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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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"...

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...

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...

gun) used for coastal defence. It was developed from the earlier rifled breech loader 24 cm K L/20. In 1868 Prussia performed extensive testing of the...

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...

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...

Switzerland had adopted rifled cannon after its artillery committee proposed to acquire 12 batteries of 4-pounder rifled muzzle loaders (8.45 cm RML) in 1861...

long Krupp Ring Kanone (RK). It was a rifled breech loader built-up gun with a Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech. It was designed based on the idea...

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...

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...

coastal gun built by Krupp. It was a rifled breech loader built-up gun with a Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech. It included some significant innovations...

The BL 12 inch naval gun Mk I was a British rifled breech-loading naval gun of the early 1880s intended for the largest warships such as battleships and...

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...

Mantel Ring Kanone (MRK). It was a rifled breech loader built-up gun with a Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech. It was one of the few Krupp breechloaders...

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...