March 9, 2007: The U.S. Air Force has started using a new 20mm round for its aircraft cannon. The PGU-28A/B round has a higher velocity (because of more propellant), and the shell has a more ...
POCATELLO —The bomb squad from Mountain Home Air Force base is en route to Pocatello to dispose of an unexploded cannon round found at Pacific Recycling on Highway 30. Workers at Pacific Recycling ...
July 29,2008: South Korea has developed a new infantry weapon, the XK-11[VIDEO], that appears to be identical in concept of the U.S. Army XM-29 (or OICW, for Objective Individual Combat Weapon). The ...
A couple hurt last year when a 20mm shell they’d scavenged from Joint Base Lewis-McChord exploded in their faces pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge stemming from the blast. Juliette Parker and Cody ...
Smallest Transmitter. A 20-mm. shell is less than an inch in diameter, but Roy J. Smollet of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md., has built a radio transmitter that fits into its nose ...
At the time, it was considered a miracle. On July 30, 1943, an American B-17 Flying Fortress, the “Tondelayo,” survived a bombing run on Kassel, Germany. When the Tondelayo returned to its base in ...