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following table, to be read with due reserve, gives the figures of this gun com¬ 
pared with others. 
G-un. 
German. 
French. 
80 mm . 
French. 
9 0 mm. 
Wochenblatt. 
Muzzle velocity . 
f.s. 
1450 
1526 
1417 
1870 
Remaining velocity at 5000 m 
f.s. 
623 
771 
741 
869 
Muzzle energy 
f.t. 
226 
223 
267 
402 
Energy at 5000 m ... 
f.t. 
42 
57 
73 
87 
Angle of elevation for 5000 m 
19° 30' 
13° 32' 
15° 27' 
9° 26' 
Angle of descent for 5000 m 
30° 56' 
20° 39' 
23° 4' 
15° O' 
These calculations, says the Wochenblatt , are based on the advantageous form 
(long ogive) of Trench projectiles. The figures of the German and Wochenblatt 
guns would be less favourable with the German form of shell. The author notes 
however that the gun he recommends is more powerful than the French 90 mm 
while weighing 26°/ 0 less, and throwing a projectile 14°/ 0 less. On the other hand 
he admits that practice may not entirely bear out the theory of his gun, and that 
extreme flatness of trajectory has its drawbacks as well as its advantages. 
As compared with General Wille’s gun, the Wochenblatt weapon has a calibre 
14°/ 0 larger, a projectile 15°/ 0 heavier, a muzzle velocity 29°/ 0 less, and a muzzle 
energy 41°/ 0 less. However at 8000 metres the energy of the General’s gun is 
only 7'75 foot-tons in excess of the other, while at 4000 metres the Wochenblatt 
gun leads with an excess over its rival of 3 foot-tons. While the General’s 
gun is “ in nubibus ” the Wochenblatt gun might be built to-morrow. 
Conclusion. 
Captain Moch, after carefully going over the ground again, comes to the con¬ 
clusion that the material of the French field artillery is much more powerful 
than that of the other great Powers, and that for them at any rate there is at 
present no occasion to incur a large expenditure in reconstruction or even 
experiment. Pie does not wish his country to go to sleep and disregard the 
incessant march of science, but to regard the practical point of keeping their 
equipment up to the mark of all possible improvement, as distinguished from 
that which is based on uncertain and dangerous theories. 
