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USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of her nine 16"/50 and six 5"/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.

An M-198 155mm Howitzer of the US Marines firing at Fallujah, Iraq, during the Second Battle of Fallujah

A B-26 light bomber of the 3rd Bomb Wing has its 14 forward firing .50 caliber machine guns tested prior to a night mission against enemy targets in North Korea, where the 3rd Wing B-24 Night Intruders were devastatingly effective.

An amazing image showing a U.S. Air Force Sikorsky HH-53E helicopter crewman firing a M134 mini-gun during rescue patrol over South Vietnam.

Two machine gunners preparing to target an enemy airplane with their Vickers machine gun in France during World War I.

The guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) fires a round from one of her two MK-45 5-inch guns during a joint exercise (Talisman Sabre) with vessels assigned to the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Carrier Strike Group, 2005, in the Coral Sea.

The USS New Jersey (BB-62) fires a nine gun salvo of 40.6 cm into a target Kaesong, Korea on 1 January 1, 1953. Happy New Year!

An amazing perspective aboard a USMC M67 flame-thrower tank in Vietnam, 1968.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Benfold fires its 5″/54 MK 45 gun during routine training operations off the coast of Southern California.

Armor Soldiers assigned to 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, fire their Main Gun Systems (MGS) Stryker’s 105 mm main gun during a live fire range at Yakima Training Center, WA, March 2011.

A British Hawker Typhoon's rockets raining down on a tug caught in the Scheldt estuary, September 1944.

The USS Missouri (BB-63) firing its 16-inch (410 mm) guns at night, shelling Iraqi targets along the northern Kuwaiti coast during Operation Desert Storm, February 1991.

Marines with India battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, fire Gun 1 as part of a combined training operation with the Iraqi Army, January 2008.

An RAF Hawker Typhoon attacking train cars in Germany with 60 lb rocket projectiles. Notice that one has already been hit.

Anti-aircraft fire during an air raid on Algiers by the Nazis. 1943.

A German anti-aircraft team at work in the mountains of the Central Caucasus, 1942.

Katyusha rockets, or as the Germans called them, Stalin's organs, in action.

Firing the Army's Multiple Launch Rocket System during testing at White Sands Missile Range, January 2005.

An MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) in action in 1982.

Another MLRS going about its business, in 1989.

A LAROM (an enhanced Romanian version of the BM-21 rocket launcher) firing a salvo.

Russian rockets helping to pummel Berlin into submission and topple the Nazi regime.

A Marine with a company from 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion fires on his target while he conducts shooting drills.

An A-10 Thunderbolt II of the Air Force Reserve Command’s 47th Fighter Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, La fires during the Hawgsmoke 2010 competition at the Saylor Creek Range in Idaho.

An American tank destroyer firing near St. Lo, Normandy, June 1944.

An F-100D-85-NH Super Sabre fires a salvo of 2.75-inch rockets against an enemy position in South Vietnam in 1967. This aircraft was lost with its pilot, 1Lt Clive Jeffs, after an engine failure near Nha Trang on 12 March 1971.

American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France, July 11, 1944.

From the beaches Marines of the 4th Division shell well-entrenched Japanese positions on Iwo Jima, February 1945.

Soldiers from U.S. Army Europe's Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, fire a 120 mm illumination round in celebration of the Afghan New Year at Forward Operating Base Baylough in the Zabul province of Afghanistan on March 19, 2009.

U.S. Army soldiers fire mortar rounds at suspected Taliban fighting positions during Operation Mountain Fire in Barge Matal, Nuristan province, Afghanistan, after having secured the remote mountain village a few days before, July 12, 2009.

A .50 caliber machine gun firing aboard the Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship USS Monsoon (PC4) during an Advanced Phase Training Exercise (APTEX).

A Bell P-39 Airacobra in flight with all guns ablazing at night.

Wasp flamethrowers fitted to standard bullet-proof carriers in action. These flamethrowers had a range exceeding 150 yards

An F-4B Phantom II from the Attack Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) firing Zuni-rockets during an exercise in 1964. Aircraft of CVW-14 were among the first to fly strikes in the Vietname War in August 1964.

An Air Force AC-130 Hercules aircraft during target practice.

4.5 inch rockets being fired from the M4-Sherman Calliope, France.

U.S. Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider attack planes from USS Valley Forge (CV-45) firing 5-inch rockets at a North Korean position, October 1950..

The crew of 40mm guns hard at work firing aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) on February 16, 1945, as the planes of Task Force 58 were raiding Tokyo.

An HH-60H Seahawk assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Warfare Squadron Four (HS-4), fires flairs during an air demonstration above the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), 2006.

A U.S. Marine Corps Flamethrower Tank in Action near Da Nang. While the Army no longer had flamethrower tanks by that time the Marine Corps sent several to Vietnam.

Torching an area in Tarmiyah Qada, Iraq, August, 2008, so as to deny the enemy a clear line of sight along a road between Mushada and Tarmiyah.

A U.S. riverboat blasting napalm during the Vietnam War.

A Cobra firing precision-guided rockets during a training mission, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan.

A Seahawk assigned to the "Raptors" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 fires the first of four live Hellfire missiles

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USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of her nine 16"/50 and six 5"/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.

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USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of her nine 16"/50 and six 5"/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.

An M-198 155mm Howitzer of the US Marines firing at Fallujah, Iraq, during the Second Battle of Fallujah

A B-26 light bomber of the 3rd Bomb Wing has its 14 forward firing .50 caliber machine guns tested prior to a night mission against enemy targets in North Korea, where the 3rd Wing B-24 Night Intruders were devastatingly effective.

An amazing image showing a U.S. Air Force Sikorsky HH-53E helicopter crewman firing a M134 mini-gun during rescue patrol over South Vietnam.

Two machine gunners preparing to target an enemy airplane with their Vickers machine gun in France during World War I.

The guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) fires a round from one of her two MK-45 5-inch guns during a joint exercise (Talisman Sabre) with vessels assigned to the USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Carrier Strike Group, 2005, in the Coral Sea.

The USS New Jersey (BB-62) fires a nine gun salvo of 40.6 cm into a target Kaesong, Korea on 1 January 1, 1953. Happy New Year!

An amazing perspective aboard a USMC M67 flame-thrower tank in Vietnam, 1968.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Benfold fires its 5″/54 MK 45 gun during routine training operations off the coast of Southern California.

Armor Soldiers assigned to 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, fire their Main Gun Systems (MGS) Stryker’s 105 mm main gun during a live fire range at Yakima Training Center, WA, March 2011.

A British Hawker Typhoon's rockets raining down on a tug caught in the Scheldt estuary, September 1944.

The USS Missouri (BB-63) firing its 16-inch (410 mm) guns at night, shelling Iraqi targets along the northern Kuwaiti coast during Operation Desert Storm, February 1991.

Marines with India battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, fire Gun 1 as part of a combined training operation with the Iraqi Army, January 2008.

An RAF Hawker Typhoon attacking train cars in Germany with 60 lb rocket projectiles. Notice that one has already been hit.

Anti-aircraft fire during an air raid on Algiers by the Nazis. 1943.

A German anti-aircraft team at work in the mountains of the Central Caucasus, 1942.

Katyusha rockets, or as the Germans called them, Stalin's organs, in action.

Firing the Army's Multiple Launch Rocket System during testing at White Sands Missile Range, January 2005.

An MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) in action in 1982.

Another MLRS going about its business, in 1989.

A LAROM (an enhanced Romanian version of the BM-21 rocket launcher) firing a salvo.

Russian rockets helping to pummel Berlin into submission and topple the Nazi regime.

A Marine with a company from 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion fires on his target while he conducts shooting drills.

An A-10 Thunderbolt II of the Air Force Reserve Command’s 47th Fighter Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base, La fires during the Hawgsmoke 2010 competition at the Saylor Creek Range in Idaho.

An American tank destroyer firing near St. Lo, Normandy, June 1944.

An F-100D-85-NH Super Sabre fires a salvo of 2.75-inch rockets against an enemy position in South Vietnam in 1967. This aircraft was lost with its pilot, 1Lt Clive Jeffs, after an engine failure near Nha Trang on 12 March 1971.

American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France, July 11, 1944.

From the beaches Marines of the 4th Division shell well-entrenched Japanese positions on Iwo Jima, February 1945.

Soldiers from U.S. Army Europe's Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment, fire a 120 mm illumination round in celebration of the Afghan New Year at Forward Operating Base Baylough in the Zabul province of Afghanistan on March 19, 2009.

U.S. Army soldiers fire mortar rounds at suspected Taliban fighting positions during Operation Mountain Fire in Barge Matal, Nuristan province, Afghanistan, after having secured the remote mountain village a few days before, July 12, 2009.

A .50 caliber machine gun firing aboard the Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship USS Monsoon (PC4) during an Advanced Phase Training Exercise (APTEX).

A Bell P-39 Airacobra in flight with all guns ablazing at night.

Wasp flamethrowers fitted to standard bullet-proof carriers in action. These flamethrowers had a range exceeding 150 yards

An F-4B Phantom II from the Attack Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) firing Zuni-rockets during an exercise in 1964. Aircraft of CVW-14 were among the first to fly strikes in the Vietname War in August 1964.

An Air Force AC-130 Hercules aircraft during target practice.

4.5 inch rockets being fired from the M4-Sherman Calliope, France.

U.S. Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider attack planes from USS Valley Forge (CV-45) firing 5-inch rockets at a North Korean position, October 1950..

The crew of 40mm guns hard at work firing aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12) on February 16, 1945, as the planes of Task Force 58 were raiding Tokyo.

An HH-60H Seahawk assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Warfare Squadron Four (HS-4), fires flairs during an air demonstration above the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), 2006.

A U.S. Marine Corps Flamethrower Tank in Action near Da Nang. While the Army no longer had flamethrower tanks by that time the Marine Corps sent several to Vietnam.

Torching an area in Tarmiyah Qada, Iraq, August, 2008, so as to deny the enemy a clear line of sight along a road between Mushada and Tarmiyah.

A U.S. riverboat blasting napalm during the Vietnam War.

A Cobra firing precision-guided rockets during a training mission, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan.

A Seahawk assigned to the "Raptors" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 fires the first of four live Hellfire missiles