- A
smoothbore weapon is one that has a
barrel without rifling.
Smoothbores range from
handheld firearms to
powerful tank guns and
large artillery mortars...
- A
musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that
appeared as a
smoothbore weapon in the
early 16th century, at
first as a
heavier variant of the arquebus, capable...
- The
following is a list of
ammunition fired by the 125 mm
smoothbore gun
series used in the T-64, T-72, T-80, M-84, T-90, PT-91, T-14 Armata, and other...
- The
Rheinmetall Rh-120 is a 120 mm
smoothbore tank gun
designed and
produced in
former West
Germany by the
Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH company. It...
-
Originally the term
referred only to
muskets that had been
produced as a
smoothbore weapon and
later had
their barrels replaced with
rifled barrels. The term...
- is a
firearm that
usually comprises at
least one
rifled barrel and one
smoothbore barrel, that is
typically used with shot or some type of
shotgun slug...
- such as 6, 4, or 2 bores, from then on
exclusively with
smoothbore barrels. The
smoothbore also, at
least until the
advent of breechloading,
could be...
-
percussion cap and the Minié ball,
rifled muskets had much
greater range than
smoothbore muskets while being easier to load than
previous rifles. Most firearms...
- unsatisfactory. In 1849, then-lieutenant
Dahlgren began to
design a
family of
smoothbore muzzle-loading boat
howitzers that
could be
mounted in ships' launches...
- The M256 is an
American 120 mm
smoothbore tank gun. It is a licensed-built German-designed
Rheinmetall Rh-120 L44 gun tube and
combustible cartridges with...
