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
A Japanese swivel breech-loading gun of the time of Oda Nobunaga, 16th century.
Wahrendorff breech
Armstrong gun screw breech.
The Armstrong gun was a pivotal development for modern artillery as the first practical rifled breech loader. Pictured, deployed by Japan during the Boshin War (1868–69).
EOC 12-inch L/23.5
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The EOC 12-inch L/23.5 or '39-ton breechloading gun' or '40-ton breechloading gun', was an experimental breechloading gun designed and manufactured by the Elswick Ordnance Company also known as Armstr
As depicted in March 1877