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Twenty-pounder rifle: an entirely bronze gun that was popular and was the only Dahlgren rifle (other than the 12-pounder boat howitzer) that continued in service after the American Civil War. Crew of six and a powder-boy, firing a 20 lb. shell in front of 2 lb. of powder it had a range of 1,960 yards at a 6.5° elevation.
John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren (November 13, 1809 – July 12, 1870) was a United States Navy officer who founded his service's Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in gunnery.
Canon obusier de 12, French 12-pounder cannon-howitzer of 1853. Known in the US as "12 pounder Napoleon" M1841 12-pounder howitzer, American howitzer having the same caliber (4.62 inches) as a 12-pounder field gun; One of the Dahlgren guns of the American Civil War; Ordnance BL 12 pounder 7 cwt, British field gun, 1885–1892
Wiard also designed a rifled steel version of the Dahlgren boat howitzer (a 12-pounder (5.44 kg) weapon with a 3.4 in (86 mm) bore), among other gun types. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Further, Wiard unsuccessfully attempted to develop a 15 in (381 mm) rifled gun for the US Navy and proposed a 20 in (510 mm) gun.
A 24-pounder is a gun firing a shot of 24 pounds weight, a mass of 11 kg. Examples include: 24-pounder long gun, including various designs of artillery used during the Age of Sail; M1841 24-pounder howitzer, used by the United States Army from 1841 to 1865; A size of Dahlgren gun used during the American Civil War
The field gun featured: a D-74 122 mm howitzer, which the Soviet Union developed in the late 1940s. Yet its age wasn't the main attraction. Russia has, after all, been regularly deploying Cold War ...
A display at the U.S. Navy Dahlgren Naval Weapons Facility (now Dahlgren Naval Surface Warfare Center) in Virginia, showing the 18 inch/47 (457 mm) Mark "A" (far left) and a 16 inch/50 (406mm) Mark 7 gun, as used on the Iowa-class, is just to its right. Both of these weapons fired projectiles heavier than the Volkswagen Beetle next to it.
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