Iron Hand may refer to: *

Iron hand (prosthesis) Iron hands are metal prosthesis, prostheses for hands and upper extremities from the Middle Ages and early modern period. These designs combined cosmetic and functional properties. The most famous example of an iron hand was made around the year ...

, a kind of prosthetic limb popular in Europe in the 15th-19th centuries ** Goetz von Berlichingen Iron Hand (c. 1480–1562), German Imperial Knight and mercenary * "Iron Hand" (song), 1991 Dire Straits song * Iron Hand Society, a Syrian nationalist group organized in 1921 * Iron palm or iron hand, a body of training techniques in various Chinese martial arts *

Operation Iron Hand Operation Iron Hand was a joint United States Air Force (USAF) and United States Navy (USN) operation conducted from October 17, 1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam War. It was a type of Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) mission, primarily int ...

, a US military operation conducted during the Vietnam War * "Iron Hand", a song by Battle Beast from their album ''

Steel Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that demonstrates improved mechanical properties compared to the pure form of iron. Due to steel's high Young's modulus, elastic modulus, Yield (engineering), yield strength, Fracture, fracture strength a ...

'' * "Iron Hand", a song by Grand Magus from their album '' The Hunt'' * ''The Iron Hand'', the U.K. edition of '' The Iron Clew'', a 1947 novel by Phoebe Atwood Taylor * A 1970s comic strip drawn by Irish artist

Paddy Brennan Paddy Brennan (born ) is an Irish comics artist who worked mainly in the UK, drawing adventure strips for D. C. Thomson & Co. titles. He was a freelancer, working six months of the year in Dublin and six months in London.Peter Hansen, , 2004 H ...

* The original name of the 1960s U.S. Air Force mission

Wild Weasel Wild Weasel is a code name given by the United States Air Force (USAF) to any aircraft equipped with anti-radiation missiles and used to suppress enemy air defenses by destroying their radar and surface-to-air missile (SAM) installations.Hew ...

* An alternative name for the

Claw of Archimedes The Claw of Archimedes (; also known as the iron hand) was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to defend the seaward portion of Syracuse's city wall against amphibious assault. Although its exact nature is unclear, the accounts of ancient h ...

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