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64 relations: Artillery, Blakely rifle, Bombard (weapon), Breechloader, Bronze, Caliber, Cannon, Canon de 12 de Vallière, Canon de 24 de Vallière, Canon de 4 de Vallière, Canon de 6 système An XI, Canon obusier de 12, Cast iron, Chongtong, Culverin, Demi-cannon, Demi-culverin, Falconet (cannon), Field artillery, Galloper gun, Grasshopper cannon, Gunpowder, Hand cannon, Hongyipao, Howitzer, Jean-Jacques Keller, La Hitte system, Metallurgy, Minion (cannon), ML 8-inch shell gun, Mortar (weapon), Muzzle-loading rifle, Muzzleloader, Naval artillery, Obusier de 15 cm Valée, Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval, Parrott rifle, Rifling, RML 10-inch 18-ton gun, RML 11-inch 25-ton gun, RML 12-inch 25-ton gun, RML 12-inch 35-ton gun, RML 12.5-inch 38-ton gun, RML 16-inch 80-ton gun, RML 2.5-inch mountain gun, RML 6.3-inch howitzer, RML 64-pounder 64 cwt gun, RML 64-pounder 71 cwt gun, RML 7-inch gun, RML 7-pounder mountain gun, ... Expand index (14 more) »
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Artillery
Artillery are ranged weapons that launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms.
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Blakely rifle
Blakely rifle or Blakely gun is the name of a series of rifled muzzle-loading cannon designed by British army officer Captain Theophilus Alexander Blakely in the 1850s and 1860s. List of muzzle-loading guns and Blakely rifle are field artillery.
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Bombard (weapon)
The bombard is a type of cannon or mortar which was used throughout the Late Middle Ages and the early modern period.
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Breechloader
A breechloader is a firearm in which the user loads the ammunition from the breech end of the barrel (i.e., from the rearward, open end of the gun's barrel), as opposed to a muzzleloader, in which the user loads the ammunition from the (muzzle) end of the barrel.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.
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Caliber
In guns, particularly firearms, but not artillery, where a different definition may apply, caliber (or calibre; sometimes abbreviated as "cal") is the specified nominal internal diameter of the gun barrel bore – regardless of how or where the bore is measured and whether the finished bore matches that specification.
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Cannon
A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.
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Canon de 12 de Vallière
The Canon de 12 de Vallière was a type of cannon designed by French officer Florent-Jean de Vallière (1667–1759), Director-General of the Battalions and Schools of the Artillery.
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Canon de 24 de Vallière
The Canon de 24 de Vallière was a type of cannon designed by the French officer Florent-Jean de Vallière (1667–1759), Director-General of the Battalions and Schools of the Artillery.
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Canon de 4 de Vallière
The Canon de 4 de Vallière was a type of cannon designed by the French officer Florent-Jean de Vallière (1667-1759), Director-General of the Battalions and Schools of the Artillery.
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Canon de 6 système An XI
The Canon de 6 système An XI was a French cannon and part of the Year XI system of artillery.
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Canon obusier de 12
The Canon obusier de 12 (officially the "Canon obusier de campagne de 12 livres, modèle 1853"), also known as the "Canon de l’Empereur" ("emperor's cannon"), was a type of canon-obusier (literally "shell-gun cannon", "gun-howitzer") developed by France in 1853.
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Cast iron
Cast iron is a class of iron–carbon alloys with a carbon content of more than 2% and silicon content around 1–3%.
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Chongtong
The Chongtong was a term for military firearms of Goryeo and Joseon dynasty.
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Culverin
A culverin was initially an ancestor of the hand-held arquebus, but the term was later used to describe a type of medieval and Renaissance cannon.
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Demi-cannon
The demi-cannon was a medium-sized cannon, similar to but slightly larger than a culverin and smaller than a regular cannon, developed in the early 17th century.
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Demi-culverin
The demi-culverin was a medium cannon similar to but slightly larger than a saker and smaller than a regular culverin developed in the late 16th century.
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Falconet (cannon)
The falconet was a light cannon developed in the late 15th century that fired a smaller shot than the similar falcon.
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Field artillery
Field artillery is a category of mobile artillery used to support armies in the field.
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Galloper gun
The Galloper gun is an artillery piece used circa 1740 in British colonies (later the United States). List of muzzle-loading guns and Galloper gun are field artillery.
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Grasshopper cannon
Grasshopper was the nickname for a cannon used by the British in the late 18th century as a light battalion gun to support infantry. List of muzzle-loading guns and Grasshopper cannon are field artillery.
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Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.
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Hand cannon
The hand cannon, also known as the gonne or handgonne, is the first true firearm and the successor of the fire lance.
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Hongyipao
Hongyipao (hồng di pháo) was the Chinese name for portuguese-style muzzle-loading culverins introduced to China and Korea from the Portuguese colony of Macau and with the help of portuguese diplomats and advisors in the Beijing imperial Court like João Rodrigues.
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Howitzer
The howitzer is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar.
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Jean-Jacques Keller
Jean-Jacques Keller (1635–1700) and his brother Jean-Balthazar Keller (1638–1702) were Swiss gunfounders from Zürich, in the service of France.
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La Hitte system
The La Hitte system (système La Hitte), named after the French general Ducos, Count de La Hitte, was an artillery system designed in March 1858 to implement rifled muzzle-loading guns in the French Army.
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Metallurgy
Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys.
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Minion (cannon)
The minion (from the French mignon or "dainty") was a type of smoothbore cannon used during the Tudor period and into the late 17th century.
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ML 8-inch shell gun
The ML 8-inch shell guns of 50 cwt, 54 cwt and 65 cwt were the three variants of British cast iron smoothbore muzzle-loading guns designed specifically to fire the new generation of exploding shells pioneered in the early to mid-nineteenth century by Henri-Joseph Paixhans.
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Mortar (weapon)
A mortar today is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded cannon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and a sight.
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Muzzle-loading rifle
A muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm or artillery piece that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore.
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Muzzleloader
A muzzleloader is any firearm in which the user loads the projectile and the propellant charge into the muzzle end of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel).
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Naval artillery
Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare and then subsequently used for more specialized roles in surface warfare such as naval gunfire support (NGFS) and anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) engagements.
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Obusier de 15 cm Valée
The Obusier de 15 cm Valée, was a French Artillery 6-inches howitzer belonging to the Valée system (French:"Système Valée") of artillery developed between 1825 and 1831 by the French artillery officer Sylvain Charles Valée.
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Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval
The Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval or 6-inch howitzer was a French artillery piece and part of a system established by Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval.
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Parrott rifle
The Parrott rifle was a type of muzzle-loading rifled artillery weapon used extensively in the American Civil War. List of muzzle-loading guns and Parrott rifle are field artillery.
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Rifling
Rifling is the term for helical grooves machined into the internal surface of a firearms's barrel for imparting a spin to a projectile to improve its aerodynamic stability and accuracy.
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RML 10-inch 18-ton gun
The RML 10-inch guns Mk I – Mk II were large rifled muzzle-loading guns designed for British battleships and monitors in the 1860s to 1880s.
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RML 11-inch 25-ton gun
RML 11-inch 25-ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns used as primary armament on British battleships and for coastal defence.
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RML 12-inch 25-ton gun
The RML 12-inch 25-ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns of mid-late 1800s used as primary armament on British ironclad turret battleships and coastal monitors, and also ashore for coast defence.
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RML 12-inch 35-ton gun
RML 12-inch 35-ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns used as primary armament on British battleships of the 1870s.
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RML 12.5-inch 38-ton gun
The RML 12.5-inch guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns designed for British battleships and were also employed for coast defence.
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RML 16-inch 80-ton gun
RML 16-inch 80-ton guns were large rifled muzzle-loading guns intended to give the largest British battleships parity with the large guns being mounted by Italian and French ships in the Mediterranean Sea in the 1870s.
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RML 2.5-inch mountain gun
The Ordnance RML 2.5-inch 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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RML 6.3-inch howitzer
The RML 6.3-inch howitzer was a British rifled muzzle-loading "siege" or "position" howitzer/mortar proposed in 1874 and finally introduced in 1878 as a lighter version of the successful 8-inch howitzer that could be carried by the existing 40-pounder gun carriage.
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RML 64-pounder 64 cwt gun
The RML 64-pounder 64 cwt gun is a Rifled, Muzzle Loading (RML) naval, field or fortification artillery gun manufactured in England in the 19th century, which fired a projectile weighing approximately.
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RML 64-pounder 71 cwt gun
The RML 64-pounder 71 cwt guns (converted) were British rifled muzzle-loading guns converted from obsolete smoothbore 8-inch 65 cwt shell guns in the 1860s-1870s.
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RML 7-inch gun
The RML 7-inch guns were various designs of medium-sized rifled muzzle-loading guns used to arm small to medium-sized British warships in the late 19th century, and some were used ashore for coast defence.
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RML 7-pounder mountain gun
The Ordnance RML 7-pounder Mk IV "Steel Gun" was a British rifled muzzle-loading mountain gun.
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RML 8-inch 9-ton gun
The British RML 8-inch 9-ton guns Mark I – Mark III were medium rifled muzzle-loading guns used to arm smaller ironclad warships and coast defence batteries in the later 19th century.
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RML 9-inch 12-ton gun
The RML 9-inch guns Mark I – Mark VIMark I – Mark VI.
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Round shot
A round shot (also called solid shot or simply ball) is a solid spherical projectile without explosive charge, launched from a gun.
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Saker (cannon)
The saker was a medium cannon, slightly smaller than a culverin, developed during the early 16th century and often used by the English.
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Shell (projectile)
A shell, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling.
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Siege engine
A siege engine is a device that is designed to break or circumvent heavy castle doors, thick city walls and other fortifications in siege warfare.
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Smoothbore
A smoothbore weapon is one that has a barrel without rifling.
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Somerset cannon
The Somerset cannon was a British cannon designed within the Admiralty and manufactured by Armstrong's.
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Wiard rifle
The Wiard rifle refers to several weapons invented by Norman Wiard, most commonly a semi-steel light artillery piece in six-pounder and twelve-pounder calibers. List of muzzle-loading guns and Wiard rifle are field artillery.
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Wrought iron
Wrought iron is an iron alloy with a very low carbon content (less than 0.05%) in contrast to that of cast iron (2.1% to 4.5%).
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100-ton gun
The 100-ton gun (also known as the Armstrong 100-ton gun) was a rifled muzzle-loading (RML) gun made by Elswick Ordnance Company, the armaments division of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth, owned by William Armstrong.
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68-pounder gun
The 68-pounder cannon was an artillery piece designed and used by the British Armed Forces in the mid-19th century.
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68-pounder Lancaster gun
68-pounder Lancaster guns were a British rifled muzzle-loading cannon of the 1850s that fired a 68-pound shell.
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70-pounder Whitworth naval gun
The 70-pounder Whitworth naval gun was designed by Joseph Whitworth during the 1860s.
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See also
Lists of artillery
- Glossary of British ordnance terms
- Heavy artillery in the Royal Romanian Armed Forces
- List of World War II artillery
- List of aircraft artillery
- List of anti-aircraft guns
- List of anti-tank guns
- List of artillery
- List of artillery by country
- List of artillery by name
- List of artillery by type
- List of autocannon
- List of cannon projectiles
- List of coastal artillery
- List of field guns
- List of heavy mortars
- List of howitzers
- List of infantry mortars
- List of infantry support guns
- List of medieval and early modern gunpowder artillery
- List of mortar carriers
- List of mountain artillery
- List of muzzle-loading guns
- List of naval anti-aircraft guns
- List of naval guns
- List of naval guns by caliber
- List of naval guns by country
- List of railway artillery
- List of rocket artillery
- List of siege artillery
- List of tank guns
- List of the largest cannon by caliber
- List of wheeled self-propelled howitzers