Explore: Rifled Cannon

the non-rifled sides of the barrel of smooth bore guns. Rifled/fin-stabilized: A combination of the above can be used, where the barrel is rifled, but the

few rifled pieces available. A number of these guns were rifled to fire the 3.67 in (93 mm) caliber James projectile. These are classified as "rifled 6-pounder

A rifled breech loader (RBL) is an artillery piece which, unlike the smoothbore cannon and rifled muzzle loader which preceded it, has rifling in the

of imparting a spin to a projectile, so a rifled barrel has a non-circular cross-section. Typically the rifled barrel contains one or more grooves that

The 10-pounder Parrott rifle, Model 1861 was a muzzle-loading rifled cannon made of wrought iron-reinforced cast iron. One of a line of Parrott rifles

Washington, D.C.: E.A. Stevens. Retrieved 12 September 2023. "History of the Rifled Cannon: Discovery of the Breech-Loading Gun and Conical Projectiles". The New

Blakely rifle or Blakely gun is a series of rifled muzzle-loading cannon designed by British army officer Captain Theophilus Alexander Blakely in the 1850s

fixed mechanical rest. The rifle scored a bull's eye at a range of 400 yards (366 m). Whitworth also designed a large rifled breech-loading gun with a

of rifled cannon and projectiles … indicates a superiority of James expanding projectiles for such cannon. The regulation 6-pounder, with a rifled bore

The 3-inch ordnance rifle, model 1861 was a wrought iron muzzleloading rifled cannon that was adopted by the United States Army in 1861 and widely used