Armstrong gun
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An Armstrong gun was a type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy artillery piece designed by Sir William Armstrong. It was first manufactured in England starting in 1855 by the Elswick Ordnance Co
Armstrong gun deployed by Japan during the Boshin War (1868–69).
Screw breech mechanism of the 7-inch Armstrong gun
Powder cartridge with lubricator
Two RBL 40-pounder Armstrong guns displayed at the St. George's Foundation's UNESCO World Heritage Centre, St. George's Town, Bermuda. Originally used as mobile guns for defending areas of Bermuda's South Shore without fixed coastal artillery, they were soon replaced and repurposed as part of a saluting battery at Fort Victoria before being set into a wharf as bollards.
Rifled breech loader
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A rifled breech loader is an artillery piece which, unlike the smoothbore cannon and rifled muzzle loader which preceded it, has rifling in the barrel and is loaded from the breech at the rear of the
Armstrong gun
…An Armstrong gun was a type of rifled breech-loading field and heavy artillery piece designed by Sir William Armstrong. It was first manufactured in England starting in 1855 by the Elswick Ordnance Company…
A Japanese swivel breech-loading gun of the time of Oda Nobunaga, 16th century.
Wahrendorff breech