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[Heiko Alkema]

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Things to include: Brief History and background, significant features

[Christopher J. D'Dario]

For your consideration
issuingorders.proboards.com/thread/3974/book-armaments-last-update-2012

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Here are some I wrote up a long time ago:

M1911A1 Pistol
Competing with the Browning HP as one of the most successful pistol designs, the .45 ACP (11.43mm) Colt M1911 was adopted by the US military in 1924. A powerful man-stopper, the improved M1911A1 proved to be extremely robust and reliable. In one test performed on the nearly-identical M1911, six thousand cartridges were fired over a period of two days, being immersed in water when overheated. Not a single malfunction was reported. Allied with a positive applied safety and grip safety, the M1911A1 was a very safe weapon under service conditions, but was somewhat on the heavy side. Difficult to handle and fire correctly, a good deal of training was required to operate it successfully.

M1A1 rocket launcher
One of the more original weapons of World War II, the 60mm (2.36-in) M1A1 Rocket Launcher was a very simple weapon, nothing more than a steel tube through which a rocket was launched, a wooden shoulder rest, and a grip including the trigger assembly. Firing a rocket electrically, the M1A1 could be used against tanks 300 yards away, and was soon found to be suitable for other battlefield tasks. Suffering from unreliability, especially in low temperatures, the M1A1 nonetheless tackled pillboxes and barbed wire, even clearing lanes through minefields and bombarding vehicle parks 700 yards away.

Mosin-Nagant M91/30
In 1930 a program to modernize the Soviet military began. Producing an old rifle in a new form, the Czarist Mosin-Nagant Model 1891 rifle was shortened and modified to ease production, resulting in the Model 1891/30. Firing the hard-hitting 7.62x54r cartridge, the M91/30 used a complicated bolt action and an ammunition feed that used a holding device that offered only one round under spring tension to the bolt. The M91/30 was often seen with a fixed 16-inch socket bayonet, but this was mostly due to Soviet regulations and the great effort needed to remove it. Despite the awkwardness of such a long, bayoneted rifle, the M91/30 proved to be accurate, and extremely durable.