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  1. The patent application for the Sedgley single shot glove pistol was submitted after WW2 in 1947. (2/3)

    #WW2 #Spy #OSS #Ordnance #Resistance

  2. April is Spy Ordnance Month: Introducing the Sedgley, the Office of Strategic Services’ single shot .38 caliber glove pistol. The gun’s trigger bar protrudes from the front of the device when the gloved hand is made into a fist. Very few of the weapons were manufactured and it is uncertain if the gun saw much actual wartime use. (1/3)

    #WW2 #Spy #Resistance #Ordnance #OSS

  3. Weapons maker Saab ‘directly linked’ to human rights harm over missile at Lake Hart

    A multinational weapons manufacturer backed by the Australian government has been “directly linked” to a human rights violation…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #Humanrights #lakehart #missile #ordnance #RAAF #range #rocket #saab #Testing #violation #Weapons #woomera
    newsbeep.com/198348/

  4. @asiny
    Thai #army probing #landmine incident on border
    "Officials want to know when Russian-made mine was planted after Thai soldier loses foot.. Explosive #ordnance #disposal units in te area reportedly said tt te PMN-2 landmines, which are made in #Russia, are not used by the Thai army.. Both #Thailand & #Cambodia r signatories to te #Ottawa #Convention, which officially prohibits te use of anti-personnel landmines, having ratified te agreement in 1999" #OttawaTreaty
    bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener

  5. A bomb left by Israel in a Gaza home. (Rasha Abou Jalal)

    Demining crews found dozens of mines that were intentionally placed and others that were unexploded ordnance due to a technical malfunction among the rubble of houses.

    According to the head of the bomb disposal department, the volume of unexploded ordnance weighs about 9,000 tons.

    It could take 14 years to make Gaza safe from unexploded ordnance.

    electronicintifada.net/content

    @palestine
    #Gaza
    #BoobyTraps
    #ordnance