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  2. MP 40 - Wikipedia

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    250 m (820 ft) [3] Feed system. 32-round detachable box magazine, 64-round with dual magazines [3] Sights. Hooded front blade. The MP 40 ( Maschinenpistole 40) is a submachine gun chambered for the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. It was developed in Nazi Germany and used extensively by the Axis powers during World War II .

  3. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...

  4. Thích Quảng Đức - Wikipedia

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    Thích Quảng Đức ( chữ Hán: 釋 廣 德, Vietnamese: [tʰǐk̟ kʷâːŋ ɗɨ̌k] ⓘ; born Lâm Văn Túc; 1897 – 11 June 1963) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. [2] Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists by the South ...

  5. The Social Network - Wikipedia

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    English. Budget. $40 million [3] Box office. $224.9 million [3] The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. It portrays the founding of social networking website Facebook.

  6. Vigneron submachine gun - Wikipedia

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    Sights. Fixed. The Vigneron is a submachine gun manufactured in Belgium during the 1950s. It used the 9×19mm NATO cartridge and was used by the Belgian Army until the 1980s. The Vigneron is a selective-fire weapon for short-range street and brush fighting. It remains reasonably accurate up to 100 m using sighted semi-automatic fire.

  7. Multiservice tactical brevity code - Wikipedia

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    March 2023 edition cover page of the Multi-Service Brevity Codes. Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words. American/NATO codes. This is a list of American standardized brevity code words. The ...

  8. Erma Werke - Wikipedia

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    Erma Werke. Maschinenpistole 40, SMG. The Erfurter Maschinenfabrik (ERMA) was a German weapons manufacturer founded in 1922 by Berthold Geipel. Prior to and during World War II it manufactured many firearms, including the Karabiner 98k, the MP40 and other submachine guns . The company is also noted for having produced various forms of military ...

  9. Heckler & Koch UMP - Wikipedia

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    The Heckler & Koch UMP ( Universale Maschinenpistole, German for "Universal Machine Pistol") is a submachine gun developed and manufactured by Heckler & Koch. Heckler & Koch developed the UMP as a lighter and cheaper successor to the MP5, though both remain in production. [4] The UMP has been adopted for use by various countries including ...

  10. Tet offensive attack on Joint General Staff Compound - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The attack on the Joint General Staff (JGS) Compound, the headquarters of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, occurred during the early hours of 31 January 1968. The JGS was located east of Tan Son Nhut Air Base. The attack by Vietcong (VC) forces was one of several major attacks on Saigon in the first days of the Tet offensive.

  11. Free Fire (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Free Fire is a free-to-play battle royale game developed and published by Garena for Android and iOS. [2] It was released on 8 December 2017. It became the most downloaded mobile game globally in 2019 and has over 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store. In the first quarter of 2021 it was the highest grossing mobile game in the US. [3]