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Green Percussion Rifle
Green percussion rifle () was a Breechloader, breechloading Percussion cap, percussion rifle used in the army of the Principality of Serbia in the second half of the 19. century.Никола Гажевић, Војна енциклопедија 7, Војноиздавачки завод, Београд (1974), стр. 549-550 Design Green percussion rifle was developed by the Green brothers of England between 1859 and 1860, with the aim of converting the existing British Muzzle-loading rifle, muzzleloading rifles (mostly Pattern 1853 Enfield) into breechloaders (C.E. & J.Green's patent, No 2002 of July 12, 1862). An experimentally adapted Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle can be seen in Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. While most of the early breachloading rifles adopted after 1865 used integral Cartridge (firearms), metallic cartridges and had hinged Breechblock, breachblock (Snider–Enfield, Snider-Enfield, M1867 Russian Krnka, Krnka, Wänzl rifle, Wänzl, Springfield model 1873, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Service Rifle
A service rifle (or standard-issue rifle) is a rifle a military issues to regular infantry. In modern militaries, this is typically a versatile and rugged battle rifle, assault rifle, or carbine suitable for use in nearly all environments. Most militaries also have service pistols or sidearms to accompany their service rifles. History Firearms with rifled barrels existed long before the 19th century but did not become widely used before the end of the American Civil War. Thus, rifles in the early 19th century were for specialist marksmen only, whilst ordinary infantry were issued less accurate smoothbore muskets which had a higher rate of fire, with bore diameters as high as 19 mm (0.75 inch). Early "service rifles" of the 1840s, such as the Prussian Dreyse needle gun (1841) and the Swiss Infanteriegewehr Modell 1842, were technically still muskets. Ordnance rifles were introduced in the 1860s, with the French Chassepot (1866) and the Swiss Peabody ''Gewehr Mode ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
