Meanings of rifl guns in English

With rifled guns the form of the shell altered, but its character remained.

The guns of the Malakoff were not the rifled guns of a later decade.

There remained in the arsenal a battery of new rifled guns which Frémont had purchased in Europe.

A few cargoes of good boots would have been more useful than a shipload of rifled guns.

This remark was made in reference to smooth-bore guns; the new rifled guns should be still more destructive.

What these distances are in respect to rifled guns, it does not appear to be yet definitively settled.

In 1886 the sum of $2,128,000 was appropriated for modern rifled guns.

There is a half battery of mountain train rifled guns, and many of these men are drilled as gunners.

The Federal artillery opened a furious fusilade upon the troops, coming down the road with their rifled guns and field mortars.

Ricochet is of no value from rifled guns firing elongated projectiles, as they lose all certainty of direction on the rebound.

"That the proportion of rifled guns should be one-third, and of smooth bores two-thirds."

Tyler at once orders up his two rifled guns, Ayres' Battery, and Richardson's entire Brigade-andlater, Sherman's Brigade as a reserve.

The result of these improvements was to some extent a repetition of what had taken place when rifled guns were first introduced.

The offensive power of the ship consists of seven breechloading rifled guns of 27 centimeters (10.63 in.

The cruising vessels should be gradually replaced by iron or steel ships, the monitors by modern armored vessels, and the armament by high-power rifled guns.

The prince appeared to take especial interest in the rifled guns, and complimented the British on possessing, as he called it, "so inestimable a blessing."