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| Thread ID: 80418 | 2007-06-22 05:31:00 | World's smallest machine gun ... | Biggles (121) | PC World Chat |
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| 561634 | 2007-06-22 10:36:00 | You've heard of builders nail guns, these .5mm are the seldom seen panel pin gun. PS Terry don't you mean Vickers 2 pounder or "Pom Pom"? I was quoting the biggest guns carried :) en.wikipedia.org(R07) www.answers.com www.glue-it.com en.wikipedia.org(1914) My uncle was in the Fleet Air arm, in Swordfish from the Illustrious at Taranto where the Italian fleet was mauled. That also had 4.5" guns as well as the Bofors rapid fire. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 561635 | 2007-06-22 12:29:00 | Obviously you never served on any of the 4 Ark Royals Cic. :) They were aircraft carriers, and as such did not have big guns. The first Ark had quick firing 12 pounders, the next two had 4.5" guns, and the current one has 20mm Phalanx guns. Didn't quite get Bruce's point.....50mm guns being small? So used a Uk ship and 16"to show that was diameter. I wondered if I would be picked up on my guess. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 561636 | 2007-06-22 12:45:00 | 50mm would be fine but the Herald printed .50mm instead of .50 inch | PaulD (232) | ||
| 561637 | 2007-06-22 15:05:00 | 50mm would be fine but the Herald printed .50mm instead of .50 inch Ah,so that is what it was all about. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 561638 | 2007-06-23 02:04:00 | The .50mm guns where probably made by the guy who was on the news the other day who would create items that could only be seen with a microscope. Was it $300,000 for an elephant that sits on a pin head. Impressive but you can't see them, unless you happen to have a microscope handy. | dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 561639 | 2007-06-23 04:09:00 | Those guns would be 0.5 inch. (Perhaps someone did a metric conversion without doing a conversion). That's still a standard "big" MG calibre. It would be big enough to scare naughty fishermen. It is a cargo ship, not a "warship". |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 561640 | 2007-06-23 09:26:00 | The 0.5-inch machine gun has been around since way before WW2. During WW2 it was that standard machine mounted in US fighters, as defensive armament in bombers and mounted on armoured vehicles, tanks etc. Plus as standard light anti-aircraft armament on ships. It is so ubiquitous that trying to do a “metric” conversion when talking about it is just silly – no one refers to it by metric measurements, even in metric countries. en.wikipedia.org Of course, in this case they didn’t even bother to do a conversion, but it still amuses me to think of this ship’s anti-rodent machine guns … |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 561641 | 2007-06-24 04:33:00 | Now the Herald is referring to the ship as a "frigate". Minor problem with new frigate fixed - Navy (www.nzherald.co.nz) Sigh. I don't know why this annoys me so much except that when you see such laziness with simple stories like this, you wonder how much of any "facts" they report you can be sure of. I mean how hard is it to know the difference between a frigate and a multi-role transport ship? I bet someone put frigate in that story because they looked up "Canterbury", and found data for the previous Canterbury, which was a frigate .... |
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