- A
smoothbore weapon is one that has a
barrel without rifling.
Smoothbores range from
handheld firearms to
powerful tank guns and
large artillery mortars...
-
unbanded 8-inch
smoothbore, but
nothing further is
known of it.
Similar attempts to bore out
flawed 7-inch gun
blocks to 9-inch (229 mm)
smoothbores were unsuccessful...
- 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...
- 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...
-
Rifled muskets were
smoothbore firearms returned to the
armory or
contractors for rifling.
Considerable numbers of armory-stored
smoothbores were converted...
- 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...
-
single elephant), they soon
developed into
larger caliber black powder smoothbores. The
caliber was
still measured in bore or gauge—10, 8, 6, 4 bore, and...
- even as
rifled muskets became more available, some
regiments kept
their smoothbores; the 12th New
Jersey for
example carried theirs for the
duration of the...
-
caliber firearm.
Historically it was used to fire
solid projectiles from
smoothbores, rifles, and
partially rifled ball and shot guns, as well as shot from...
- unsatisfactory. In 1849, then-lieutenant
Dahlgren began to
design a
family of
smoothbore muzzle-loading boat
howitzers that
could be
mounted in ships' launches...
