'Britain's Sure Shield'
10 barrel Gatling Machine gun
12 inch barbette - non-disappearing
12 inch barbette - non-disappearing
12 Inch Disappearing
12 Inch Disappearing
12 Inch Disappearing - raised
12 Inch Disappearing - raised
15-mm aircraft cannon
15-mm aircraft cannon
17pdr gun mounted in the Archer SP
20-mm aircraft cannon
20-mm aircraft cannon
3 inch R.F. Gun
3 inch R.F. Gun
3 inch Rapid Fire Gun
3 inch Rapid Fire Gun
3.7-cm Pak
3.7-cm Pak
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36-inch searchlight and controller
36-inch searchlight and controller
4.7 inch 120 mm q.f. Gun on centre pivot pedestal mounting
4.7 inch 120 mm q.f. Gun on centre pivot pedestal mounting
4.7 inch Q.F. (Pedestal Mount.)
4.7 inch Q.F. (Pedestal Mount.)
4.7 inch. Breech closing and firing gear
4.7 inch. Breech closing and firing gear
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5 Inch R.F. gun (showing breech mechanism)
5 Inch R.F. gun (showing breech mechanism)
5 inch R.F. gun and breech mechanism
5 inch rapid fire
5 inch rapid fire
5 inch Rapid-fire gun (Pedestal Mount.)
5 inch Rapid-fire gun (Pedestal Mount.)
5-cm Pak 38
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75-mm recoilless gun
75-mm recoilless gun
8 cm Mortar Shell
A Cross bow man and Slinger
A Cross bow man and his Paviser
A ship of war, wth crossbowmen
Of this plate Valturius quaintly writes: ' When everything is cleared for navigation before the charge is made upon the enemy, it is well that those who are about to engage the foe should first practise in port, and grow accustomed to turn the tiller in calm water, to get ready the iron grapples and hooked poles, and sharpen the axes and scythes at their ends. The soldiers should learn to stand firm upon the decks and keep their footing, so that what they learn in sham fight they may not shrink from in real action.
A Slinger
A store of crossbow bolts, shafts and heads
The crossbowman is aiming at a target to the left of the picture. From a catalogue of the Arsenal of the Emperor Maximilian I. (6. 1459, d. 1519).
Allonge
An assembled mine
Ancient Screw Breech loader
Ancient Screw piece
Anelaces
Anelace (Also in French, alenas, alinlaz, analasse, anlace.) A broad knife or dagger worn at the girdle. It was a well known weapon in he thirteenth century.
Arbalest
Arbalester
Archer and Crossbowman of about 1370
The kneeling figure is fitting his belt-claw to the string of his crossbow, preparatory to bending its bow. From Manuscript No. 2813 in the National Library, Paris, reproduced by J. Quicherat in his ' History of Costume in France,' 1875.
Asiatic Bow
Balista
Balista
Ballista - Caesar covered his landing in Britain with fire from catapults and ballistas.
The ballista had horizontal arms like a bow. The arms were set in rope; a cord, fastened to the arms like a bowstring, fired arrows, darts, and stones. Like a modern field gun, the ballista shot low and directly toward the enemy.
Barrel and breech of 5-cm Pak
Block swings free to right of gun
boat-telephone
Bombard and Carriage
Bow strung
The Scythian bow strung
Bow unstrung
The Scythian bow unstrung.
Breech in normal position—closed
Breech loading Gingal (Chamber in)
Breech loading Gingal (Chamber out)
Breech loading Gingal (Chamber out)
Breech of 5-cm Pak
Breech of 7.5-cm infantry howitzer
breechloader
Under the Swedish warrior Gustavus Adolphus, artillery began to take its true position on the field of battle. Gustavus saw the need for mobility, so he divorced anything heavier than a 12-pounder from his field artillery. His famous "leatheren" gun was so light that it could be drawn and served by two men. This gun was a wrought-copper tube screwed into a chambered brass breech, bound with four iron hoops. The copper tube was covered with layers of mastic, wrapped firmly with cords, then coated with an equalizing layer of plaster. A cover of leather, boiled and varnished, completed the gun. Naturally, the piece could withstand only a small charge, but it was highly mobile.
Cart of War
Catapult
The catapult was the howitzer, or mortar, of its day and could throw a hundred-pound stone 600 yards in a high arc to strike the enemy behind his wall or batter down his defenses. "In the middle of the ropes a wooden arm rises like a chariot pole," wrote the historian Marcellinus. "At the top of the arm hangs a sling. When battle is commenced, a round stone is set in the sling. Four soldiers on each side of the engine wind the arm down until it is almost level with the ground. When the arm is set free, it springs up and hurls the stone forth from its sling." In early times the weapon was called a "scorpion," for like this dreaded insect it bore its "sting" erect.
Catapulta.