Harbor Defenses DescribedNEWPORT, R.I., Nov. 13. -- The work on the mortar battery at Fort Adams and at Dutch Island, where two twelve-inch breech-loading rifles are to be placed, has been so well ...

Within the last few days the work of supplying all the field batteries of the United States Army with the new 3.2 inch breech-loading rifle has been completed by the War Department.

Breech-loading also offered more flexibility in firing that is related to how the system is automated, maneuvered and controlled. “Once you're breech-loaded, you no longer have to shoot directly ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Developers are touting the breech-loading system on the Non-Line-of-Sight Mortar (NLOS-M) for U.S. Army Future Combat Systems (FCS) manned ground vehicles (MGVs) as one of ...

The Secretary of War has decided that the report of the Board for the trial of breech-loading rifles at West Point is not conclusive in favor of any one of them as a standard government gun ...

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 ...