- refer to entry in Episode 4
- Like most, if not all Mithril equipment, the C-17 is equipped with ECS capability
T-64/72
- Soviet MBT designs dating from the late 60s to early 70s.
- armed with 1x 125mm smoothbore main cannon, and either 1x (T-64)
or 2x (T-72) 7.62mm MGs
- uses the distinctive Soviet 'low-profile' turrent design which reduces
the tank's silhouette, but gives much less internal working space
- GONZO MIGHT'VE made a boo-boo with the bore evacuator being
too far back on the main cannon (it's positioned 1/3 the way
down the gun tube).
Su-17/20/22 'Fitter' (NATO codename) fighter-bomber
Manufacturer: Sukhoi OKB
Armed Forces used in: (Su-17) Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, CIS,
Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia.
(Su-22) Afghanistan, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Yemen, Peru, South
Yemen, Syria, Vietnam
Date Deployed: ~1969
Armament: UV-32-57 rocket pods (as depicted in the anime), various
guided and unguided Soviet air-to-ground munitions, air-to-air missiles
Top Speed:
Range:
Special Notes:
- developed from the Su-7
- the -20/22 designations refer to Soviet export models of the Su-17
- 'Gulf of Sidra' incident: 2 Libyan Su-22s went head to head with USN
F-14s in the Gulf of Sidra. Needless to say, the Su-22s lost that fight
'Arbalest' crossbow
- Original text can be found at http://www.ku.edu/~medieval/melcher/mat ... il-67.html
- not-too-clear image here- The crossbow was perhaps the most effective hand weapon of the
middle ages. (Some might argue this point vis-a-vis the longbow, as
demonstrated at the battle of Crecy.) It consisted originally of a short
wood bow fixed transversely on a wood stock, with a trigger to release the
arrow or quarrel. The second type substituted a "steel" bow fixed on the
wood stock, increasing both the strength and range of the weapon. The wood
crossbow could be drawn and fired by hand, but the metal one was so stiff
that it was usually fitted with a small "winch," by which the bow was drawn
before firing. These weapons were so powerful and destructive that they
were the subject of more than one Papal interdict.
- Does anyone know if the "steel" version was in use during the
Norman wars, or did it come into vogue after 1204?
'directional buckshot mine'
- around as far back as the infamous German 'Bouncing Betty' of WW2
to the US 'Claymore' mine. Operationally, the idea is to use the force
of explosion to hurl ball-bearing shot / projectiles in the most useful
direction. In the case of the 'Claymore,' it's the direction
clearly labelled as 'Front Toward Enemy'
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Anyone wanna take a gander at the spy satellite or the missiles used in
destroying Kurtz's M9? I THINK they're Brimstones, but they're on
screen too short for a positive ID.