Military
- The modern flamethrower by Richard Fiedler in 1901.
- Submachine gun(MP 18 by Theodor Bergmann)
- The modern assault rifle
- Cruise missile : V-1 flying bomb
- Ballistic missile : A-4, commonly known as the V-2 rocket in the 1930s and 1940s under direction of Wernher von Braun.
- Rifling
- Dreyse needle gun by Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse
- Rocket-powered aircraft, the Lippisch Ente in 1928.
- Mass produced rocket-powered aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 163 in 1944
- Brandtaucher by Wilhelm Bauer
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
—Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)
““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)