A Sinder-Enfield, breech-loading rifle, which was converted from the older the Pattern 1853 rifle-muskets. At first, the British developed a stopgap by modifying the actions of existing ...

The successful firing was the first in a series of tests being conducted to confirm the reliability of the NLOS Mortar's unique breech-loading system and its other advanced armament technologies ...

From the mid- to late-19th century, many armies around the globe went through similar processes of upgrading from muzzle-loading to breech-loading service rifles. By the 1860s, the muzzleloading ...

Denel Land Systems is displaying the GI-30 30mm CamGun electro-mechanical cannon and the M10 60mm breech-loading mortar internationally for the first time at the DSIE exhibition in London. The GI-30 ...

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That’s because there can't be anything between the mortar barrel and the open sky when it fires its ammunition. Breech-loading also offered more flexibility in firing that is related to how the ...

Mr. Eastman's six breech-loading cannon, recently imported from ... superintendent of government gun factories at Woolwich, and having been twice fired with a double charge of blank ...

There have been on trial, during the past week, at Camp Douglas, two recently-invented breach-loading guns. The "Hartley Gun," as it is called, was fired with great rapidity -- fifteen times a ...

This early 16th century cast iron, breech-loading cannon is the only one of its kind in Wales. It is designed to be carried on a ship of war and fired through a gun port on the side of the hull.