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AIM-9B Sidewinder ( A-4Q Skyhawk) Rafael Shafrir 2 ( A-4C Skyhawk, IAI Dagger) R.530 ( Dassault Mirage III) R.550 Magic ( Dassault Mirage III) Air-to-surface missiles. Aérospatiale AM.39 Exocet [9] [5] - The Exocet is probably the most famous weapon of the war, sinking two British ships and damaging a third.
The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island and in Japanese sources as the First Battle of the Solomon Sea (第一次ソロモン海戦, Dai-ichi-ji Soromon Kaisen), and colloquially among Allied Guadalcanal veterans as the Battle of the Five Sitting Ducks, was a naval battle of the Solomon Islands campaign of the Pacific War of World War II between the Imperial ...
German fortification of Guernsey. After the Wehrmacht occupied the Channel Islands on 30 June 1940, they assessed the existing defences to determine if they would be of use. The Germans found the Islands' fortifications antiquated and woefully inadequate for modern warfare. Because the Germans expected to invade the United Kingdom in the autumn ...
The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. The conflict began on 2 April 1982, when Argentina invaded ...
Mode (s) Single-player, multiplayer. Call of Duty: WWII is a 2017 first-person shooter game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It was released worldwide on November 3, 2017 for PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One. It is the fourteenth main installment in the Call of Duty series and the first title in the series to be ...
M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System: C-More Competition: 12 gauge United States: 2002 M1216: SRM Arms: 12 gauge United States: 2010 M30 Luftwaffe Drilling: Sauer & Sohn: 9.3x74mmR 12/65 Gauge Germany: 1941 MAG-7: Techno Arms PTY: 12 gauge South Africa: 1995 Marlin Model 55: Marlin Firearms Company: 10 gauge 12 gauge 16 gauge 20 gauge United ...
A combat shotgun is a shotgun issued by militaries for warfare. [1] The earliest shotguns specifically designed for combat were the trench guns or trench shotguns issued in World War I. While limited in range, the multiple projectiles typically used in a shotgun shell provide increased hit probability unmatched by other small arms.
The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. It was the first major land offensive by Allied forces against the ...