Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dead King's boots were tied heels to the front in the stirrups of his pure white Arabian horse and the procession began to move, paced by the dull boom of a single cannon, fired every minute. Glubb Pasha, British chief of the Arab Legion, wept openly, wiped his eyes with his red-and-white checkered legionnaire's headdress...
Fast Firing. In ten years, if all goes well, the U.S. will be equipped with guided missiles and proximity-fused spinning rockets. But right now the need is for a fast-firing, high-velocity 30-or 57-mm. cannon to fill the gap between pea shooters and rockets, and topnotch industrial engineers to design and produce them...
...group of arms men who spent months examining combat reports from Korea and evaluation tests at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Their conclusions: ¶ The World War II-model guns mounted on U.S. interceptors - a .50-cal. machine gun (developed in 1918) and a 20-mm. cannon (developed during the '30s)-cannot shoot down an enemy jet bomber with any efficiency. In Korea, one F-86 pilot had to spray 1,400 rounds of .50-cal. fire at a Russian MIG-15 fighter before it went down...
...World War II. Armament is the monopoly of Army Ordnance, a powerful, well lodged bureau which makes weapons for all three services, and operates in a field where resistance to unification is greatest. Sample: Ordnance and the Navy are now experimenting with two different types of 20-mm. cannon shells which will not be interchangeable. The arms experts think that Ordnance needs a little competition from private industry. Ordnance itself blames the Air Force, and gets some support from the arms experts...
...pointed out, 40 heavily escorted U.S. B-29s were suddenly jumped by 80 Russian MIG-15 fighters. The MIGs knifed through the formations, shot down six of the bombers in the space of a few minutes. The MIG-15's armament: two 23-mm., one 37-mm. cannon...