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While modern firearms are generally referred to by the name of the cartridge the gun is chambered for, they are still categorized together based on bore diameter. [citation needed] For example, a firearm might be described as a "30 caliber rifle", which could accommodate any of a wide range of cartridges using a roughly 0.30 inches (7.6 mm) projectile; or as a "22 rimfire", referring to any ...
The British standard ordnance weights and measurements for the artillery were established by the Master General of Ordnance in 1764, and these were not altered until 1919, [citation needed] when the metric system was additionally introduced.
In artillery, caliber or calibre [nb 1] is the internal diameter of a gun barrel, or, by extension, a relative measure of the barrel length. Rifled barrels [ edit ]
The gauge (in American English or more commonly referred to as bore in British English) of a firearm is a unit of measurement used to express the inner diameter (bore diameter) and other necessary parameters to define in general a smoothbore barrel (compare to caliber, which defines a barrel with rifling and its cartridge).
12 cm tornautomatpjäs m/70 Sweden: Cold War 120: 12 cm mobile coastal artillery gun m/80 Sweden: Cold War 120: 120mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892 Russian Empire: World War I - World War II 120: 120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905 Russian Empire: World War I - World War II 120: 12 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun Japan: World War II 120: 12 cm 11th Year ...
Common rifle cartridges, from the largest .50 BMG to the smallest .22 Long Rifle with a $1 United States dollar bill in the background as a reference point.. This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item ... 30 mm caliber; 35x228mm (STANAG 4516), 35mm caliber; Tank guns 105×617mmR (STANAG 4458) 120× ...
13 cm = 1.3 dm – body length of a Goliath birdeater; 15 cm = 1.5 dm – approximate size of largest beetle species; 19 cm = 1.9 dm – length of a banana; 26.3 cm = 2.6 dm – length of average male human foot; 29.98 cm = 2.998 dm – distance light in vacuum travels in one nanosecond; 30 cm = 3.0 dm – maximum leg length of a Goliath birdeater