X-Nico

unusual facts about weapons systems



Gregg Bergersen

Gregg William Bergersen (born 1956/57) was a weapons systems policy analyst for the United States Defense Security Cooperation Agency.


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Colt Defense

The company traces its portfolio of products and services back to Colt's Manufacturing Company and prior to that to Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, and through those entities and its current structure, it has supplied small arms weapons systems to the United States Government and other governments throughout the world since the Mexican-American War of 1847.

L. E. Baynes

During the Second World War, Baynes was the aviation adviser to Alan Muntz & Co at Heston Aerodrome, specialists in weapons systems, and he organized an aircraft division of the company.

NEW-GEN

Roboduck- A first generation combat robot from New-Gen, Roboduck is equipped with several plasma-based weapons systems.

POMCUS

Originally, POMCUS sites were primarily simply guarded, fenced-in lots of pre-loaded, maintained vehicles and weapons systems ready to roll, although the precursor to POMCUS sites was a series of underground storage areas liberated from the Germans in Pirmasens and the outlying areas Husterhoeh Kaserne utilized to store combat-readied armor.

Post-PFI Soviet/Russian aircraft projects

The left fuselage was to contain the piloting equipment and radar sensors, whereas the right fuselage was to accommodate the weapons systems and a Fire-control system.

Replenishment oiler

Because the replenishment oiler is not a combat unit, but rather a support vessel, such ships are often lightly armed, usually with self-defense systems (such as the Phalanx CIWS close-in weapons systems), small arms, machine guns and/or light automatic cannons.

Revolution in Military Affairs

Authors such as Michael O'Hanlon and Frederick Kagan, point to the fact much of the technology and weapons systems ascribed to the contemporary RMA were in development long before 1991 and the Internet and information technology boom.

Space weapon

As of 2012, there are no known operative orbital weapons systems, but several were designed by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.