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** There is also the Paris Gun, an enormous cannon built by the Germans that could fire shells ''eighty miles'', so far and high that Coriolis Force affected the shots. |
** There is also the Paris Gun, an enormous cannon built by the Germans that could fire shells ''eighty miles'', so far and high that Coriolis Force affected the shots. |
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* [[Mundane Utility]]: One of the first military uses for aircraft, a technology which man has sought desperately since its infancy millions of years ago and has only now just acquired, was to look at the enemy from a very high place. |
* [[Mundane Utility]]: One of the first military uses for aircraft, a technology which man has sought desperately since its infancy millions of years ago and has only now just acquired, was to look at the enemy from a very high place. |
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** [http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/04/04/the-winchester-machine-rifle-wwis-anti-balloon-assault-rifle/ Winchester prototyped an assault rifle], decades before the Germans made the STG44, for the the purpose of shooting down balloons. |
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* [[Multinational Team]]: Applies to most belligerent empires/states: |
* [[Multinational Team]]: Applies to most belligerent empires/states: |
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** British Empire and Commonwealth armies were assembled from a quarter of the globe. A flotilla of Japanese destroyers even served with the British Mediterranean fleet. |
** British Empire and Commonwealth armies were assembled from a quarter of the globe. A flotilla of Japanese destroyers even served with the British Mediterranean fleet. |