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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.
Image Credit: Phan J. Alan Elliott.
An M-198 155mm Howitzer of the US Marines firing at Fallujah, Iraq, during the Second Battle of Fallujah
Image Credit: Lance Corporal Samantha L. Jones, USMC
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.
Image Credit: US NARA
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.
Image Credit: Paul Hagerty, SSgt, USAF
Two machine gunners preparing to target an enemy airplane with their Vickers machine gun in France during World War I.
Image Credit: John Warwick Brooke
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.
Image Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Bo J. Flannigan
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!
Image Credit: USN
An amazing perspective aboard a USMC M67 flame-thrower tank in Vietnam, 1968.
Image Credit: PD
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Benfold fires its 5″/54 MK 45 gun during routine training operations off the coast of Southern California.
Image Credit: U.S. Navy, Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Felix Garza Jr
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.
Image Credit: US Army
A British  Hawker Typhoon's rockets raining down on a tug caught in the Scheldt estuary, September 1944.
Image Credit: Royal Air Force Official Photographer
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.
Image Credit: PH3 Dillon
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.
Image Credit: Lance Cpl. Paul M. Torres
An RAF Hawker Typhoon attacking train cars in Germany with 60 lb rocket projectiles. Notice that one has already been hit.
Image Credit: Shaw (F/Sgt), RAF photographer
Anti-aircraft fire during an air raid on Algiers by the Nazis. 1943.
Image Credit: Lt. W. R. Wilson. (Army)
A German anti-aircraft team at work in the mountains of the Central Caucasus, 1942.
Image Credit: German Federal Archives
Katyusha rockets, or as the Germans called them, Stalin's organs, in action.
Image Credit: St. Iwan
Firing the Army's Multiple Launch Rocket System during testing at White Sands Missile Range, January 2005.
Image Credit: U.S. Army photo
An MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) in action in 1982.
Image Credit: US Army
Another MLRS going about its business, in 1989.
Image Credit: Department of Defense
A LAROM (an enhanced Romanian version of the BM-21 rocket launcher) firing a salvo.
Image Credit: Romanian Ministery of Defence
Russian rockets helping to pummel Berlin into submission and topple the Nazi regime.
Image Credit: Russian State Archive
A Marine with a company from 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion fires on his target while he conducts shooting drills.
Image Credit: MARSOC Public Affairs Office
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.
Image Credit: United States Air Force
An American tank destroyer firing near St. Lo, Normandy, June 1944.
Image Credit: Archivesnormandie 1939-45
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.
Image Credit: USAF
American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France,  July 11, 1944.
Image Credit: PD
From the beaches Marines of the 4th Division shell well-entrenched Japanese positions on Iwo Jima, February 1945.
Image Credit: PD
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.
Image Credit: Staff Sgt. Adam Mancini, U.S. Army
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.
Image Credit: US Army
A .50 caliber machine gun firing aboard the Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship USS Monsoon (PC4) during an Advanced Phase Training Exercise (APTEX).
Image Credit: U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathan Sunderman
A Bell P-39 Airacobra in flight with all guns ablazing at night.
Image Credit: U.S. Air Force
Wasp flamethrowers fitted to standard bullet-proof carriers in action. These flamethrowers had a range exceeding 150 yards
Image Credit: War Office official photographer
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.
Image Credit: USN
An Air Force AC-130 Hercules aircraft during target practice.
Image Credit: US Air Force
4.5 inch rockets being fired from the M4-Sherman Calliope, France.
Image Credit: Official US Signal Corps photo
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..
Image Credit: Camera Operator: Burke, USN
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.
Image Credit: Lt. Comdr. Charles Kerlee, USN
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.
Image Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Kathleen Gorby
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.
Image Credit: Starry, Donn A Mounted combat in Vietnam. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
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.
Image Credit: U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Whitney Houston
A U.S. riverboat blasting napalm during the Vietnam War.
Image Credit: U.S. Naval War College Museum
A Cobra firing precision-guided rockets during a training mission, off the coast of Okinawa, Japan.
Image Credit: Gunnery Sergeant Dean B. Verschoor
A Seahawk assigned to the "Raptors" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 fires the first of four live Hellfire missiles
Image Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mark A. Leonesio

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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. 1 USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of her nine 16"/50 and six 5"/…
An M-198 155mm Howitzer of the US Marines firing at Fallujah, Iraq, during the Second Battle of Fallujah 2 An M-198 155mm Howitzer of the US Marines firing at Fallujah, Iraq, du…
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. 3 A B-26 light bomber of the 3rd Bomb Wing has its 14 forward firing .50…
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. 4 An amazing image showing a U.S. Air Force Sikorsky HH-53E helicopter c…
Two machine gunners preparing to target an enemy airplane with their Vickers machine gun in France during World War I. 5 Two machine gunners preparing to target an enemy airplane with their V…
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. 6 The guided missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG 63) fires a round from one …
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! 7 The USS New Jersey (BB-62) fires a nine gun salvo of 40.6 cm into a ta…
An amazing perspective aboard a USMC M67 flame-thrower tank in Vietnam, 1968. 8 An amazing perspective aboard a USMC M67 flame-thrower tank in Vietnam…
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Benfold fires its 5″/54 MK 45 gun during routine training operations off the coast of Southern California. 9 The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Benfold fires its 5″/54 MK 45 gun …
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. 10 Armor Soldiers assigned to 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infant…
A British  Hawker Typhoon's rockets raining down on a tug caught in the Scheldt estuary, September 1944. 11 A British Hawker Typhoon's rockets raining down on a tug caught in th…
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. 12 The USS Missouri (BB-63) firing its 16-inch (410 mm) guns at night, sh…
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. 13 Marines with India battery, 3rd Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, fire …
An RAF Hawker Typhoon attacking train cars in Germany with 60 lb rocket projectiles. Notice that one has already been hit. 14 An RAF Hawker Typhoon attacking train cars in Germany with 60 lb rocke…
Anti-aircraft fire during an air raid on Algiers by the Nazis. 1943. 15 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. 16 A German anti-aircraft team at work in the mountains of the Central Ca…
Katyusha rockets, or as the Germans called them, Stalin's organs, in action. 17 Katyusha rockets, or as the Germans called them, Stalin's organs, in a…
Firing the Army's Multiple Launch Rocket System during testing at White Sands Missile Range, January 2005. 18 Firing the Army's Multiple Launch Rocket System during testing at Whit…
An MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) in action in 1982. 19 An MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System) in action in 1982.
Another MLRS going about its business, in 1989. 20 Another MLRS going about its business, in 1989.
A LAROM (an enhanced Romanian version of the BM-21 rocket launcher) firing a salvo. 21 A LAROM (an enhanced Romanian version of the BM-21 rocket launcher) fi…
Russian rockets helping to pummel Berlin into submission and topple the Nazi regime. 22 Russian rockets helping to pummel Berlin into submission and topple th…
A Marine with a company from 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion fires on his target while he conducts shooting drills. 23 A Marine with a company from 2nd Marine Special Operations Battalion f…
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. 24 An A-10 Thunderbolt II of the Air Force Reserve Command’s 47th Fight…
An American tank destroyer firing near St. Lo, Normandy, June 1944. 25 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. 26 An F-100D-85-NH Super Sabre fires a salvo of 2.75-inch rockets against…
American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, France,  July 11, 1944. 27 American howitzers shell German forces retreating near Carentan, Franc…
From the beaches Marines of the 4th Division shell well-entrenched Japanese positions on Iwo Jima, February 1945. 28 From the beaches Marines of the 4th Division shell well-entrenched Jap…
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. 29 Soldiers from U.S. Army Europe's Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Inf…
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. 30 U.S. Army soldiers fire mortar rounds at suspected Taliban fighting po…
A .50 caliber machine gun firing aboard the Cyclone-class coastal patrol ship USS Monsoon (PC4) during an Advanced Phase Training Exercise (APTEX). 31 A .50 caliber machine gun firing aboard the Cyclone-class coastal patr…
A Bell P-39 Airacobra in flight with all guns ablazing at night. 32 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 33 Wasp flamethrowers fitted to standard bullet-proof carriers in action.…
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. 34 An F-4B Phantom II from the Attack Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW-14) firing…
An Air Force AC-130 Hercules aircraft during target practice. 35 An Air Force AC-130 Hercules aircraft during target practice.
4.5 inch rockets being fired from the M4-Sherman Calliope, France. 36 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.. 37 U.S. Navy Douglas AD-4 Skyraider attack planes from USS Valley Forge (…
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. 38 The crew of 40mm guns hard at work firing aboard the U.S. aircraft car…
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. 39 An HH-60H Seahawk assigned to Helicopter Anti-Submarine Warfare Squadr…
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. 40 A U.S. Marine Corps Flamethrower Tank in Action near Da Nang. While th…
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. 41 Torching an area in Tarmiyah Qada, Iraq, August, 2008, so as to deny t…
A U.S. riverboat blasting napalm during the Vietnam War. 42 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. 43 A Cobra firing precision-guided rockets during a training mission, off…
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