Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 |
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... practice march of 150 miles and to all the maneuvering necessary to constitute a complete field trial . 22. Comparatively early in the test it became evident that those types in which the gun was given a long recoil upon the carriage ...
... practice march of 150 miles and to all the maneuvering necessary to constitute a complete field trial . 22. Comparatively early in the test it became evident that those types in which the gun was given a long recoil upon the carriage ...
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... practice had with carriages up to the present time , including the application of a system of electrical control in connection with an improved method of sighting . 39. The electrical equipment applied to the 12 - inch disappearing ...
... practice had with carriages up to the present time , including the application of a system of electrical control in connection with an improved method of sighting . 39. The electrical equipment applied to the 12 - inch disappearing ...
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... practice , and also the two batteries of siege guns . 47. For the mountain guns a combined dummy and drill cartridge has been provided and supplied to all except two of the batteries . 48. These tubes are issued on the basis of one ...
... practice , and also the two batteries of siege guns . 47. For the mountain guns a combined dummy and drill cartridge has been provided and supplied to all except two of the batteries . 48. These tubes are issued on the basis of one ...
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... practice with the 12 - inch breech - loading mortars 2.95 - inch tubes will be used , and experiments on this subject are now in progress . 54. The annual allowance of ammunition for this subcaliber practice is as follows : For mountain ...
... practice with the 12 - inch breech - loading mortars 2.95 - inch tubes will be used , and experiments on this subject are now in progress . 54. The annual allowance of ammunition for this subcaliber practice is as follows : For mountain ...
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... practice which immediately preceded the maneuvers proper constituted a severe test of the armament . In addition to the ammunition for this target practice a special allowance for the purpose of more thoroughly testing the material was ...
... practice which immediately preceded the maneuvers proper constituted a severe test of the armament . In addition to the ammunition for this target practice a special allowance for the purpose of more thoroughly testing the material was ...
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Page 246 - Board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured, under authority of the Secretary of War, such...
Page 260 - February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the necessary traveling expenses of said member when traveling on duty as contemplated in said act ; for the payment of the necessary expenses of the Board, including a per diem allowance to each officer detailed to serve thereon, when employed on duty away from his permanent station, of two dollars and fifty cents a day ; and for the test of experimental guns, carriages...
Page 260 - To enable the board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments, and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor 243 plates, and other implements and engines of war...
Page 246 - Fortification, one hundred thousand dollars, the expenditure of which shall be made by the several bureaus of the War Department heretofore having jurisdiction of the same, or by the board itself, as the Secretary of War may direct...
Page 246 - That before any money shall be expended in the construction or test of any gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements under the supervision of the said Board, the Board shall be satisfied, after due inquiry, that the Government of the United States has a lawful right to use the inventions involved in the construction of such gun, gun carriage, ammunition, or implements, or that the construction or test is made at the request of a person either having such lawful right or authorized to convey the...
Page 260 - Board of Ordnance and Fortification : To enable the board to make all needful and proper purchases, experiments and tests to ascertain, with a view to their utilization by the Government, the most effective guns, small arms, cartridges, projectiles, fuses, explosives, torpedoes, armor plates, and other implements and engines of war, and to purchase or cause to be manufactured under authority of the Secretary of War, such guns, carriages, armor plates, and other war materials and articlesas may, in...
Page 246 - That all material purchased under the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases in limited quantities abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.
Page 3 - June 30, 1883, with such remarks and recommendations as the interests of this branch of the military service seem to require. The fiscal resources and expenditures of the Department during the year were as follows, viz : Amount in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriations on June 30...
Page 5 - Navy are each hereby authorized, in their discretion, to loan or give to soldiers' monumental associations, posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, and municipal corporations condemned ordnance, guns, and cannon balls which may not be needed in the service of either of said Departments.
Page 3 - SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the principal operations of the Ordnance Department during the...