The pi of artillery has of Into years Bead only be advanced by a sories of leaps, and one of the 'Taking the average of these rounds _greatet of them in at this' moment being that the Fossano, powder gave about prevent Not only han the size of great foot-toe more energy than the English, With seduction of fous tone la the preseare on tee Tee. 8 Bun. above above a certain ight, thea een suddenly trebled by the advent of the the interior of the gun. On the other band, as was formerly possible. In saying this we mon be remarked that the quantity of are far within the mark, fobuct only has the the piece supplied may be tice a9 powerfal 00.ton pieces supplied by Sir W. Armstrong's tothe I Kallen 8 and English Governments, been and are now being made tie thu nigh the Eaglish powder. The average of more. than double its, weight, cut po pieces of ywder used was considerably greater 6.inch gun shown itself superior to the 8-inch it, have double the ra, and founds quoted war 423%; that of the English Powder puly 438-4ib. Bat the amount raise seit The! sow, inch guns, a weighing not was at of site te sora tic talnedé without any undue nate on he piece. little compared with the of consumed in each round matters about 11 tons, ill be mach more 2 tenn We have not space to ge thoroughly into the extended life of the for penetration than the old thole question, bu may give det gun; nor is Only which is affect tomake the anbjeot clear; at last, to those border, The fact tha high velocities: can piece, 3.tonn aad the 36.038 fons surpassed by the new 10.in. who tand something of the art of the without undue pressure on the advance sad sed' in the power therefore, in pee of an exiraordioary It will be remembered that 64 rounds were interior ofthe gun renders farther develop 18%6 from the 100-ton, gun supplied tothe fired: at Spezia towards the end of the year artillery. Te is utiry an English doveopment, and should we of the ven for tradin it will have to vindicate our ae od 18 mand Italian Government, thatthe guaranteo'of the coakers was much exceeded, and that the gun waa than returned to them to be chambered ith thus armed may nobonly double their; artillery extremely practic etter, shipe ind—that is, to be enlarged at that part of the Power against irynelads, but sometimes gain but as the breath of bore which contains the powder charge, in wer which they had previously no cbsaoe that a still hi velocity of the shot quoted was Srued'whick could not until now be armed Posteasng, for veueels may now be well
iting rounds with round with the weight not far abort of one ton. weak' ne can now bear an armament all, while those which might have' carried Compared with auch astonishing results as powerfal pisces. high initial velocity given fat, to obtain the ballistic data The object of the these, the technical question of how best to to a projectile means more than a heavy} vand compare them with the same data for chambered gun with English powder light the charge appears unimportant. may, hower upon the adversary jit means longer effect the unchambered gun; secondly, to try the Italian Fossano powder, which was described Foret i bat len lgaited in the centre, range and better shooting of all ranges For ywder seems, 80 far, to instance, when we say that the range of the in The Timea of the Oth of January, 1877, and in igaod effects by being. ignited at is ls,,0F, wit compars its action with that of the English hil tot 2,713 ans ro Bd 6-inch,
as used for the heaviest ordnance and of the obi At the time of the first experiments at weight—is only 1,715, that of the old Hope nown as P2; thirdly, to deter bat Spezia there were-some men who, not without tively with form of cartridge and means Teuton, oaked whether atlery sienco could more than that the ge' about: 1,000 tion may be summed up as follows "The resulta with reference to the an en produos.guns which, with less ssoight yards forthe means that at any range the proper charges for the unchambered and trate I she piece ents ite projectile, would prbatber, ini or likely to strike an adv whatever th gun will be much more chambered. guns fired in each case with a the old triumph of the Roglish if because the Rinetican nmcothsbore' gush sould sob Projectile weighing 2,000Ib. the initial velo-curved, and, therefore, leas likely to pose carried a little further, so that the new city of the former was 1,424ft. per second, the mark. "We do not act tish store by of ita projectile. through the air is English weapons might throw the old ones the ranges of 6,000 garde given bythe ow the the shot 28,130 foot tone, and the powder into the shade. 'This question-has: at last th 10deg:'of elevations because the' uso been answered. in the afimative, for the rach long mangos would be only oocutoual 6-inch Armstrong gun now at Sheburyness has attained velocities of 2.000%, per second Yet, there are situations in war when accurate with 701, projectile, and 2,070f, per second shocking at long range is ofthe highest value
square inch. Thus chamber.in.no case exceeding 15 tons ce iner eights ani telescopes, For harbour and to pains should be spared to render such with Galli., projectiles, the pressure in more reliable by the use
we see that the result of chambering the gun Square loch, 'To eatiate the comparative St fence and river work the new guns' will was to add 161 feet to the velocity of the shot and about 6,700 tons to its en, while reducing the pressure on the interior of the gun by more than s ton per square inch.
70-pounders of the tervion for foes would be poe were pont by the hin power of thia'gun for ear arpove again give increased power, aad that in a we must not Ese lee oats caret too far behind. Let us take the gun which gun will now atop upwards in Kee ¢ power beszly agnel to as Wf the wow This addition to the striking power of the amahest of them can now shot is almost exactly cal fe hala inch gun. The new G.inch gives ita shot a of. ates no the with o erg of ilolb Penetralive power which is best known to the highest charge fired srtilleriata a8 that of 110 foot-tons per inch ahet's circumference, and when we Tout parks slow velocity, ad are foal uses tunchambered gon during the former consult the tables of gun: the far behind those now produced experiments was 375Ib. The highest from service we find that this power is ten tons 4631b, The resell f in each case were the chambered gun with English powder was greater than that of the 8-inch service gun at America, and we may hope that the uta ite muzzle, and one ton less than that of the fatuity of nding erviners armed 20 9.inch gun at 400 yards from the muzzle, But match merchant steamers which oan carry Uncharbored gun.. 603. 9,000 Velocity. Energy. is this power attained by some crafty mislight, far-reaching guns, such as can now be Ginmberal gus sess 1027. 96 one representation, such az making 'a heavy gun given to thew, may be another and a potent with a small bore? On the contrary, the new argument in favour of peace. All such No armour, whether intended to guard ship G-inch gun weighs 77owt—that' is, leas or fort, has ever been constructed capable of resisting the shot delivered from the cham-Shan, oer tone, wile the Sioct gan weighs nine tons, or more than dou Y00-ton gun with the charge given and the 9-inch gan weighs 12 tons, or more pr The energy of the shot is nearly four-If times that of the 35-ton gun at its course the partisans of three the weight - the G-inch. ditions at a moment when the peace of th ince any given effect—are fortunate acti
at all risks will exclaim that this gun lers world may depend on England's readiness ow come to the second question—that a breechloader, but none will be more read; of he English and Italian powders, And here than the makers to amore them that in thi
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