| Show W S OF FUTURE will be EIGA bloody udy vil VA the use ol of hodson foderl I 1 r eliy pid d fire gans in azazine rifles tor boata aug monitors will do icik wc rk now that there is talk of war it worth while to describe a few of die ahe deadliest implements of de cion that may be used says lie he world the carnage in ia the next war lust lie be awful regiments will lie je i aped off where in other times in n Livi duals would have been killed the krag jorgensen rine rifle now cow in use in the united states army will i ge shots a minute athin a radius of yates yards s penetrating power id six eix alme 1 i eater than that of the old win lester iester or springfield aspea speaking 1 king lushly ugh lya a bullet from this rifle ii penetrate the tha bodies of six len ien at a di distance of 1000 to 2000 ardt it will trill also penetrate thirty i dies ches of hard oak it will lill kill at i 0 0 miles with the enormously increased ngeow arms and ponder wiil til be it 11 where firing comes from reg cents may lie bo mowed down before t ey are aware of the neighbor neighborhood buo d the che enemy while 1108 qa ava alft WORM t em with the krag jorgensen le ie at a range of twenty yards ie bullet blew off the top of his ad had lie le been at a greater stance it would have passed rough on h an ingenious man of science dr of Roun iania has a to practice on ing horps bor corps ea and dead men with darn army rales ir firing at a corpse with a mann her rifle at a distance of t he produced comple perform in of the cranium with us lis rupture of the stomach and te tee lines stines with a living horse the bullet ballet assed through the head and through tho the backbone binding inding it to powder at shorter distance a bullet aarik athe head smashed it into pieces according to the doctor the buli a cause an amount of 4 9 which is sure to ha be fatal the wound is received A idler accidentally ehat in the died arid four quarts of blood re found in ill his pleural cavity all the nations of europe as ai r 1 i as th united states state are wed with new magazine rines rifles of n i arly gual equal power A maxim lapid fire gun weighing 1 I only 12 pounds poun dr hai baa a capac it ir fr for placing six bix bundled bulte s in in a minute wherever they 11 do most harm the browning rapid fire gun rj d i iathel T wabe cited states army is w 12 b of firing birin four hundred ands in ono one minute and forty ads ahe pneumatic dynamite gun at idy clook are capable of throw a shell containing pounds dynamite a distance of three i let ec laeh each gun weighs pounds ey are 50 feet long and the bore 13 inches in diameter k shell from one of these guns uld according to united states gitary officers destroy the larg afloat it would desy every artificial arlin cial hin bin s dadius of feet of the il Io OBion sion A elly city muck block ironle be wiped out by it il it i is claimed for this gun that one shell she ll 11 well placed would destroy three men of dfwar war in testing the dyn dynamite simile our gun ten dummy shots were fired fired in iti fifteen minutes from the subsequent test with the full charge of dynamite there is every reason to believe that this rate could be maintained with the explosive charge A 1000 pound shell from ove ore 0 of f the tha 12 inch guns gun at sandy hook will pAne penetrate of steel deteel stone tone fortifications ii will ill lie be useless against such soch weapons for the splintering tone will only make so m many any additional addition nl missiles A hotchkis quick birin firing gun gua is is made which weighs only twenty t v en ty boulds it is ig capable of if firing 13 30 calabra cartridges a or all t the rate of su au hour each jat of ivill okill kill six men this gun is aas pamily ily poi ablo table by one nian and several can be carried by a hore I 1 in france the gun has been fired rapidly shout rest for three hours during thi thil i l tt arst t cartridges were used us ed A 1100 pound projectile fired from a thirlean inch gun the larget in use in ia the united tates adv navy has passed through fourteen inc inches helof of sickle nickle steel plate five inches of oak oi k two plates ot of half half I 1 finch steel and then gone a mile or two beyond ohp steel used iu in this cate case is the most successful armor yet made the shell weighed 1100 lo loullie land and was propelled by pounds it dovedat mo vedat at a 9 VP of 1 asoo feet per sf cone cone and exerted a force oi of foot tuna tons it made a clenn clean r aoe of the engina of at tie is the inventors propose to 10 con a 20 inch gun which would be b able to throw pounds of explosive ten miles that would destroy le Btroy a whole city lt alone a ship the powder has hag bf bran n used with wilha rei ulta in emall I 1 the british battleship denbow benbow carries guns of tons and dij 16 inch calibre several several ships of her class claas carry guns of smaller calibre when the enormous power of the 12 inch gun is remembered the destructive qualities of this on one will be understood the italian man manof dfwar war andrea doria carries a ton armstrong gun which has proved effective at a distance of thirteen miles the haskell gun in which a succession of charges are exploded as the shot pases through the bore will throw a pound shell through twenty inches of ir iron 0 n at a distance anee 0 of fifteen ches and the crowning browning patent which enables a man to shoot shout faster thin than a watch can tick has also been added |
