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* Rifled Breech Loader, a type of artillery

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Rifled guns have been kept in use by some nations ( the UK and India, for example ) because they are able to fire other ammunition such as HESH rounds with greater accuracy.
Rifled tank guns have fallen out of favor in modern battle tanks however, the British Army has persisted with a rifled cannon on their Challenger 1 and Challenger 2 battle tanks partly to preserve the general purpose capability of HESH ammunition.

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* Friedrich Engels, “ On Rifled Cannon ," articles from the New York Tribune, April, May and June, 1860, reprinted in Military Affairs 21, no.
The Elswick Ordnance Company ( sometimes referred to as Elswick Ordnance Works, but usually as " EOC ") was originally created in 1859 to separate William Armstrong's armaments business from his other business interests, to avoid a conflict of interest as Armstrong was then Engineer of Rifled Ordnance for the War Office and the company's main customer was the British Government.
It originally contained 36 Rifled Muzzle Loaders with calibres from 9in to 12in.

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British 64 Pounder Rifled Muzzle-Loaded ( RML ) Gun on a Moncrieff disappearing mount, at Scaur Hill Fort, Bermuda.
* Rifled / Fin-Stabilized A combination of the above can be used, where the barrel is rifled, but the projectile also has deployable fins for stabilization, guidance or gliding.
Armstrong became employed as Engineer of Rifled Ordnance to the War Department.
Rifled flintlocks did see some military use by sharpshooters, skirmishers, and other support units ; but most rifled flintlocks were used for hunting.
Rifled muskets of the mid-19th century, like the Springfield Model 1861, were significantly more accurate, with the ability to hit a man sized target at a distance of or more.
Following the Second Period, eleven Armstrong 64-pounder Rifled Breech Loaders were installed on traversing carriages.
Only a decade later in 1872, three of the emplacements were altered to take enormous 12 ton RML ( Rifled Muzzle Loading ) guns.
As part of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, work started on the main part of the fort consisting of 23 granite casemates, originally housing 22 9-inch Rifled Muzzle Loaders ( RMLs ), one 10-inch RML gun and 180 men.
The Rifled cannon proved its superiority to brickwork fortifications but not to the endurance of the Confederate artillerymen who continued to man Fort Moultrie.
guns in the caponiers and three Rifled Howitzers.
gun and two 6. 3-inch Rifled Muzzle Loading howitzers.
With thirty-six guns, including the new James Rifled Cannon and Parrott rifles, Union troops began the long sustained bombardment of Fort Pulaski.
Rifled cannon made vertical-walled masonry fortifications obsolete during the Civil War, and in the last decades of the nineteenth century great advances in military technology brought a whole new generation of long-range guns mounted in inconspicuous emplacements.
: For the M68 105 mm Rifled Tank Gun, see Royal Ordnance L7.
Rifled barrels for shotguns are an unusual legal issue in the United States of America.
Rifled muskets increased the effective range to about 200 or 300 yards, and a rifled musket could often hit a man-sized target up to 500 yards away.
Rifled muskets typically used percussion lock systems, with some exceptions like the Springfield Model 1855 which used the Maynard tape primer system.
Rifled muskets, like smooth bore muskets, were always muzzle loaded.

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Traditionally, rates of pay for retired military personnel have been proportionate to current rates of pay for active personnel.
Traditionally groups within the family have been delimited largely based on fruit morphology, and the results from this have not been congruent with the more recent molecular phylogenetic analyses.
Traditionally, steel-string guitars have been made of a combination of various " tonewoods ", or woods that have pleasing resonant qualities when used in instrument-making.
Traditionally, statistics such as batting average ( the number of hits divided by the number of at bats ) and earned run average ( the average number of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings ) have dominated attention in the statistical world of baseball.
Traditionally, the best leadoff hitters in the game have high on-base percentages.
Traditionally, these trees have been built using morphological methods, such as appearance, embryology, etc.
Traditionally, composting was to pile organic materials until the next planting season, at which time the materials would have decayed enough to be ready for use in the soil.
Traditionally though, most celibate persons have been religious and monastics ( monks resp.
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Traditionally most computer music programs have tended toward the old write / compile / run model which evolved when computers were much less powerful.
Traditionally these have been interpreted as examples of government hostility toward commerce, but more recent studies, which use source material such as magistrate diaries and genealogical records, suggest that merchants in fact had a powerful impact on government policies and that the division between the world of the merchant and the world of the official was far more porous than traditionally believed.
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Traditionally, homosexuals have been considered to have chosen to engage in homosexual actions in order to spite God ( le-hach ' is ) or to be perverse.

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