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The wall gun or wall piece was a type of smoothbore firearm used in the 16th through 19th centuries by defending forces to break the advance of enemy troops. Essentially, it was a scaled-up version of the army's standard infantry musket , operating under the same principles, but with a bore of up to one-inch (25.4 mm) calibre .
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The 40.6 cm SK C/34, [Note 1] sometimes known as the Adolfkanone (Adolf gun), was a German naval gun, designed in 1934 by Krupp and originally intended for the early H-class battleships. Description [ edit ]
A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armoured structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle. [ 1 ] When referring to antiquity , the term " casemate wall " means a double city wall with the space between the walls separated into chambers, which could be filled up to better withstand ...
The "true gun" appears to have emerged in late 1200s China, around 300 years after the appearance of the fire lance. [4] [5] Although the term "gun" postdates the invention of firearms, historians have applied it to the earliest firearms such as the Heilongjiang hand cannon of 1288 [17] or the vase shaped European cannon of 1326. [18]
This gave rise to the phrase en barbette, which referred to a gun placed to fire over a parapet, rather than through an embrasure, an opening in a fortification wall. While an en barbette emplacement offered wider arcs of fire, it also exposed the gun's crew to greater danger from hostile fire. [3]
The guns of the Todt Battery weighed 105.3 tons and had a total length of 19.63 m (64.4 feet). [54] [56] The 15.75 m-long (51.7-foot) barrel was progressively rifled with 90 right-handed twisted grooves. [56] Although the range of the gun elevation was -4° to 60°, its loading had to be performed horizontally, i.e. at an elevation of 0°.
In 1446, a Russian city fell to cannon fire for the first time, although its wall was not destroyed. [43] However it was not until 1475, when Ivan III established the first Russian cannon foundry in Moscow, which was the beginning of the native cannon production industry. [44] The first stone wall to be destroyed in Russia by cannon fire came ...