How To Use breech-loading In A Sentence
- The French had a good breech-loading rifle, the chassepot, also the mitrailleuse, a primitive machine gun, but their muzzle-loading artillery was outclassed by Prussian breech-loaders.
- This coincided with rapid improvement in firearms, with breech-loading rifles replacing the musket.
- Recoil systems and cartridge ammunition increased rates of fire of breech-loading weapons.
- The infantry of both armies in the Civil War for the first time used muzzle-loading rifled muskets, while cavalry with breech-loading carbines fought dismounted.
- For the next 50 years breech-loading muskets and rifles were made in England as sporting guns.
- Because of its greater technological complexity and problems of scale, it took longer for the advantages of rifling, then breech-loading, and then rapid firing to be applied to artillery.
- The breech-loading cannons were set to fire in only one fixed direction and were of little use.
- She was the ultimate expression of British naval supremacy, more than 400 feet long and armed with 26 muzzle-loading 68 pounders and 10 breech-loading 110 pounders.
- Steel warships propelled by steam and equipped with breech-loading weapons had become standard.
