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IN October last it was stated in the newspapers that “at the request of Lord Alcester,” and in the presence of the Lords of the Admiralty, “comparative trials of a Krupp gun and a 6-inch breechloader took place greatly to the advantage of the former.”... “The projectile used in the English weapon was 100 Ib. with a 34 Ib. charge, and that in the Krupp gun 64 Ib. with a 14 Ib. charge, the results from the latter being far in advance of the former.” If this statement be exact, the matter calls for the most careful consideration. In such a ease the superiority of the Krupp gun must have arisen either from the higher initial velocity, or from the greater steadiness imparted to the shot by the Krupp gun, or probably from both these causes combined. The comparative merits of these or any other guns could be very readily settled by well-known methods of experimenting, at the expense of little more than the cost of 5 to 10 rounds of ammunition for each gun. There is no necessity for a repetition of the Armstrong and Whitworth competition, said to have cost some 30,000l.
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BASHFORTH, F. On a Method of Estimating the Steadiness of Elongated Shot When Fired from Large Guns . Nature 29, 527–528 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/029527a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/029527a0