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What is a cannon with short or medium barrels with a low muzzle and steep angle or fire called?
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∙ 13y ago
A mortar.
Actually, it's a Howitzer. Mortars are not a form of cannon.
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Why is the muzzle of a cannon facing up?
it is resting
What is muzzle loader?
A 'muzzle loader' is any firearm (or cannon) which does not have a breech mechanism and which is 'charged' (loaded with powder and shot) from the muzzle end of the barrel.
What is a plug for a gun barrel called?
Cannon had wooden (later plastic or subber) plugs called TAMPIONS that could be placed in the muzzle to keep dirt, salt spray, birds, small animals, etc out of the cannon barrel.
What is the relationship of pistol barrel length on muzzle energy?
Shorter barrels = less MV
What is a plug placed in a gun muzzle?
Usually found with cannon, a tampion is a wooden plug used to keep foreign matter out of a cannon barrel when the cannon is not being fired.
What is leanardos 7 barrel machine gun?
It was actually an 8 barreled gun. Each barrel was a small cannon, and the gun had 8-12 barrels. It looked a bit like a leaf rake, since the barrels spread out in a fan. Each barrel was a single shot muzzle loading gun- but you could shoot 8 times before reloading.
Where can one find information about muzzle brake?
A muzzle brake is a device that is designed to redirect propellant gases in a firearm or cannon. Surefire and Brownells are two great sites for learning more about muzzle brakes.
The most famous cannon of the Civil War was the Napoleon Cannon The cannon fires a projectile with a muzzle velocity of 415 ms and momentum of 2490 kg ms What is the mass of the projectile?
6 kg
If a cannonball is shot from a longer barrel cannon rather than a shorter barrel cannon it willl have a?
Longer (effective) range. Longer barrels on a firearm allow for more complete burning of the propellant, which results in a higher muzzle velocity, which in turn results in a longer effective range, when compared to an identical weapon with a shorter barrel.
What is a horses nose called?
A horses nose is called a muzzle...x
How are automatic pistol barrels measured for length?
From the face of the slide to the muzzle. Insert a dowel near the diameter of the bore until it contacts the face of the slide, mark the dowel at the muzzle, withdraw, measure.
What is the muzzle velocity of a 20 mm cannon?
There have been more than 2 dozen DIFFERENT 20mm cannon (search 20mm Wikipedia for examples). These used different shells, and had different barrel lengths, and so have different muzzle velocities. The 20mm used by the US and Allies during WW II had a muzzle velocity of ABOUT 2800 feet per second.
