WIRE GUNS
1882; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 27; Issue: 679 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1038/027011b0
ISSN1476-4687
Autores Tópico(s)Gun Ownership and Violence Research
ResumoIT will no doubt surprise many of our readers to be told that after nearly a quarter of a century of experiment and investigation, and the expenditure of millions upon millions of money, the nation is so imperfectly armed that we are again entering upon a period of reconstruction of our heavy ordnance, the outcome of which it is not easy to foresee. From the old cast-iron 68 pounder, weighing from 4 to 5 tons, we have arrived at the 80 ton gun of Woolwich, but only to learn that such guns are already obsolete, and must give place to others of a new type developing greater power with less weight. Till very recently we have been constantly told by the highest authorities in this department of the Government that the English guns were the finest, the strongest, and the most powerful in the world, and it is no doubt somewhat startling to learn that all this has been a delusion.
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