Word: bazooka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white powder with one and a half times the blasting force of TNT. It was invented by the Germans in 1899, but had been considered too expensive for military use until the U.S. found a way, used it in naval torpedoes and bazooka anti-tank rockets...
With improvements in recoilless weapons, the bazooka, the shaped charge and "the more recent developments with regard to guided missiles and rockets, target-seeking equipment and the possibilities of tactical use of atomic weapons," said Pace, "it may well be that tank warfare as we have known it will soon be obsolete...