A History of Military Rifle Calibers: The .30 Caliber Era, 1904-1954
By Nathaniel F
A trend towards ever more powerful and longer-ranged ammunition was cut short by the realities of the First World War: Technologies not previously invented or accounted for, such as the man-reaping machine gun and the portable infantry mortar made the existing infantry tactics of long-range volley fire not just obsolete, but quaint. Further, new essential […]
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