THE GERMAN SIEGE GUN.
The accuracy and power of the German siege guns have been well illustrated ■during the present year. According to the latest accounts the German batteries were at about 2,000 yards from Mont Avron, and at this distance a good rifled gun is deadly. In testing the accuracy •of a gun it is usual to fire a number of rounds at some fixed elevation. The "first graze of the shot is noted and its distance from the gun anddeflection or •deviation from the line of fire is measured. From the data thus obtained it is possibleto calculate theprobabilityof any shot striking or within a given space of a vertical target. The Krupp 4-pounders, that are at present knocking the Paris forts to pieces, are somewhat similar in •weight of metal, &c, to the 70-pounders tried by the Armstrong and Witkworth Committee. The practice carried out with those guns showed at the distance of a mile it was an even chance that any shot would fall into an area about fifty yards long by two yards broad ; at one and a half miles this area was increased to about seventy yards in length by six yards in breadth ; while at two miles it was 100 yards by eighty yards. We believe the accuracy of the Krupp guns fully equals this.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 815, 20 May 1871, Page 3
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222THE GERMAN SIEGE GUN. Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 815, 20 May 1871, Page 3
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