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* ''[[Doc Savage]]'': 'Long Tom' Roberts got his nickname when he used an ancient cannon - known as a Long Tom - that had been on display in the town square to successfully defend a town during [[World War One]].
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Star Beast]]''. When Mr. Ito finds Lummox eating his cabbages, he grabs a relic of the Fourth World War known as a "tank-killer" that was handed down to him by his grandfather. He fires it it at Lummox, which doesn't harm him but does drive him away.
* At one point in the ''[[Sten]]'' series, Sten took charge of an old fort. When the enemy attacked, Sten was as shocked as they were that his fort's "obsolete" guns were blasting their [[Space Fighter]]s out of the sky. The guns' fire directors were tracking, and the shells' proximity fuses detonating, on radar frequencies that people had gotten out of the habit of bothering to jam, presumably because newer frequencies worked better ... but only '''if''' they weren't jammed.
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