A rifled breech loader (RBL) is an artillery piece which, unlike the smoothbore cannon and rifled muzzle loader which preceded it, has rifling in the...
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muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm or artillery piece that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore. The term "rifled muzzle loader" typically...
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bores, and were installed in forts and ships. This new gun and the rifled breech loader (RBL) generated a huge arms race in the late 19th century, with rapid...
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Armstrong gun (redirect from Armstrong breech-loading gun)
An Armstrong gun was a uniquely designed type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy gun designed by Sir William Armstrong and manufactured in England...
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Breechloader (redirect from Breech loader)
rifles. The first modern breech-loading rifled gun is a breech-loader invented by Martin von Wahrendorff with a cylindrical breech plug secured by a horizontal...
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A breech-loading swivel gun was a particular type of swivel gun and a small breech-loading cannon invented in the 14th century. It was equipped with a...
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from inside the barrel in the Coventry Ordnance Works during WWI Rifled breech loader Brassey's Naval Annual 1899, page 389 http://www.gwpda.org/naval/brassey/b1899o06...
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or built-up gun used by Germany. It was a rifled breech loader with a Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech and a Broadwell ring. The 24 cm K L/20 was...
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Shell (projectile) (section Rifled breech loaders)
existing smooth-bore muzzle-loaders with a smaller powder charge. The gun was also a breech-loader. Although attempts at breech-loading mechanisms had been made...
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21 cm RK L/19 (section The sliding wedge breech)
The 21 cm RK L/19 was the later name of a rifled breech loader gun of the Prussian Navy. This gun started with a massive gun barrel, cast from steel in...
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Swivel gun (redirect from Breech-loading swivel guns)
particular the bronze breechloader with 2 inches (5.08 cm) bore. Steel rifled breech-loading swivel guns are known which were manufactured by the United States...
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Mantel Ring Kanone (MRK). It was a rifled breech loader built-up gun with a Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech. It was exhibited at the 1876 Centennial...
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RBL 7-inch Armstrong gun (redirect from 100-pounder breech-loader)
caliber Armstrong gun, an early type of rifled breechloader. William Armstrong's innovative combination of a rifled built-up gun with breechloading had proven...
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Mantel Ring Kanone (MRK). It was a rifled breech loader built-up gun with a Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech. It was a further development of the...
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The 12 Pounder Rifled Breech-Loading Gun is a heritage-listed weapon at 72 End Street, Deniliquin, Edward River Council, New South Wales, Australia. It...
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It was a breech-loading cannon; the breech of the cannon is uniquely like a bolt-action but has no firing pin in its bolt. Rifled breech loader v t e...
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that were rifled so that they could fire a new type of bullet that greatly enhanced both its accuracy and range. These "rifled muskets" or "rifle muskets"...
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Breechblock (redirect from Split breech rifle)
A breechblock (or breech block) is the part of the firearm action that closes the breech of a breech loading weapon (whether small arms or artillery) before...
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Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot, falling-block, breech-loading rifles, beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848 and ceasing...
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Remington Rolling Block is a family of breech-loading rifles that was produced from the mid-1860s into the early 20th century by E. Remington and Sons...
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followed by the mass adoption of breech-loading weapons, as it was not practical to push an overbore bullet down through a rifled barrel. The dirt and grime...
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(built-up gun) used for coastal defence. It was a rifled breech loader with a Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech. For some time it was the heaviest German...
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Infanteriegewehr Modell 1842 (redirect from Infantry rifle, type 1842)
Milbank-Amsler receiver system to convert it to a breech loader. Some weapons were also retrofitted with rifled barrels in the 1860s. Ernst Hostettler (1987)...
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during wartime as the "Examination Battery", was a fixed battery of rifled breech-loader (RBL) artillery guns, built and manned by the Royal Garrison Artillery...
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Winchester and .45 Colt. The original Henry rifle was a sixteen-shot .44 caliber rimfire breech-loading lever-action rifle, patented by Benjamin Tyler Henry in...
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from 1882. They were the first British warships to carry large rifled breech-loading main guns. They were in all essential points improved versions of...
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Muzzleloader (redirect from Muzzle-loader)
of breech-loading firearms, in which user loads the ammunition into the breech end of the barrel. The term "muzzleloader" applies to both rifled and...
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long Krupp Ring Kanone. It was a rifled breech loader built-up gun with a Krupp cylindroprismatic horizontal sliding breech. The gun became famous when it...
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designed to be held with both hands and fired from the shoulder. Early breech-loading firearms were single-shot devices holding a single cartridge. When that...
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M1841 Rifle "Mississippi Rifle" (percussion muzzle-loader;.54, .58) M1819 Hall rifle (Harper's Ferry;Breech-loader) Model 1817 Rifle ('Common rifle';Derringer...
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