Word: armaments
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...genuine Wright Cyclone. The propeller is a duplicate of the U.S.-made Hamilton Standard. The air frame is very similar to the German Heinkel HE 113. Most of the other features are standard with many other types of fighter craft now in use. The armament is heavy but not unusually so: two 20-mm. cannon, one in each wing, and two 7.7-mm. (30 cal.) machine guns on either side of the nose...
...State control for armament manufacture and distribution...
...delivered in a pattern so that the Iowa's speed and maneuverability couldn't save her. More damaging would be close-in, suicidal plane attack-and even with her announced 20-gun, 5-inch secondary battery, sixteen 1.1-inch anti-aircraft guns and unannounced small-caliber armament, the Iowa alone couldn't stave...
...America is winning. America is fighting mad. American labor, American farmers, American industry, all are geared to war production, all are determined to get the job done. The production lines are producing more planes, the munitions plants more armament, the shipbuilders more ships, the farms more food. . . . We are not letting our fighting men down...
Last week the British wound up their biggest experiment yet in the use of modern armament in India. Their enemy: the non-passively-resistant blood brotherhood of turbaned Hurs in Sind Province...