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Offline Soot

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44 barrell cannon revolver...thing
« on: July 23, 2008, 01:36:03 AM »
I dont even know what to think of this..

Translated from Russian:
the 3- pound (76- mm) 44- barrel [mortirnaya] battery of the system Of [a]. [K]. [Nartov]. It is prepared in 1754 in the St. Petersburg arsenal. Consists of bronze grenade launchers by the caliber of 76 mm and by the length of 23 cm each. The grenade launchers, [ukreplennye] on the horizontal wooden circle with a diameter of 185 cm, are divided into 8 sections on 5 or 6 grenade launchers in each and [soedeneny] by general powder shelf. In the [khobotovoy] part of the gun carriage is a screw hoist for the angulation of elevation. Mass propagation similar batteries did not obtain.
Many more here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bronze_field_artillery

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Re: 44 barrell cannon revolver...thing
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2008, 04:05:33 AM »
yeah they have some interesting cannon at that museum, including some that fire rectangular projo's
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Re: 44 barrell cannon revolver...thing
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2008, 09:57:56 AM »
some that fire rectangular projo's
I wasn't sure what that thing was.

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Re: 44 barrell cannon revolver...thing
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2008, 10:24:07 AM »
 Soot, I've seen the site of the Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps. in St. Petersburg, Russia before but this site has photos of pieces of artillery that weren't shown there. The mortars that were cast with an integral base, like eprouvettes but also having one trunnion in front of the base; I've never seen anything like these before, I've also never seen a bed like the one that one of these mortars is mounted on. The leveling mechanism that is attached on the end of the carriage trail is also an new one on me. There's also that gun that appears to be a swivel howitzer with a long tiller and all the fine bronze cast mouldings on some of these other art works, that can now be seen in clear enlargement. I spent quite awhile looking over these pictures, this is a great site, thanks for posting it.
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