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:
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)