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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

caliber Armstrong gun, an early type of rifled breechloader. William Armstrong's innovative combination of a rifled built-up gun with breechloading had proven...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

M1841 Rifle "Mississippi Rifle" (percussion muzzle-loader;.54, .58) M1819 Hall rifle (Harper's Ferry;Breech-loader) Model 1817 Rifle ('Common rifle';Derringer...

inventor. He is credited with the creation of the first successful rifled breech loader gun. He entered the Royal Academy of Turin in 1818, and graduated...