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Sebastian Brandt was a German author. He was born in 1458 at Strasburg in and died in 1521. He studied law at Basel, and wrote the famous German satire, the Narrenschiff, or Ship of Fools. The Narrenschiff is written in verse, and is a bold and vigorous satire
on the vices and follies of the age. It took the popular taste of its time, and was translated into all the languages of Europe. The Ship of Fools by Alexander Barclay (1509) is partly an imitation, partly a translation of it.
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The Brandt 81 mm Mortar Mle 27/31 was a French mortar designed as an improvement upon the British Great War Stokes mortar, and used during the Second World War. The Brandt 81 mm Mortar Mle 27/31 fired a 3.25 or 6.5 kg bomb to a range of 2850 or 1200 metres depending upon bomb weight.
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The AMX-10P is a French tracked armoured personnel carrier first produced in 1973. The AMX-10P carries a crew of three plus eight passengers and is armed with a 20 mm cannon and a 7.62 mm coaxial machine-gun. A HS-115 V-8 water-cooled diesel engine provides a top speed of 65 kmh and a range of 600 km. Other variants are produced including an ambulance, repair vehicle, anti-tank model and mortar tractor for towing a Brandt 120 mm mortar.
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The Thomsan Brandt BAP 100 is a French lightweight air-launched runway-cratering bomb developed during the 1970s as a lightweight alternative to the Matra Durandal. The BAP 100 has an 18 kg warhead with a fuse delayed action allowing a delay of explosion up to six hours after the bomb strikes the target. The warhead can penetrate one metre of reinforced concrete and destroy an area of 50 square metres.
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The Brandt 120 mm Mortar is a French mortar that fires a 15.7 kg bomb to a range of 8135 metres. Two models are produced, one with a rifled bore and the other smooth bore.
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The Brandt 60 mm LR Gun-Mortar is a French breech-loading mortar also capable of being fired along a flat trajectory. The Brandt 60 mm LR Gun-Mortar is fitted to light AFVs and fires a 2.2 kg bomb to a range of 4000 metres with a rate of fire of up to 10 rounds-per-minute.
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The gun-mortar was developed during the 1970s by the French firm of Thomson-Brandt as a simple means of arming an armoured car. The early gun-mortars were short-barrelled muzzle-loaded weapons. Later, a breech loading mechanism was developed to allow loading of the weapon when under enemy fire, this development also resulting in longer barrels with a higher muzzle velocity allowing the gun to be fired as a medium-pressure gun at flat trajectories or as a mortar at higher trajectories.
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The M3 81mm Mortar is a South African mortar based upon the French Hotchkiss-Brandt MO-81-61 mortar, adapted for local manufacture. The M3 81mm Mortar fires a 4.4 kg bomb between 100 metres and 5000 metres at a rate of fire of up to 15 rounds-per-minute.
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The Mortar M1 was an American 60 mm mortar made under license from the French firm Brandt during the Second World War. The Mortar M1 fired a 1.33 kg bomb to a range of 1815 metres at a rate of fire of up to 18 rounds-per-minute.
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The Thomson-Brandt MO 120-60 is a French 120 mm calibre light mortar designed to provide firepower with simplicity and mobility. The MO 120-60 has a 1632 mm long barrel and a minimum range of 600 metres and a maximum range of 6610 metres with a rate of fire of 8 rounds per minute, or short bursts of 15 rounds per minute.
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