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Show 'destructive results from these en jormous charges of explosives, to. ''gether with the weighty projectile projec-tile speeding at its terrific rate through space is almost beyond conception. A noted United States ordnance engineer has calculated that the shell, on coming com-ing in contact with the resisting! target will haye a striking energy of nearly half a million font co Jonds; that is, it will have force j enough to lift half a million tons I a foot a second. The torpedo' gun is 44 feet long and weighs , , its range is the same I (as the new 12-inch army rifle, or I , about ten to twelve miles. The! , construction is similar to the' present service gun of the same ' calibre and about equal in cost j j New secret features have been ' aevisea by the inventor to safely J Jre the shell from the gun cham-j berand to keep it from explod-' ng until it meets a resisting tar- j Jt. The p-un ; ;,-,f,r.j ,- if o '"uucu for; 8 i -coast defense as well as for the i J jnavy. A single weapon of thisj class, installed on one of our' , large battleships, is capable of' , destroying a wnoe hostile fleet! I , in a short time. j' L. '- A DESTRUCTIVE'; .VEAPOX. The forthcoming and final tes - - & "u c... octnuy riooic prov- sng ground is one of the most! ""portantofrecont years. Ordinance Or-dinance engineers, both here"md abroad, are anxiously awaiting the resit of this new type of weapon, wea-pon, said to be one of the most destructive engines of war in the world. A new and interesting! feature in connection with the' ,v i . I l,,a' 13 luc ldrSe target specially constructed of the hardest and most improved Harvey-zed armor ar-mor plate. The plate? were forged -at the Bethlehem steel works j anr) arp tVi . .. ' urst ot the new pro- cess arrior plate, such as form defensive parts of our modern naval vessels. The targets represent repre-sent a section of the port-side of the battle-ship Iowa, the armor! plate being eleven and one-half inches in thickness and eight by sixteen feet in length and width. "Cy nave Deen mounted and braced at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Their total weight is about forty-six tons each. These immense barriers of steel are to pitted against the giant torpedo-piercing shell of the Gath-mmgun, Gath-mmgun, weighing i,8oo lbs j traveling at a velocity of 2,ooo feet per second. c, 1 i ""nared pounds cf gun-1 cotton, said to be the largest amount ever fired fr0m a piece of ordnance in the world, will be used for the explosive power in the shell. Three hundred and ten pounds of smokeless powder 7 be Ployed to fire the shell from, the chamber. The |