RML 6.3 inch Common shell Mk I diagram.jpg

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Rotation is applied by the copper gas-check expanding on firing and engaging with the 20 rifling grooves of the gun barrel.

Date

circa 1886

Source

"Treatise on Ammunition" 1887, page 159

Author

War Office, UK

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