State-owned arms maker China South Industries Group (CSGC) has released footage of its electromagnetic coil gun. Allegedly ...

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Sierra Space continues to put its Large Integrated Flexible Environment (LIFE) habitat designs through the wringer. After multiple stress tests that filled the inflatable space station modules with ...

Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch hole" in the barrel igniting the powder inside. A shooter uses one hand for firing, and a prop to steady the gun.The ...

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We knew he'd be in Parliament on November 5, so we plotted to blow him sky high with a load of gun powder. It was called the Gunpowder Plot. Bit obvious really. Some of the gang realised that ...