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A 24 cm L/22 gun was exhibited by Krupp at the 1876 Centennial Exposition Philadelphia. It was also called a 24 cm gun and had the same absolute length as well as a relative length of L/22, but in fact this was a prototype gun that had a caliber of 240 mm and was configured for using an increased charge and projectiles with copper driving bands.
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 21 cm RK L/19 was the later name of a rifled breech loader gun of the Prussian Navy. This gun started with a massive gun barrel, cast from steel in one piece. In 1868 a built-up gun barrel version was tested in Prussia and found to be much more powerful. Many of the massive guns were then changed to built-up guns.
When rifles in circulation return to the FDF armories they have holes drilled to them for attaching a rail for optical sights, adding VV to the end of the name. RK 62 TP RK 62 TP – a folding stock version, from the later batches of the RK 62, with a Galil-type buttstock attaching system and hinge. The hinge of the folding stock makes the ...
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 15 cm RK L/22 gun was used as main armament on the smaller vessels of the German Navy. I.e. wooden screw corvettes, avisos and gunboats. At the time that the 15 cm RK L/22 gun was made, guns of this size could still be repurposed with relative ease.
stereogram of Krupp guns displayed at the Vienna exhibition in 1873. The 21 cm RK L/22 is third from the right On a coastal carriage. For use in armored gun turrets, Gruson built the 21 cm Minimalscharten Lafette c/72. This served to bring the horizontal and vertical turning point of the gun to the gun port, instead of it being near the ...
The RK 95 TP (from Finnish Rynnäkkökivääri 95 taittoperä, 'Assault Rifle 95 folding stock'), officially 7.62 RK 95 TP and commercially known as the M95, is a 7.62×39mm Finnish assault rifle adopted in relatively small numbers by the Finnish Defence Forces in the 1990s.