Weapons questions

A bolas is a type of throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of interconnected cords, used to capture animals by entangling their legs. Bolas were most famously used by the gauchos (South American cowboys), but have been found in excavations of Pre-Columbian settlements, especially in Patagonia, where indigenous peoples used them to catch 200-pound guanaco and ñand. The Mapuche and the Inca army used them in battle.

Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus ("Mouse") was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in late 1944. It is the heaviest fully enclosed armoured fighting vehicle ever built. Five were ordered, but only two hulls and one turret were completed before the testing grounds were captured by advancing Soviet military forces. Weighing 188 metric tons, the Maus's main armament was the Krupp-designed 128 mm KwK 44 L/55 gun,

TKB-059 was a Soviet three-barrel bullpup assault rifle, capable of fully automatic fire, manufactured by Tula Arms Plant in 1966. It was based on the Pribor 3B, an earlier experimental assault rifle with three barrels. Both weapons used a tripled 7.62×39mm magazine with a capacity of 90 rounds, with each barrel independently fed from the magazine. TKB-059 can now be seen at the Tula arms museum.

On May 15, 1718, Englishman James Puckle patented his machine gun, the world's first! You may have thought the Gatling gun or the Maxim machine gun was the first machine gun, but depending on how you define “machine gun” James Puckle, Esq. (yes, he was a lawyer) got there first.

The Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) is an acoustic hailing device developed by LRAD Corporation to send messages and warning tones over longer distances or at higher volume than normal loudspeakers. LRAD systems are used by law enforcement, government and defense agencies, as well as maritime and commercial security companies to broadcast audible notifications and warnings over distance.

The Arisaka rifle is a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles, in production and use since approximately 1897. The Arisaka type 99 was the most common Imperial Japanese service rifle of World War II and most produced imperial rifle with 2,500,000 built. Many thousands of Type 99s and other Arisaka variants were brought to the United States by soldiers as war trophies during and after World War II.

Labrys is, according to Plutarch, the Lydian word for the double-bitted axe called in Greek pélekus. While double axes are common in modern high fantasy settings, in reality they were not commonly used in combat.

Kalashnikov's Automatic Rifle; also known as the Kalashnikov and AK, is a gas-operated, 7.62×39mm assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is the originating firearm of the "AK") family. Design work on the AK-47 began in 1945.

A supercavitating torpedo is a torpedo using the effect of supercavitation to create a bubble around the torpedo to move at high velocity under water; up to 370 km / h. The disadvantage of such torpedoes is its exceptionally loud work and difficult maneuvering. Current applications of cavitation effects are mainly limited to projectiles or fast supercavitating torpedoes, and some propellers, but in principle the technique could be extended to include entire vehicles.

Hiroshima was destroyed by the explosion of Little Boy - a nuclear bomb with an explosion power equal to 15 kilotons of TNT. It destroyed over 60% of buildings in the city and killed about 100,000 inhabitants. It was the first and most tragic atomic attack in history.