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The WS 30 stabilised modular weapon station is fitted with an ATK 30mm MK44 electrically operated chain gun.

19th Century French Weapons Lebel 8mm round The 8×50mmR French (8 mm Lebel) rifle cartridge was the first smokeless gunpowder cartridge to be made and adopted by any country. It was introduced by France in 1886. Formed by necking down the 11 mm Gras black powder cartridge, the smokeless 8...

19th Century French Weapons Lepage silex gun dite du Premier Consul circa 1800 Jean Lepage (1779–1822) was a famous French gunsmith.[1] He worked for Louis XVI, Napoléon and then Louis XVIII. He was the inventor of fulminate percussion systems for firearms, which superseded the...

19th Century French Weapons Ader Avion III The Avion III (sometimes referred to as the Aquilon or the Éole III) was a primitive steam-powered aircraft built by Clément Ader between 1892 and 1897, financed by the French War Office. Retaining the same basic bat-like configuration of...

19th Century French Weapons La France (airship) The La France was a French Army airship launched by Charles Renard and Arthur Constantin Krebs in 1884. Collaborating with Charles Renard, Arthur Constantin Krebs piloted the first fully controlled free-flight with the La France. The 170-foot (52...

19th Century French Weapons Du Temple Monoplane The du Temple Monoplane was a large aeroplane made of aluminium, built in Brest, France, by naval officer Félix du Temple in 1874.

19th Century French Weapons Jean-Marie Le Bris Jean-Marie Le Bris (1817 - 1872) was a French aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany, who accomplished a glider flight in December 1856. A sailor and sea captain, Jean-Marie Le Bris sailed around the world observing the flight of the Albatross...

19th Century French Weapons The Gymnote was one of the world's first all-electric submarines. French submarine Gymnote (Q1) Launched on 24 September 1888, she was developed in France following early experiments by Dupuy de Lôme, and, after his death, by Gustave Zéd&#233...

19th Century French Weapons French armoured cruiser Dupuy de Lôme (1887) Dupuy de Lôme was an armoured cruiser of the French Navy, launched in Brest in 1887, and commissioned in 1890. She is considered by some to be the world's first armoured cruiser.[1] She was named after the naval...

19th Century French Weapons French battleship Redoutable Redoutable (1876) was a central battery and barbette ship of the French Navy. She was the first warship in the world to use steel as the principal building material [2]

19th Century French Weapons French submarine Plongeur...launched on 16 April 1863. She was the first submarine in the world to be propelled by mechanical (rather than human) power. Top and Side views Inner Structural view

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