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The F2 is a South African 20 mm cannon that fires high speed (1100 m/s) ammunition at a firing rate of 740 rounds per minute.
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The falcon was a British cannon with a 2.5-inch bore firing a 2 lb shot.
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The falconet was a British cannon with a 2-inch bore firing a 1.5 lb shot.
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Falconet is a Swiss grenade launching personal infantry weapon. The Falconet has a calibre of 24 mm and fires a grenade containing 12 anti-personnel darts to a range of 700 metres at a muzzle velocity of 600 metres per second. The Falconet takes a 5-round box magazine and is fitted with iron sights and a folding bipod.
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The Fei Lung 2 (Flying Dragon) is a Chinese active radar or infra-red homing, ship-borne anti-ship missile with a range of 95 km and a flight speed of 0.9 Mach. It carries a 513 kg warhead.
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The FGM-77a is a US infantry anti-tank missile developed in the 1970s. It has a flight speed of 175 meters-per-second and a maximum range of 1500 metres.
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The FH-70 is a 155 mm split-trail howitzer developed between 1968 and 1974 by a partnership of Britain, Germany and Italy. The FH-70 fires a range of projectiles with a range of 24700 metres and a muzzle velocity of 827 meters-per-second.
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The FH-77A is a Swedish 155 mm howitzer developed during the mid-1980s. The
FH-77A uses hydraulics for elevating the gun and loading and is equipped with an auxiliary engine for moving the gun short distances. The FH-77A fires a 42.4 kg high-explosive shell to a range of 22000 metres with a muzzle velocity of 774 meters-per-second.
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The Krupp FH17 was a German field howitzer first produced for the German army in 1913 and used throughout the Great War. The FH17 had a calibre of 150 mm and fired a 42 kg high-explosive shell to a range of 8500 metres at a muzzle velocity of 365 meters-per-second.
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The FH70 is a NATO mobile field howitzer. It fires, under computer control, three 43 kg shells at a range of 32 km in 15 seconds.
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The Field Gun M1906 was an American field gun first issued in 1906. The
Field Gun M1906 had a calibre of 4.7 inches (120 mm) and fired a 60 lb shrapnel shell to a range of 7270 metres at a muzzle velocity of 518 meters-per-second.
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The Field Gun M1939 was the standard Russian field gun of the Second World War. The Field Gun M1939 was a 76.2 mm calibre weapon firing a 6.4 kg high-explosive shell to a range of 13300 metres with a muzzle velocity of 680 meters-per-second. Many were captured by the invading German army during the Second World War and were used by the German army, also.
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The Field Gun M1942 was the standard Russian field piece of the Second World War, after 1942, designed to be both a field gun and an anti-tank weapon. The Field Gun M1942 was a 76.2 mm calibre weapon firing a 6.2 kg high-explosive shell to a range of 13300 metres with a muzzle velocity of 680 meters-per-second.
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The term field-artillery refers to relatively light ordnance easy of draught, and hence fitted for rapid movements in the field.
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The FIM-43a (Redeye) formerly the XMIM-43A is an American shoulder-fired infantry surface-to-air guided missile. The FIM-43a entered service in 1966 as a defence for troops against fast., low-flying aircraft. The FIM-43a is a 1206 mm long missile weighing 8.2 kg flies at a speed of mach 2.5 to a range of 2 miles using initial optical aiming and infrared homing guidance.
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The FIM-92a (Stinger) is an American man-portable shoulder-fired infantry air-defence missile. It was first used by British SAS troops in the Falklands conflict. The FIM-92a is a 1524 mm long missile powered by a solid propellant dual thrust rocket motor with a separable boost motor, that carries a 3 kg high explosive warhead and flies at a speed of mach 2 to a range of 5 km. It uses optical aiming and passive infrared homing guidance.
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The Krupp FK 1909 was a large German field gun introduced into service in 1909 and discontinued in 1915. The FK 1909 was a 135 mm calibre weapon which fired a 31.7 kg high-explosive shell to a range of 16500 metres at a muzzle velocity of 695 meters-per-second.
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The FK16 was the standard German field gun of the Great War. Developed during the Great War as a modification of the 96 field gun, the FK16 was a 77 mm calibre weapon firing a 7.2 kg high-explosive shell to a range of 9100 metres at a muzzle velocity of 540 meters-per-second.
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The 88 mm Flak 18 was a Swedish designed (by Krupp engineers at the Bofors factory) German 88 mm anti-aircraft gun adopted in 1933. The original Flak 18 had a one-piece barrel, this was changed to a three-piece barrel and given the designation 88 mm Flak 36, a later modification was designated the 88 mm Flak 37. The 88 mm Flak 18 fired a 9.4 kg high-explosive or 9.5 kg armour-piercing shell to an effective ceiling of 8000 metres at a muzzle velocity of 820 meters-per-second and could penetrate 105 mm of armour at 1000 metres. During the Second World War they were also used as very effective anti-tank guns.
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The Flak 30 was a German anti-aircraft gun designed by Rheinmetall and produced in 1934 for the German Navy during the Second World War. It was then adopted by the German Army on a wheeled trailer. The Flak 30 was a recoil operated, magazine fed weapon of 20 mm calibre with a rate of fire of 280 rounds-per-minute, an effective ceiling of 2200 metres and a muzzle velocity of 900 meters-per-second.
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The Flak 36 was a German 37 mm anti-aircraft gun of the Second World War first used in 1936. The Flak 36 was equipped with a Flakvisier 36 sight, had an effective ceiling of 2000 metres and a muzzle velocity of 820 meters-per-second.
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The Flak 37 was a modification of the Flak 36 anti-aircraft gun fitted with the Flakvisier 40 clockwork-driven computing sight.
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The Rheinmetall 105 mm Flak 38 was a German heavy anti-aircraft gun of the Second World War which entered service in 1937. The 105 mm Flak 38 fired a 14.8 kg high-explosive shell to an effective ceiling of 9450 metres with a muzzle velocity of 881 meters-per-second.
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The Flak 39 was a German heavy anti-aircraft gun of the Second World War developed in 1939 as a modified Flak 38.
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The 12.8 cm Flak 40 was a German anti-aircraft gun first produced in 1937 and the largest gun used during the Second World War. The 12.8 cm Flak 40 was an enlarged version of the Flak 38 and fired a 26.02 kg high-explosive shell to an effective ceiling of 10675 metres with a muzzle velocity of 880 meters-per-second.
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The Flak 41 was an unsuccessful German medium range anti-aircraft gun of the Second World War produced by Rheinmetall. The Flak 41 was a gas-operated, automatic weapon of 50 mm calibre with an effective ceiling of 5600 metres and a muzzle velocity of 840 meters-per-second. Its faults lay in its large size which made concealment difficult, and its inaccuracy due to vibrations during firing, and a complicated sight.
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The Flak 43 was a German 37 mm anti-aircraft gun comprising a development of the Flak 37 with twin cannons with a gas-actuated mechanism. The Flak 43 had an effective ceiling of 4200 metres and a muzzle velocity of 820 meters-per-second.
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The Flakvierling 38 was a German improvement of the Flak 30 anti-aircraft gun, produced by Mauser after German experiences in the Spanish Civil War. The
Flakvierling 38 comprised four 20 mm guns, each with a rate of fire of 420 rounds-per-minute, mounted on a platform. The Flakvierling 38 had an effective ceiling of 2000 metres and a muzzle velocity of 900 meters-per-second.
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The FLY-K is a flashless, smokeless, almost-silent mortar developed in Belgium during the 1980s and taken over by a French company and issued to the French Marines. The FLY-K fires a 51 mm 765 gram bomb between 40 metres and 675 metres at a rate of fire of 25 rounds-per-minute.
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The FM Gas Gun is an Argentinean grenade launcher designed to fire tear gas cartridges and similar munitions. The FM Gas Gun is similar to a single-barrelled shot gun, breaking at the breach to allow insertion of a single cartridge to the barrel which may then be fired. The FM Gas Gun has a calibre of 38.1 mm.
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The Breda Folgore is an Italian recoilless anti-tank gun, light enough to be shoulder fired, but usually mounted on a bipod or tripod, and firing a 80 mm calibre rocket-boosted projectile. The Folgore has an effective range of 700 metres and a maximum range of 4500 metres and can penetrate more than 450 mm of armour.
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The Ford M39 is an American 20 mm calibre, gas-operated single-barrel cannon fitted to aircraft. The Ford M39 was developed by a team at the Illinois Institute of Technology from the German Second World War Mauser MG213C cannon. The Ford M39 has a rate of fire of 1700 rounds per minute and a muzzle velocity of 870 metres per second.
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The FQF 2500 is a Chinese ship-borne 12-tubed fixed launcher anti-ship mortar with a range of 1200 meters, firing a 34 kg warhead.
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The friction tube was a device employed for firing the charges in guns. The friction tube was adopted by the British military in 1853 to replace various adaptations of the flintlock, and mechanisms utilising percussion caps, for firing cannons. With the introduction of smokeless powders it was found necessary to provide some means of preventing the escape of propellant gases from the vent, as otherwise serious corrosion occurred, and vent sealing tubes were introduced. The fitting was T-shaped, and was clamped in the vent by the breech mechanism. The cross piece contained a roughened rod, embedded in a pellet of friction composition, provided with a looped end for the attachment of a lanyard, and secured by a safety pin.
The stem of the tube had a magazine filled with gunpowder, above which was a diaphragm bored with three fire holes, communicating with a tapered channel which extended to the friction pellet, a soft copper ball being loose in the channel. The safety pin was removed when the tube was fitted, and when the rod was withdrawn, by pulling the lanyard, the friction composition ignited, and fired the magazine, the bottom plug being blown out and the charge fired, while the pressure secured the copper ball against the sides of the taper channel and the body of the magazine against the walls of the vent, so preventing any escape of gas. In the British service the friction tube had been largely superseded by electric and percussion tubes by the end of the Great War.
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FROG (Free Rocket Over ground) was the NATIO codename for a series of Soviet spin-stabilised unguided missiles that entered service around 1957. The original FROG-1 missile had an estimated range of 24 km and was claimed to carry a thermo-nuclear warhead.
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The FROG-3 was a Soviet two-stage surface-to-surface battlefield unguided rocket introduced in 1957, with a range of 40 km launched from a variant of the PT-76 light amphibious tank chassis capable of carrying either a 200- kiloton nuclear warhead or a 450kg high explosive warhead.
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The FROG-5 was a Soviet two-stage surface-to-surface battlefield unguided rocket introduced around 1960, with a range of 55 km launched from a variant of the PT-76 light amphibious tank chassis capable of carrying either a 200- kiloton nuclear warhead or a 450kg high explosive warhead.
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The FROG-7 was a Soviet single-stage surface-to-surface battlefield unguided rocket introduced in 1965 with a range of between 11 and 70 km launched from the ZIL-135 vehicle, capable of carrying either a 10-, 100- or 200-kiloton nuclear warhead or a 550kg high explosive warhead or a chemical warhead.
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