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However, the two treaty-era battleships fired their shells at a lower muzzle velocity, which made their plunging fire superior to that of the 16"/50 caliber gun. [ 7 ] The Mark 8 shells gave the North Carolina , South Dakota , and Iowa classes the second-heaviest broadside of all battleship classes, even though the first two ship classes were ...
Grapeshot used fewer but larger projectiles than were contained within canister or shrapnel shells. [1] Case shot broadly describes any multi-projectile artillery ammunition. The canister round is known as a case, so canister was sometimes called case shot and the term has confusingly become generic for grapeshot and shrapnel shells. [1]
In pyrotechnics a salute is a device primarily designed to make a loud report (bang), rather than have a visual effect, although most salutes also have a bright flash. They most commonly consist of a 70:30 mixture of potassium perchlorate and dark aluminium powder and may have titanium added for a cloud of sparks (titanium salute). [ 1 ]
CCI .22LR snake shot loaded with No. 12 shot. Snake shot, rat shot, or dust shot, [1] more formally known as shotshell [2] (a name shared with the shotgun shell) or canister shot, refers to handgun and rifle cartridges loaded with lead shot canisters instead of bullets, intended for pest control (essentially small arms canister shot).
Shrapnel's innovation was to combine the multi-projectile shotgun effect of canister shot, with a time fuse (“fuze” rather than “fuse” is more accurate terminology for a device that initiates an explosive) to open the canister and disperse the shot it contained at some distance along the canister's trajectory from the gun. His shell was ...
Shell: 127 x 835mm .R Conventional: 31.75 kg (70.0 lb) Caliber: 5 inches (127.0 mm) Recoil: 18.75 inches (476.2 mm) Elevation • -15°/+85° Maximum elevation rate: 25°/sec: Traverse • 150° from either side of centerline Maximum traversing rate: 40°/sec: Rate of fire: As built/designed: 40 rounds per minute automatic
The M114 is a towed howitzer developed and used by the United States Army.It was first produced in 1941 as a medium artillery piece under the designation of 155 mm Howitzer M1.
The shell is painted olive drab or buff with red band and black RDX/BWX (explosive filler). SMK BE Mk. 1 : a smoke shell filled with three internal smoke canisters ejected by a Base Ejection (BE) device. CAN : a canister shot consisting of a black metal cylinder filled with 580 steel pellets (9.5 kg). [7] It has an effective range of 229 m. [8]