Canister shot is a kind of anti-personnel artillery ammunition. It has been used since the advent of gunpowder-firing artillery in Western armies, and...
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Downs Canister shot, a type of artillery round used in warfare as anti-personnel ammunition Tin can (refers more specifically to a metal canister) Jerrycan...
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Snake shot, rat shot, or dust shot, more formally known as shotshell (a name shared with the shotgun shell) or canister shot, refers to handgun and rifle...
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Grapeshot (redirect from Grape shot)
stop smaller shot. Second, the shot was cast large enough to cut rigging, destroy spars and blocks, and puncture multiple sails. Canister shot, also known...
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Spider shot was a variation of chain shot with multiple chains. Round shot Heated shot Canister shot Grapeshot Duck, B. (2010). Shipwrecks of the Dominican...
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developing an anti-personnel weapon. At the time artillery could use "canister shot" to defend themselves from infantry or cavalry attack, which involved...
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filles (beautiful daughters). Gribeauval cannons fired canister shot for close-range work and round shot at more distant targets. In 1803 the Year XI system...
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Naval artillery (redirect from Double-shotted)
effect of canister shot, with a time fuze to open the canister and disperse the bullets it contained at some distance along the canister's trajectory...
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caisson-carried canister rounds for the 8-pounder and three rounds of canister for the 6-inch howitzer. Scotty Bowden and Charlie Tarbox gave canister shot ranges...
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rifle was capable of firing shell, shrapnel shell (case shot), canister shot, or solid shot. Midway through the war, the Federal government discontinued...
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round shot a distance of 1,619 to 1,680 yd (1,480 to 1,536 m) at 5° elevation. It could also fire canister shot, common shell, and spherical case shot. The...
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Volley gun (redirect from Volley shot)
volley guns were not particularly more useful than a cannon firing canister shot or grapeshot. Since they were still mounted on a carriage, they could...
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gun for all round field service then made. They fired solid shot, shell, grape and canister, and were accurate at a mile. We would not have exchanged them...
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to get a limited amount of HE ammunition from the British Army. The canister shot was not seen in significant amounts until early 1945. Some British stocks...
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French mitrailleuse of the 1860s and 1870s, and field cannons firing canister shot, much like an upsized shotgun. The latter was widely used during and...
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of 1,504 yd (1,375.3 m) at 5° elevation. It also fired canister shot and spherical case shot. The howitzer was originally designed to be used in a mixed...
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Parrott rifle could fire shell, shrapnel shell (case shot), canister shot, and more rarely solid shot. In spite of the reinforcing band, the 20-pounder earned...
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an elevation of 5°. The 3-inch rifle was not as effective in firing canister shot as the heavier 12-pounder Napoleon, but it proved to be highly accurate...
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techniques such as Killer Junior supplanting the use of Beehive. Canister shot (or case-shot) Lazy Dog (bomb) Eitan Barak, ed. (2011), Deadly Metal Rain:...
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shell filled with three internal smoke canisters ejected by a Base Ejection (BE) device. CAN : a canister shot consisting of a black metal cylinder filled...
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projectiles from its barrel, as well as grapeshot, chain shot, shrapnel, and later shells and canister shot. It was first used during the Tudor period and was...
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also offered an excellent target for the Texian artillery. Lacking canister shot, Texians filled their cannon with any metal they could find, including...
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positions, and breach openings in walls for infantry to access; and M1040 canister shot for use against dismounted infantry in the open. The M68A1E4 will be...
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of a ball rather than two balls. Canister shot An anti-personnel projectile which included many small iron round shot or lead musket balls in a metal can...
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(2.8 kg) round shot up to a distance of 1,523 yd (1,393 m) at 5° elevation. It could also fire canister shot and spherical case shot (shrapnel). The...
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directional anti-personnel mine with similar effects to that said firearm. Canister shot Guns of similar size or application Anti-materiel rifle Anti-tank rifle...
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typically either "shot" (if solid) or "shell" (if not solid). Historically, variants of solid shot including canister, chain shot and grapeshot were...
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occupied by opposing players, and some tanks have been demonstrated firing canister shot consisting of several paintballs between two paper wads, or contained...
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long abandoned for considerably improved penetration performance of solid shot AP, APC and APCBC ammunition technology. The APHE shell itself was of the...
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McBreen, Roschevitz killed five or six people standing together with a canister shot from his M79 grenade launcher, which had a shotgun effect after exploding;...
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