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Rural King Supply is a farm supply store based in Mattoon, Illinois, United States.Founded in 1960, as of 2024 the chain has 135 stores in the U.S. states of Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Alabama. [1]
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.
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 .
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 Krupp guns used prismatic gun powder, the British gun used Pebble-powder. The Krupp 17 cm gun fired with a charge of 11.8 kg, the British 7-inch with 13.6 kg. The results showed that the Krupp 17 cm clearly outclassed the British 7-inch gun. [26] In Japan, the ironclad FusÅ had four 24 cm guns and two 17 cm RK L/25, used as chase guns. [27]
The tests with smaller caliber long guns, the 15 cm MRK L/28, the 24 cm L25/5, the 35.5 cm MRK L/25 and the 40 cm MRK L/25 led Krupp to design a whole new series of longer 30 and 35 caliber long guns, the so-called C/80 system. It meant that the characteristics of 24 cm guns of 30 and 35 caliber length had been calculated.
The other 30.5 cm gun was the showpiece of the Krupp pavilion on the 1 May to 31 October 1873 Vienna World's Fair. [5] The 30.5 cm L/22 gun got extensive media coverage by its appearance on the Vienna fair. Multiple military delegations visited the fair and made reports about the gun.
The 21 cm RK L/22 was a 21 cm caliber Krupp gun that was purposefully designed to use a combination of prismatic gunpowder, a built-up gun barrel, and the Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech with broadwell ring.