Word: recoiling
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Armed with 158 cannon, ranging in caliber from 16-inchers (nine) down to 20-mm. antiaircraft pieces, an Iowa needs more than half her complement of 2,500 men simply to man her guns. She is armored with 16-inch plate, is built so ruggedly that the recoil of her main batteries is reduced to an unexciting whoosh in the engine rooms below. Her speed is "more than 30 knots," her maneuverability better than many warships one-tenth as large...
...usual jet-propulsion machine, air is taken in at the front, compressed by a turbine-driven mechanical compressor (e.g., a fan), then mixed with fuel in a combustion chamber and expelled at the rear, the impact of the expanding air and gas, like a gun's recoil, giving the machine its push. But a compressor would have added greatly to the bomb's weight and complexity. To eliminate it, the Nazis hit on a way to use the force of the inrushing air itself. A grill with nine small jets is mounted in front (see cut, right). Behind...
Last week the U.S. War and Navy Departments announced that six types of U.S. fighters and fighter bombers have been equipped with rocket guns, that they have been used in the Pacific, Burma and Mediterranean theaters. Rockets give little recoil when fired. Their penetration power and fanning explosions are spectacularly effective against barges, bivouac areas, fuel and ammunition dumps...
...rearward thrust of high-speed gases drives the vehicle forward. This is in accord with Newton's law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction or recoil...
...four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat the 33-lb. Piat is handled by a two-man team, one to aim and fire, the other to haul ammunition and reload...