This guide combines detailed technical information with data tables and photographs of the world’s ammunition currently in service with armed forces and paramilitary organizations worldwide.
With the MG 34, the German Wehrmacht introduced an entirely new concept in automatic firepower - the general-purpose machine gun (GPMG). This study explores the technological development, varied roles and lasting influence of the revolutionary MG 34 and MG 42 machine guns and their postwar successors.
Tactical nuclear warheads (often abbreviated TNWs) are also known as non-strategic, sub-strategic, theater, or battlefield nuclear warheads. Generally, they are carried by tactical nuclear delivery vehicles (DVs)—aircraft, ships, missiles, or ground forces—with shorter ranges than the intercontinental-range strategic nuclear delivery vehicles that carry strategic nuclear warheads.