The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun with up to twelve barrels, fired by pulling a lever back and forth while ammunition fed by gravity through chutes to each barrel; smaller calibers up to about .45 inches allowed genuinely rapid manual fire, while larger calibers up to 25mm allowed only rapid manual loading. Its firing mechanism was designed by the Swedish engineer Helge Palmcrantz and it was produced and marketed from London from 1873 by the Swedish industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt, whose company merged with the Maxim Gun Company in 1888 to form the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company after the design was superseded by the Maxim gun. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Service Status Weapon ClassMulti-barrel volley gun 1 Introduced Year Weapon Class
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Its firing mechanism was designed by the Swedish engineer Helge Palmcrantz and it was produced and marketed from London from 1873 by the Swedish industrialist Thorsten Nordenfelt, whose company merged with the Maxim Gun Company in 1888 to form the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company after the design was superseded by the Maxim gun
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It was produced in a number of different calibres up to 25 mm (0.98 in).
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Sweden: 20 ten barrel 1875 models adopted.
Caliber attribute (nordenfelt-gun)
The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun with up to twelve barrels, fired by pulling a lever back and forth while ammunition fed by gravity through chutes to each barrel; smaller calibers up to about .45 inches allowed genuinely rapid manual fire, while larger calibers up to 25mm allowed only rapid manual loading.
Lead section
The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels. It was fired by pulling a lever back and forth and ammunition was gravity fed through chutes for each barrel.
Used In: Balkan Wars, Users section
Kingdom of Montenegro: Seven were in use at the time of the Balkan Wars.
Used In: War of the Pacific, Conflicts list
War of The Pacific
Used In: Mahdist War, Conflicts list
Mahdist Wars
Used In: Philippine-American War, Conflicts list
Philippine-American War
Used In: First Matabele War, Conflicts list
First Matabele War
Used In: First Sino-Japanese War, Conflicts list
First Sino-Japanese War
Used In: Portuguese Conquest of the Gaza Empire, Conflicts list
Portuguese conquest of the Gaza Empire
Used In: Boxer Rebellion, Conflicts list
Boxer Rebellion
Operated By: Royal Navy, Wikipedia article text
The weapon was adopted by the British Royal Navy, as an addition to their Gatling and Gardner guns.
In Group: Multi-Barrel and Rotary Machine Guns, Lead sentence
The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels.
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