Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production -in which it has had the yeoman help of U.S. business. One of the outstanding jobs of U.S. defense is Ordnance's building of a great powder, shot & shell industry (TIME, Oct. 20). But Ordnance was not ready with prepared designs of modern weapons for industry to manufacture. To meet World War II, it had no outstand ing tank models. It had developed no outstanding artillery piece. The one weapon peculiar to the U.S. Army that it developed was an infantry piece: the semiautomatic Garand rifle...
...light artillery, Ordnance had been satisfied to dress up the old French 75. In 1940 Ordnance at last conceded that the 75 had too flat a trajectory, threw too light a slug. Ordnance had an able substitute in the 105-mm. howitzer, which it had planned as a supplementary weapon. When the 105-mm. finally became the standard field artillery piece, it meant a revolution in the shell-as well as artillery-production program. The Army is only now getting the first...
...German tank technique is largely based on Der Kampfwagenkrieg (Battlewagon Warfare, 1935) by General Ludwig Ritter von Eimannsberger. The essence of the Eimannsberger thesis boils down to this: The tank is exclusively a weapon of large-scale strategic offensive, in no case of small-scale tactical attack, counterattack or defense. For defense against tanks, General von Eimannsberger devised a pattern of anti-tank guns in three rows-a six, twelve, six defense-covering a front about a mile and a half wide. Such a defense, he figured, would be able to knock out at least 54 tanks before being overcome...
...planes headed for an "attack" on New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, other East Coast cities. Spotted at five-mile intervals throughout the endangered territory, which cut inland 150 miles, they were haphazardly equipped with everything from scythes and squirrel rifles to radios and binoculars. But their chief defensive weapon was the telephone...
...tried, with only one plane to a convoy (now more and more ships are being equipped), the suicide fighters proved their effectiveness in catching by surprise German bombers who thought they were too far from land to worry about air attack. For some time the British kept their new weapon secret to confuse the German bombers, lead them to think an aircraft carrier must be near...