- breech-loading arm
- казнозарядное оружие
English-Russian arms dictionary. 2013.
English-Russian arms dictionary. 2013.
small arm — small armed, adj. Usually, small arms. a firearm designed to be held in one or both hands while being fired: in the U.S. the term is applied to weapons of a caliber of up to one in. (2.5 cm). [1680 90] * * * ▪ military technology Introduction… … Universalium
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