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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.
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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 RK L/22 were on all shifting carriages. [29] There were multiple sliding carriages for the 15 cm RK L/22. The Rahmenlafette c/68 der kz. 15 cm RK für eine Pforte weighed 2,005 kg and had a firing height of 855 mm. The Rahmenlafette c/68 der kz. 15 cm RK für Pfortenwechsel weighed 2,035 kg and also had a firing height of 855 mm. [30]
When in 1885, the navy changed its naming system to include the length of its guns in calibers, this became the '30.5 cm Kanone L/22'. [14] The 30.5 cm RK L/22 guns that Germany bought did not get an official label, because they were not adopted for service. If they had been, their label would probably have become 30.5 cm RK L/22 in 1885.
With regard to the punch of the steel shot of the Philadelphia 24 cm gun, it was noted that per kg of its weight, this was 110.8 kg.m as opposed to 82.0 kg.m for the 24 cm RK L/22. It was also noted that this number of 110.8 was inline with that of 'all known guns of the third construction period' of the Krupp factory, 'like the 35.5 cm MRK L ...
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 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. [2]