se in power of our battleships due to the new supreme mark of her efficiency, then it must be ad- as used in 1898. guns, we offer a comparison of the total energy of mitted that the great development which has taken It will be noted that in spite of the great increase in fire of the "Oregon," as… … The remarkable velocities obtained by fact, at the proving ground the new projectiles in our new type of naval DEVELOPMENT OF 6-INCH GUN, 1883 TO 1901. powder proved to be so excellent that guns is due to the large powder cham- higher velocities than these have been obtained with ber, big charge,…
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