Sentence examples for in calibres from inspiring English sources

It was less than six inches long and was bored in calibres from.36 to.45, with.41 being the most common.

By the 16th century, gunners had adopted the custom of describing the length of a cannon's bore in calibres, that is, in multiples of the bore diameter.

The aorta is narrow in calibre.

Battleships were defined as warships armed primarily with guns over eight inches in calibre or displacing more than 10,000 tons.

As tanks acquired heavier armour during World War II, so the guns became larger, eventually reaching 128 millimetres in calibre.

Gatling weapons were made to take a variety of ammunition, up to a full inch in calibre.

World War I tanks were either "male" or "female"; that is, they were armed either with cannon up to 75 millimetres in calibre or else with machine guns.

After modifications, the Paris Guns were initially 210 mm (8.2 inches) in calibre, but successive firings eroded the inner linings of the gun barrels and their calibre was increased to about 240 mm.

In World War I, field artillery pieces up to about 90 mm (3.5 inches) in calibre were converted to antiaircraft use by mountings that enabled them to fire nearly vertically.

Since the tanks' rotating turrets had to absorb the recoil of their guns, these were usually smaller in calibre than ordinary field cannon, so that, employed as artillery, tanks were costly and only moderately effective.

A modern destroyer's armament consists of surface-to-air missiles, antisubmarine torpedoes, antiship missiles, and one or two main guns of about 100 or 130 mm (4 or 5 inches) in calibre.