Bond and His Equipments

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Have you watched Quantum of Solace? As usual spy film starring James Bond are full of special gadgets. For example: lipstick guns, hubcap lasers, cyanide cigarettes, missile launcher leg casts and rocket-launching radios.

In this article, we'll check out the gadgets that James Bond has used. However, some of you maybe do not know who is James Bond?

It was said that this secret agent birth date is in the 1920s. His Scottish father worked for a British arms firm and was killed while mountain climbing along with Bond's Swiss mother when James was eleven.

Bond attended several prominent schools before enlisting in the Royal Navy during World War II, where he rose to the rank of commander. Following the War, he entered the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6, short for 6th Branch of the Military Intelligence Directorate.

His first two assignments were assassinations, which led to his permanent designation as a "00" agent, one with a license to kill in the line of duty. As the seventh such agent, he was designated Agent 007.

Bond usually operates under a pseudonym, usually as a representative of Import Exports Organization. His charm and charisma are reinforced by his taste for fine suits, fast cars and his signature beverage: a dry martini, shaken, not stirred. Bond's missions bring him into contact with both sophisticated elites and shady underworld figures.

Although Bond is a gifted athlete and well-trained in martial arts, he doesn’t have to rely on his intelligence and physical prowess alone. The Q Branch of MI6 regularly outfits 007 with smart devices, usually in the form of an ordinary object that hides an explosive, a gun or another key item.

Q Branch is the research and development arm of MI6, the semi-fictional British intelligence agency that employs Bond. Q stands for quartermaster, and the head of the department uses codename Q, though the original Q's real name was Major Boothroyd.

In any Bond’s movie, he is a man who can accomplish challenging missions regardless of the political, monetary or private consequences.

There are a few pieces of equipment that James Bond never leaves home without. It's his Walther PPK handgun, worn inconspicuously in a shoulder holster. It is compact and reliable even though not classified as a most powerful gun in the world.

Some other equipment used on the Bond’s movie:

1. A pen filled with acid to melt metal, which also included a radio transmitter (Octopussy)
2. A credit card containing a concealed lock pick and X-ray glasses (The World Is Not Enough)
3. A cellular phone with software that could break into electronic locks and emit an electric shock of 12,000 volts (Tomorrow Never Dies)
4. A briefcase with hidden compartments holding ammunition, a knife, gold coins and a talcum powder bottle that released tear gas (From Russia With Love)
5. A cigarette that fired a miniature rocket (You Only Live Twice)
6. Key chain with a skeleton key and a device that could trigger knockout gas or an explosive charge, depending on how Bond whistled (The Living Daylights)
7. A pen that was actually a grenade (Goldeneye)

That’s it for today. As a spy you should watch Bond’s movie, learn something or get idea to be implemented in your works.

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