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England's New Field Gun

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
March
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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A new and po werf ui fleld-gun, designed to supersede the sixtoen-pounder as the weapon of the field artillery, has been prored at the butts in the govern ment mai-shes adjoining the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, this week, and passed a satisfactory trial. ïhe new gun weighs the same as the sixteen-pounder, namely, twelve hundred weight, but is a breech-loader, and, like all the modern guns, bas an elongated chase or barrel. The construction is in all respeets identical with the most recent designs of the royal gun faetones. Tho metal is steel in concentrlc ooils. of guunery since the sixteen-pounder was produced by tho experimental eommittee in 1870 have enabled Col. Maitland, Superintendent of the royal faotorioa, to brins out this new gun of the samo weight to fire a projectile six pounds heavier, aud it will consequently be known in the servie as the twenty-two pounder. The sixteen-pounder flros oniy threo pounds of powder behind the shot, bnt the twenty-two pounder can with safety takc saven and a half pounds, and with this charge it bas this weck registerod tho remarkablo velocity of 1,775 f eet per second whieh is 420 fect higher than the best performanoo of the gun which is to extensivo range, and the gun will probably do effectire work with the shrapnel shell at a distanco of throe miles. A nuniber of the new gnns are to be at oneo manufactured at Woolwich. ■-

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