Attached gas-check, the Glossary
An attached gas-check was a copper plate that was physically attached to the base of a studded projectile of rifled muzzle-loading ("RML") artillery, sealing the escape of gas between the projectile and the barrel.[1]
Table of Contents
4 relations: Copper, Gas-checks in British RML heavy guns, Muzzle-loading rifle, Rotating gas-check.
- Artillery ammunition
- Artillery of the United Kingdom
Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
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Gas-checks in British RML heavy guns
Gas-checks were attachments to ammunition that revolutionised the performance of RML heavy guns. Attached gas-check and Gas-checks in British RML heavy guns are artillery ammunition, artillery of the United Kingdom, Coastal artillery, Naval guns of the United Kingdom and Victorian-era weapons of the United Kingdom.
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Muzzle-loading rifle
A muzzle-loading rifle is a muzzle-loaded small arm or artillery piece that has a rifled barrel rather than a smoothbore.
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Rotating gas-check
A rotating gas-check (more commonly known as an automatic gas-check) was a copper plate that automatically attached itself to a specially-designed studless projectile of rifled muzzle-loading ("RML") artillery, sealing the escape of gas between the projectile and the barrel and imparting axial rotation to the projectile. Attached gas-check and rotating gas-check are artillery ammunition, artillery of the United Kingdom, Coastal artillery, Naval guns of the United Kingdom and Victorian-era weapons of the United Kingdom.
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See also
Artillery ammunition
- 105×617mmR
- 120×570mm NATO
- Area denial artillery munition
- Artillery shells
- Attached gas-check
- Base bleed
- Caliber (artillery)
- Canister shot
- Chain shot
- Driving band
- Dual-purpose improved conventional munition
- Gas-checks in British RML heavy guns
- Glossary of British ordnance terms
- Grapeshot
- High-Capacity Artillery Projectile
- High-explosive anti-tank
- High-explosive incendiary
- High-explosive squash head
- Limbers and caissons
- Linstock
- Magazine (artillery)
- Proximity fuze
- Remote Anti-Armor Mine System
- Rocket-assisted projectile
- Rotating gas-check
- Round shot
- Sabot (firearms)
- Shell (projectile)
- Spider shot
- Starshel
Artillery of the United Kingdom
- 100-ton gun
- 12-pounder Whitworth rifle
- 3-pounder Whitworth rifle
- 32-pounder gun
- 68-pounder gun
- Attached gas-check
- BL 10-pounder mountain gun
- BL 12-pounder 6 cwt gun
- BL 15-pounder gun
- BL 4.5-inch medium field gun
- BL 5.5-inch medium gun
- BL 6-inch 30 cwt howitzer
- BL 6-inch gun Mk V
- Blakely rifle
- British standard ordnance weights and measurements
- English cannon
- Field gun competition
- Gas-checks in British RML heavy guns
- Glossary of British ordnance terms
- Grasshopper cannon
- Inventory of Henry VIII
- L118 light gun
- Long Cecil
- No. 106 fuze
- Ordnance BL 12-pounder 7 cwt
- QF 12-pounder 8 cwt gun
- QF 4-inch naval gun Mk V
- Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol
- RARDEN
- RBL 12-pounder 8 cwt Armstrong gun
- RBL 20-pounder Armstrong gun
- RBL 40-pounder Armstrong gun
- RML 13-pounder 8 cwt
- RML 16-pounder 12 cwt
- RML 2.5-inch mountain gun
- RML 25-pounder 18 cwt
- RML 40-pounder gun
- RML 6.3-inch howitzer
- RML 6.6-inch howitzer
- RML 64-pounder 64 cwt gun
- RML 7-inch gun
- RML 7-pounder mountain gun
- RML 8-inch howitzer
- RML 9-pounder 8 and 6 cwt guns
- Rotating gas-check
- SBBL 32-pounder
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attached_gas-check
Also known as Attached gas check.