Wire wound gun machinery

Wire wound gun machinery

Watertown Arsenal (Mass.).; Army Materials Research Office.; Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center (U.S.).; Materials Technology Laboratory.; U.S. Army Research Laboratory.; Wire wound gun machinery,; Burke, Edward.;

Wire wound gun machinery designed by Edward Burke. The makers of the wire-wound cannon claim for it a positive soundness of material impossible to secure in a built-up gun, and that it has greater firmness of material and superior tangential strength. But with this come certain disadvantages, a notable one being a lack of rigidity in the longitudinal direction, this tending to increase the "droop" of the muzzle and give a certain "whip" to the piece when fired that reduces accuracy.

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