• 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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    An Armstrong gun was a type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy artillery piece designed by Sir William Armstrong. It was first manufactured in England...
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  • higher initial pressure in the breech of the gun. Rifled muzzle loader (RMLs) are artillery pieces of muzzle-loading rifle format, invented in the mid-19th...
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    Breechloader (redirect from Breech loader)
    Manual breech-loaders gave way to manual magazine feed and then to self-loading rifles. The first modern breech-loading rifled gun is a breech-loader invented...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The M1819 Hall rifle was a single-shot breech-loading rifle (also considered something of a hybrid breech and muzzle-loading design) designed by John...
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    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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  • The 12 Pounder Rifled Breech-Loading Gun is a heritage-listed weapon at 72 End Street, Deniliquin, New South Wales, in state's Riverina region. It was...
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  • Research Bureau Limited, the former name of Research International Rifled breech loader, a type of artillery Rogers Broadcasting Limited, a Canadian broadcasting...
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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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    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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    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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  • innovative rifled breechloading mechanism. It remained in use until 1902 when replaced by more modern Breech Loading (BL) guns. The Armstrong screw breech had...
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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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  • the gun as the type of rifled breechloading gun for which the powder charge was loaded in a silk or cloth bag and the breech mechanism was responsible...
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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 Cunningham...
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    The Canon de 24 C modèle 1864 was a cast iron rifled breech loader built-up gun used by the French Navy and as coastal artillery. The Dutch army used it...
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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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    12-inch Mark VIII naval gun was one of the first large British rifled breech-loading naval guns designed for the higher pressures generated by the new...
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    initially armed with a mix of rifled breech-loading and muzzle-loading smoothbore guns, but the Armstrong breech-loading guns proved unreliable and were...
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  • aimed rounds per minute with the breech-loader, compared with only three rounds per minute with the muzzle-loading weapon. From 1866 onwards, the Enfield...
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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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    predecessors the M1885 and M1890, was the U.S. Army's first steel, rifled, breech loading field gun. It was the Army's primary field artillery piece in the...
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    weapon was fired. The obturation, a big problem in earlier Krupp rifled breech loaders, was ensured by Broadwell ring design borrowed from American engineer...
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    .577/450 Martini–Henry (category Pistol and rifle cartridges)
    410 m/s). The first .577/450 Martini–Henry rifle cartridge, the Cartridge S.A. Ball Rifle Breech-Loading Martini Henry Mark I, was made of coiled brass...
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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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