THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
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The Russian gun fires with a high trajectory, the Indian with a low 
trajectory. It appears to me that we have the best of it, on the 
whole. 
Table of the peincipal Dimensions and Weights of vaeious Hoese Aetilleey 
Guns and theie Equipment.* 
Prussian. 
English. 
French. 
Austrian. 
Russian. 
: Indian. 
Weight of gun . 
5-4 
6-5 
6*5 
5*2 
6*4 
8*1 
Calibre . 
3-1 
3 
3*4 
3*17 
3*4 
3 
Weight of common shell (s) . 
.lbs. 
9 
8*5 
8*9 
8 
12*5 
9 
Weight of charge of gun (p) ... 
1-1 
1*125 
1*21 
1*1 
1*35 
1*75 
■Rnfir* — .-. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
s 
8-1 
IT 
7*4 
7*3 
9*3 
5*1 
Initial velocity .ft. per sec. 
1184 
1058 
1066 
1093 
? 
1381 
Weight behind gun team . 
30-5 
32 
25*8 
23*6 
24*4 
( 33*5 
1 34*1 
Weight per horse in gun team .. 
5-1 
5*2 
6*4 
5*9 
6*1 
5*7 
No. of rounds in limber and with gun 
49 
34 
44 
39 
18 
( 34 
740 
No. of rounds per gun in limber and 7 
157 
124 
156 
156 
130 ( 
124 
wagon . 
148 
Diameter of wheels . 
.ft. 
C4) 
5 
4*7 
C3*5 1 
1 4*4 ) 
4 
5 
CoMPAEATIYE PKACTICE TABLE OF HOESE AETILLEEY ElELD GUNS. 
Yards 
range. 
Elevation. 
4-pr. French . 
2000 
O / 
6 47 
a Austrian . 
z, 
6 47 
a Prussian . 
II 
6 24 
9-pr. English breech-loader. 
II 
6 1 
12-pr. n n . 
II 
5 20 
9-pr. Indian muzzle-loader. 
II 
4 22 
11. I am aware, however, that some officers do not appreciate the 
value of a great velocity, and consequently of a flat trajectory, as highly 
as I do; indeed, I am told it has been seriously proposed to adopt a 
gun, ordinarily carried on a mule's back, the 7-pr. of 146 lbs., as the 
armament of the horse artillery, in preference to this 9-pr. of 8 cwt. 
This proposition needs only to be stated to an artilleryman to carry its 
condemnation on the face of it. 
But if my hearers of the artillery will pardon my entering into a few 
elementary questions of their craft, I will endeavour to put this matter 
as clearly as I can to those who have not turned their attention to the 
subject. 
The horse artillery gun is chiefly intended for firing at troops with 
projectiles containing either bullets or segments, which are released 
* A more detailed table will be found as an Appendix, 
