Sentence examples for inch calibre from inspiring English sources

The Smith Gun consisted of a 3 inch calibre smoothbore barrel 54 inches in length, which was mounted on a carriage which looked "like a two-wheeled baby carriage" and weighed approximately 604 pounds.

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

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

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.

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.

These were initially of 37-millimetre (1.46-inch) calibre and fired special ammunition.

In 1871 the British went to new Martini-Henry breechloaders of.45-inch calibre.

The first Model 1866 was a converted.58-inch musket, the second Model 1866 was a new rifle in.50-inch calibre, and subsequent versions were built in.45-inch calibre.

The U.S. military adopted various revolvers, usually Colts or Smith & Wessons of.38-inch or.45-inch calibre, until 1911, when it switched to autoloading pistols.

Most war-built submarines had one and sometimes two guns of about three- or four-inch calibre; however, several later German submarines carried 150-millimetre guns (including the Deutschland class in military configuration).