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:
“I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“We’re in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
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