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Nordenfelt gun

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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merged with the Maxim Gun Company in 1888 to form the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company after the design was superseded by the Maxim gun.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/

Facts
Classification
Caliber
25mm 1
Service Status
Retired 1
Weapon Class
Multi-barrel volley gun 1
Introduced Year
1875 1
Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category)
Machine Gun 2
Connections

Operated By

Source Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun

Used In

Balkan Wars, Wars
Source Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
Boxer Rebellion, Wars
Source Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
Source Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
Source Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
Mahdist War, Wars
Source Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
Source Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
Source Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
Source Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
  • service status
    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merged with the Maxim Gun Company in 1888 to form the Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company after the design was superseded by the Maxim gun
  • Lead and body text
    It was produced in a number of different calibres up to 25 mm (0.98 in).
  • Article text
    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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2. Wikidata: Nordenfelt gun
Wikidata Q1997907, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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