David
Fri December 13, 2002 12:40pm
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Field piece camouflaged w
Field piece camouflaged with mat of chicken wire and woven grass.
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David
Tue December 17, 2002 3:24pm
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Technical Sergeant James
Technical Sergeant James Hunter Jr., of the 1st Combat Communications Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, splices wire for a new antenna array on top of the Tower at Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia. The new array is being deployed to the top of the tower to provide better communications to incoming aircraft to Tuzla.
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David
Tue December 17, 2002 3:24pm
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Technical Sergeant James
Technical Sergeant James Hunter Jr. of the 1st Combat Communications Squadron, Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and Technical Sergeant Willy Morris of the 617th Communications Squadron, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, splice wire for a new antenna array on top of the tower at Tuzla Air Base.
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David
Tue December 17, 2002 3:24pm
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Technical Sergeant James
Technical Sergeant James Hunter Jr. and Technical Sergeant Willy Morris splice wire for a the new antenna.
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David
Tue December 17, 2002 3:35pm
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Tactical Satellite Techni
Tactical Satellite Technician Private First Class Arthurick Leslie from the 72nd Signal Battalion, 7th Signal Brigade, Mannheim, Germany, talks on the order wire to a distant end terminal inside an AN-TSC 93 B Tactical Satellite Terminal (TST). The terminal provides a satellite communcations link in tactical situations to and from forwand deployed unites.
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David
Tue December 17, 2002 4:08pm
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A U.S. Armored Personnel
A U.S. Armored Personnel Carrier and concertina wire form one of several roadblocks set up near the Papal Nunciature, where Manuel Noriega took refuge before leaving to the United States to stand trial.
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David
Thu December 19, 2002 1:43pm
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1LT Steve Cunningham of t
1LT Steve Cunningham of the 9th Inf. crawls beneath barbed wire during training at Camp Casey, Korea, on June 20, 2000. U.S. Army Photo By: Yu Hu Son
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David
Thu December 19, 2002 2:17pm
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A US Army 1st Support Bat
A US Army 1st Support Battalion female team member low crawls under barbed wire. US Army Photo by Pvt. Daniel Carrillo.
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 8:01am
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Members of the flight dec
Members of the flight deck crew inspect the arresting gear aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) before flight operations. The arresting gear is four sturdy cables made of tightly woven high-tensile steel wire, 20 feet from one another at the aft end of the flight deck. These arresting "wires" are snagged by tailhook on an aircraft, making possible the ability to land and come to a full stop within a few hundred feet. Theodore Roosevelt is conducting training in the Atlantic Ocean. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer?s Mate 3rd Class Sabrina A. Day.
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 8:44am
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An F/A-18C Hornet makes i
An F/A-18C Hornet makes its final approach to make an arrested landing aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). The pilot of the Hornet will try to catch the #3 wire, the arresting cable the pilots aim for in a space of deck about 80 feet long. The Hornet is making its approach at about 135 knots. Abraham Lincoln and her embarked Carrier Air Wing Fourteen (CVW-14) are conducting combat missions in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Third Class Tyler Clements.
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 5:17pm
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Steelworker 3rd Class Dan
Steelworker 3rd Class Daniel Montano from Santa Fe, NM, cuts reinforcement wire for what will be a guardhouse. Petty Officer Montano and the Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Four Zero (NMCB 40) are working on various construction projects throughout the island of Guam. U. S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Lamel J. Hinton
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David
Fri December 20, 2002 5:17pm
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Utilitiesman 2nd Class Br
Utilitiesman 2nd Class Brian T. Pratt, a U.S. Navy Seabee assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Two (NMCB 2), adjusts newly strung razor wire along one of the perimeter fences at "Camp X-Ray." Camp X-Ray is a holding facility for detainees held at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during Operation Enduring Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Michael W. Pendergrass.
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David
Tue January 7, 2003 10:05pm
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Tanks along the wire
Tanks along the wire
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David
Wed January 8, 2003 7:11am
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The M3 'Grease Gun' with
The M3 'Grease Gun' with wire stock extended and T30-round column-box magazine removed. The M3 is an extremely simple blowback weapon. There is no safety, fitted and the weapon only fires fully automatic. However, since the cyclic rate of fire is relatively low at 450-rounds per minute, this allowed the firer to control the movement of the gun when firing bursts and even to squeeze off single shots.. It fires the standard .45 ACP pistol cartridge (as used in the M1911A1) from a straight 30-round, single-column box magazine. There was provision in the original design for conversion to 9-mm Parabellum. This involved changing the barrel, breech block and magazine, all of which could be done without tools. A small number of weapons so converted appeared in Europe, but the vast majority of the 700,000 US-made M3s were in 45 calibre.
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David
Wed January 8, 2003 8:11am
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PPSh-41 7.62mm SMG
The weapon had a fire-rate selector lever positioned just in front of the trigger, allowing the rate of fire to be changed rapidly without the weapon moving off the point of aim. The two-piece bolt handle allows the bolt to be locked in either the forward or the rear position. The original weapon had two different magazines; a 71-round drum or a 35-round box. The drum magazine seems to have fallen out of favour, and most of this type of weapon seen in Vietnam used the box. This may have been a result of the Chinese connection. The PRC Type 50 SMG differed only slightly from the PPSh41, mainly in that it only fitted the 35-round box magazine. The most interesting variant of the weapon was the K50M, which was a Vietnamese modification of the Type 50. The Vietnamese removed the wooden butt stock and replaced it with a wooden pistol grip and a French-style sliding wire butt stock similar to that on the MAT49. At the front end of the weapon, they shortened the perforated barrel jacket, left off the muzzle brake, and attached the foresight to the barrel, giving the gun a shape strongly reminiscent of the MAT49. The K50M ended up being about 500 g (1.1 lb) lighter than the PPSh41 at 3.4 kg (7.5 lb) as opposed to 3.9 kg (8.6 lb). The weapons were all blowback operated and had an effective range of about 150 m (164 yd).
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