THE NORDENFELDT GUN.
Further tests made with the Nordenfeldt gun by the British naval authorities exhibit the wonderful capacity of that weapon. It seems that a hardened eteel bullet of seven and onefourth ounces weight, at a range of 300 yards, penetrated, at an angle of fortyfive degrees, the side and boiler of a tm-pedo boat, as represented by a onesixteenth inch steel plate eighteen inches in front of a second steel plate one-half inch thick* On being fired directly end on at a torpedo boat, the bullet penetrated the steel bow plate, onegixteenth inch thick, at an angle of ten degrees, and four bulkheads at right angles—and, striking the boiler, the bullet then indented the half-inch steel plate representing it, to a depth of half •an inch ; subsequently, under similar conditions, the plate was perforated altogether. Tin accuracy is also remarkable, the mean deviation at 300 yards of ten rounds fired slowly being 5.6 inches ; and in respect to rapidity, the trials ashore marked 108 shots in the space of 80 seconds.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1209, 26 July 1884, Page 3
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173THE NORDENFELDT GUN. Temuka Leader, Issue 1209, 26 July 1884, Page 3
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