pp. 236–237. Archived from the original (PDF)...
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XM312 (category .50 BMG machine guns)
The XM312 is a heavy machine gun derived from the XM307 25 mm autocannon and chambered for the .50 BMG cartridge. It was designed in response to a request...
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M61 Vulcan (redirect from Vulcan (gun))
incorporated the M61 gun internally. The Vulcan was later fitted into the weapons bay of some Convair F-106 Delta Dart and General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark models...
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GAU-8 Avenger (redirect from 30mm Gatling gun)
Specialty Press. ISBN 1-58007-013-2. "Armament Systems: Aircraft Gun Systems". General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products. Archived from the original...
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M10 Booker (category General Dynamics land vehicles)
New Mobile Assault Gun". Popular Mechanics. 21 June 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2023. Eversden, Andrew (28 June 2022). "General Dynamics wins $1.14 billion...
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M197 electric cannon (redirect from M197 Gatling gun)
gun. The XM301 was an improved M197 intended to be the gun on the later canceled RAH-66 Comanche. The weapon's current contractor is General Dynamics...
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The Saab Bofors Dynamics CBJ-MS is a personal defense weapon/submachine gun designed and manufactured by Swedish weapon developer CBJ Tech AB, and was...
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recoilless gun Carl-Gustaf M3 (M3 MAAWS) 84 mm anti-tank recoilless rifle RBS-56 Bill ATGM RBS 56 Bill 2 ATGM NLAW ATGM Bofors 40 mm Saab Bofors Dynamics CBJ-MS...
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GAU-12 Equalizer (category Multi-barrel machine guns)
The General Dynamics GAU-12/U Equalizer is a five-barrel 25 mm Gatling-type rotary cannon. The GAU-12/U is used by the United States, Italy and Spain,...
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lost out to the General Motors–General Dynamics' LAV III, which was type classified as the Stryker M1128 mobile gun system. BAE Systems offered the AGS system...
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Santa Bárbara Sistemas (redirect from General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas)
acquired by General Dynamics Europe in July 2001.[citation needed] In June 2024 SBS announced the reactivation of its artillery gun barrel manufacturing...
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M1 Abrams (category General Dynamics land vehicles)
third-generation American main battle tank designed by Chrysler Defense (now General Dynamics Land Systems) and named for General Creighton Abrams. Conceived for modern...
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M247 Sergeant York (redirect from Sergeant York Gun)
Parsch, "General Dynamics MIM-46 Mauler", 2002 Andreas Parsch, "Ford MIM-72 Chaparral", 2002 Irene Willhite, "40-mm DIVISION AIR DEFENSE GUN: DIVAD (Sgt....
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M134 Minigun (redirect from GE M-134 Electric Chain Gun)
The M134 Minigun is an American 7.62×51mm NATO six-barrel rotary machine gun with a high rate of fire (2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute). It features...
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SNT Dynamics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023. "Guns & Artillery Systems" (PDF). SNT Dynamics. Archived...
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M256 is an American 120 mm smoothbore tank gun. It is a licensed-built German-designed Rheinmetall Rh-120 L44 gun tube and combustible cartridges with an...
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Mobile Protected Firepower (category Assault guns)
a variant of the AGS to meet the Mobile Gun System requirement; however the Army selected the General Dynamics Land Systems 8×8 LAV III derivative. The...
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Rheinmetall Rh-120 (redirect from M256 smoothbore gun)
The Rheinmetall Rh-120 is a 120 mm smoothbore tank gun designed and produced in former West Germany by the Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH company. It...
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XM360 (category Tank guns of the United States)
American experimental 120 mm tank gun developed by U.S. Army's Watervliet Arsenal, Benét Laboratories for use by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) on one...
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XM806 (category Machine gun stubs)
XM806 Lightweight .50 Caliber Machine Gun (LW50MG) was a developmental .50 caliber belt-fed heavy machine gun. Development began in 2009 and was cancelled...
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Stryker (category General Dynamics land vehicles)
effort: In January 1999, General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS)–Canada integrated its Low Profile Turret (LPT) onto an assault gun version of the LAV III. The...
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