- Method of obtaining elevation
- Matchlock
Breech loading Gingal (Chamber in) - Machine for throwing stones
- Machine for throwing stones 3
- Machine for throwing stones 2
- Machine for throwing darts
- Long Serpentine of Wrought Iron
- Hooped Cannon in wooden bed
- Hand or Arrow Rocket
- Giorgio Martini,
- From the wreck of the 'Mary Rose'
- Five barrelled Matchlock
The Chinese of the present day make use of a species of matchlock revolvers, and also of another matchlock, consisting of several barrels, placed on a common stock, diverging from each other, and fired simultaneously. - Early part of 15th Century
- Earliest form of Hand Gun
- Detail of Balista springs
- Crossbow
- Crossbow 2
- Chinese Field piece Peiho 1860
- Catapulta.
- Cart of War
- Breech loading Gingal (Chamber out)
Breech loading Gingal (Chamber out) - Breech loading Gingal (Chamber in)
- Bow unstrung
The Scythian bow unstrung. - Bow strung
The Scythian bow strung - Bombard and Carriage
- Balista
- Balista
- Asiatic Bow
- Ancient Screw piece
- M102 Top view
Top view of M102 105 mm Howitzer attached to truck - Sighting the M102 Howitzer
Sighting through the pantel, the gunner positions the aiming post by extending his left hand. - General Information - M102 Howitzer
- M102 Howitzer
- M102 Howitzer
- French Garrison Gun
French Garrison Gun (1650-1700). The gun is on a sloping wooden platform at the embrasure. Note the heavy bed on which the cheeks of the carriage rest and the built-in skid under the center of the rear axletree. - Light Artillery of Gustavus Adolphus
Gustavus abandoned the leather gun, however, in favor of a cast-iron 4-pounder and a 9-pounder demiculverin produced by his bright young artillery chief, Lennart Torstensson. The demiculverin was classed as the "feildpeece" par excellence, while the 4-pounder was so light (about 500 pounds) that two horses could pull it in the field. - breechloader
Under the Swedish warrior Gustavus Adolphus, artillery began to take its true position on the field of battle. Gustavus saw the need for mobility, so he divorced anything heavier than a 12-pounder from his field artillery. His famous "leatheren" gun was so light that it could be drawn and served by two men. This gun was a wrought-copper tube screwed into a chambered brass breech, bound with four iron hoops. The copper tube was covered with layers of mastic, wrapped firmly with cords, then coated with an equalizing layer of plaster. A cover of leather, boiled and varnished, completed the gun. Naturally, the piece could withstand only a small charge, but it was highly mobile. - trebuchet
The trebuchet was another war machine used extensively during the Middle Ages. Essentially, it was a seesaw. Weights on the short arm swung the long throwing arm. - Catapult
The catapult was the howitzer, or mortar, of its day and could throw a hundred-pound stone 600 yards in a high arc to strike the enemy behind his wall or batter down his defenses. "In the middle of the ropes a wooden arm rises like a chariot pole," wrote the historian Marcellinus. "At the top of the arm hangs a sling. When battle is commenced, a round stone is set in the sling. Four soldiers on each side of the engine wind the arm down until it is almost level with the ground. When the arm is set free, it springs up and hurls the stone forth from its sling." In early times the weapon was called a "scorpion," for like this dreaded insect it bore its "sting" erect. - Ballista - Caesar covered his landing in Britain with fire from catapults and ballistas.
The ballista had horizontal arms like a bow. The arms were set in rope; a cord, fastened to the arms like a bowstring, fired arrows, darts, and stones. Like a modern field gun, the ballista shot low and directly toward the enemy. - Light Tank M24 (Chaffee) - 75 mm gun - 1944
- Light Tank M3A3 (Stuart V) - 37 mm gun - 1942
- Light Tank Mk VIA - Vickers machine guns - 1937
- Light tank Mk VII, Tetrarch - 2 pounder gun - 1938-1940
- Landing vehicle Tracked - 75 mm howitzer - 1944
- Light Tank (Airborne) - M22 (Locust) - 37 mm gun - 1943
- Light Tank M3A1 (Stuart III) - 37 mm gun - 1942
- Cutaway of tank
- Cruiser Tank Mk VI
- Cruiser Tank, Comet - 77 mm gun - 1945
- Cruiser Tank, Cromwell IV - 75 mm gun - 1943
- Cutaway of tank 2
- Cruiser Tank Mk VI - Crusader III - 6 pounder gun - 1942
- Cruiser Tank Mk IV (A13 Mk II) - 2 pounder gun - 1939
- 17pdr gun mounted in the Archer SP
- Sherman VC, Firefly - 17 pounder gun - 1944
- The Parts of a Tank
- Medium Tank M4A1 - 76 mm gun -1944
- Medium Tank M4A3 (Sherman IV) - 75 mm gun - 1942
- Medium Tank M3A5 (Grant II) - 75 mm gun - 1941