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The 15 cm Ring Kanone L/26 or Lange 15 cm Ring Kanone was a 15 cm 26 caliber 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 that for penetrating armor, it might be more effective to increase the charge then to increase the caliber.
The 15 cm RK L/22 were on all shifting carriages. [29] There were multiple sliding carriages for the 15 cm RK L/22. The Rahmenlafette c/68 der kz. 15 cm RK für eine Pforte weighed 2,005 kg and had a firing height of 855 mm. The Rahmenlafette c/68 der kz. 15 cm RK für Pfortenwechsel weighed 2,035 kg and also had a firing height of 855 mm. [30]
The other 30.5 cm gun was the showpiece of the Krupp pavilion on the 1 May to 31 October 1873 Vienna World's Fair. [5] The 30.5 cm L/22 gun got extensive media coverage by its appearance on the Vienna fair. Multiple military delegations visited the fair and made reports about the gun.
The 26 cm RK L/22 was a gun from a family of Krupp naval artillery guns designed in the late 1860s. The gun was used on warships of the Imperial German Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy . During World War I , it was used as coastal artillery by the Ottoman Empire .
The 28 cm RK L/22 was used at multiple places on the German coast. The 28 cm RK L/22 was also used in the armored gun turrets on the mouth of the Weser. It is known to have been used in the gun turret of Langlütjen II, where it was mounted on the minimalscharte carriage. [30] In 1873, Turkey ordered 12 28 cm RK L/22 for its coastal defence ...
The 15 cm guns would have a caliber of 14.91 cm and would come in a two 25 caliber versions, a 30 caliber version, and a 35 caliber long version. [21] However, the first 15 cm L/30 gun that Krupp actually made had a caliber of 152.4 mm (i.e. 6"). Its consistent name could have been 15 cm MRK L/30.
The Krupp guns used prismatic gun powder, the British gun used Pebble-powder. The Krupp 17 cm gun fired with a charge of 11.8 kg, the British 7-inch with 13.6 kg. The results showed that the Krupp 17 cm clearly outclassed the British 7-inch gun. [26] In Japan, the ironclad FusÅ had four 24 cm guns and two 17 cm RK L/25, used as chase guns. [27]
The tests with smaller caliber long guns, the 15 cm MRK L/28, the 24 cm L25/5, the 35.5 cm MRK L/25 and the 40 cm MRK L/25 led Krupp to design a whole new series of longer 30 and 35 caliber long guns, the so-called C/80 system. It meant that the characteristics of 24 cm guns of 30 and 35 caliber length had been calculated.