The Scientific American War book the Mechanism And Technique of Warfare
The Scientific American War book the Mechanism And Technique of Warfare
Albert a Albert Allis Hopkins
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The ballistician in military walks of life cares not whether the bullet finally winds up 4, 200 yards or 4, 200 ** &£ £ I Fifteen hundred yards is extreme range for the military rifle in actual use, but very un- common. A thousand yards sometimes sees the ball open, but often the fighting hardly begins at this distance. The thing for which all ballisticians strive is a rifle that shoots very flat over fighting ranges which lie under 1, 000 yards, to obvi- THE BULLETS OF THE NATIONS 151 ate sigh...t changes, and to minimize the cost of errors in range judgment. After that the range of the bullet is immaterial; infantry fire is not even remotely effective — worth the ammunition — at ranges half as far as the rifle would carry. Therefore, the surest way to prove that you don't know the first prin- ciples of the military rifle is to begin to talk about its range. The two favorite questions of the proletariat — "How many does she hold? How far will she shoot?" The man that knows what is needed asks, "How fast can the magazine be recharged?
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