PRECIS 
AND 
AM 356 YAN. INT TS) IG aX, 40) ILO) IN 
THE FIELD GUN OF THE FUTURE, 
AS PROPOSED BY 
GENERAL WILLE AND HIS CRITICS. 
TRANSLATED BY 
CAPTAIN H. A. BETHELL, R.A. 
October 1898. 
(Continued from p. 8, No, 8, Vol. XXIT.). 
PART III. 
General Wille remarks on the table given below: — 
(1.) Mr Bender’s gun with its low velocity is a very weak shooting affair, and 
its practically impossible shrapnel of 263 bs. puts it out of count. 
(2.). This is only a H.A. gun. As such it is far superior to the English 
12-pr. 
(8.) Colonel Langlois’ is a quick-firing gun and as such useless and impossible, 
Its ballistics are very poor. 
(4.) No comment on Uolonel de Sotomayor’s gun. 
(5.) Mr. X.’s gun is an enfeebled edition of Captain Moch’s. 
(6.) Mr. C.’s gun is intended to be a quick-firing gun with shield mount- 
ing. In his pamphlet he gives no idea of how this is to be carried out, and how 
he proposes with an energy of recoil amounting to 8°8 foot tons! to prevent his 
carriage from running back—especially as he objects to hydraulic buffers! His 
gun is to be of steel or aluminium bronze, his shield of chrome steel and aluminium 
and his metallic cartridges of the same metal. 
Mr. C. is not apparently aware that aluminium, like its alloys, rapidly loses 
strength with increase of temperature. It is quite unsuitable for gun construction 
and has so far proved a complete failure as cartridge metal. 
It should be noted that Mr. C.’s “ battery” consists, in addition to 6 guns, of 
two mortars and 6 machine guns. Comment is needless. 
(7.) Captain Moch’s designs are both powerful guns, far in advance of anything 
now existing. The 18} 1b. shell of the first gun is too heavy and the second de- 
sign is preferred. 
The annexed table of field guns proposed as rivals to General Wille’s designs 
will be of interest. 
1C.f. 12-pr. 5°07 foot tons by same formula. 
OF VOL XXITy. 65a 
