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    A rifled muzzle loader (RML) is a type of large artillery piece invented in the mid-19th century. In contrast to smooth bore cannon which preceded it,...
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  • A 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"...
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  • 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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  • Muzzleloader (redirect from Muzzle-loader)
    Breech-loading firearms Caplock mechanism Firearms Flintlock Matchlock Miquelet Musket Pepperbox Snaphance Snaplock Terzerol Wheellock Rifled muzzle loader List...
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    warships such as HMS Warrior, but eventually new rifled muzzle loaders made all smoothbore muzzle-loading guns obsolete. However, the large surplus stocks...
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  • barrel, and then fired at the target. Muzzle-loading artillery came in smoothbore and rifled form, the rifled guns increasingly taking over from the...
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    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)
    mid-19th century were mostly smoothbore muzzle-loaders. Only a few muzzleloading weapons, such as mortars, rifle grenades, some rocket launchers, such as...
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    The Brooke rifle was a type of rifled, muzzle-loading naval and coast defense gun designed by John Mercer Brooke, an officer in the Confederate States...
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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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    Gun barrel (redirect from Muzzle (firearms))
    The muzzle can also be threaded on the outside to allow the attachment of different accessory devices. In rifled barrels, the contour of a muzzle is designed...
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    The Ordnance RML 7-pounder Mk IV "Steel Gun" was a British rifled muzzle-loading mountain gun. 7-pounder referred to the approximate weight of the shell...
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  • designed by Joseph Whitworth during the 1860s. It was a rifled muzzle loader and used his hexagonal rifled bore design, the principle of which is described in...
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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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  • rifle was adopted by the Union Army, especially by the cavalry, during the American Civil War but did not replace the standard issue muzzle-loading rifled...
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    designed by Joseph Whitworth during the 1860s. It was a rifled muzzle loader and used his hexagonal, rifled-bore design. The gun used polygonal rifling, a principle...
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    highest muzzle energy might not be in the same load as the highest muzzle velocity, since the bullet weights can differ between loads). Factory loadings. Number...
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  • RMLS may refer to: Rifled muzzle loader, a mid-19th century artillery piece Regional Multiple Listing Service, a tool employed by real estate brokers Regional...
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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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    size at the Elswick Ordnance Company in Newcastle. The gun was a rifled muzzle-loader of 22,000 kg (49,000 lb) that fired shells of up to 600 pounds (270 kg)...
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    The RML 16-pounder 12 cwt gun was a British Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) field artillery gun manufactured in England in the 19th century, which fired a...
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    Hitte, was an artillery system designed in March 1858 to implement rifled muzzle-loading guns in the French Army. The La Hitte system was developed through...
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    Historic Place by Heritage New Zealand. The fort included two rifled 64 pounder muzzle-loading guns, which had a range of about three kilometres. The fort...
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    106.7 mm (4.2 inch, or "Four-deuce") heavy mortar is an American rifled, muzzle-loading, high-angle-of-fire weapon used for long-range indirect fire support...
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  • Marriage Law in China Riemann Musiklexikon, a music encyclopedia Rifled muzzle loader, a type of gun common in the 19th century AEC Routemaster, a type...
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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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    tige muzzle-loading rifle was judged to be a better weapon, and an improved version was adopted as the Pattern 1851 Minié-type muzzle-loading rifle. After...
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    mountain gun was a British rifled muzzle-loading mountain gun of the late 19th century designed to be broken down into four loads for carrying by man or mule...
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    The Parrott rifle was a type of muzzle-loading rifled artillery weapon used extensively in the American Civil War. The gun was invented by Captain Robert...
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  • was designed to allow rapid muzzle loading of rifles and was an innovation that brought about the widespread use of the rifle as the main battlefield weapon...
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