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Cost of an Ancient Warship
vincent Brannigan wrote in message ...
Keith Willshaw wrote: The napoleon was a smoothbore and its production involved much less boring and turning than a rifle The true comparison is between an iron smoothbore and a napoleon. The columbiads while admittedly larger than the napoleons were also smoothbores I agree that rifling adds to cost, but not that much. The cost of boring (drill the main center tube) and turnign (trunnions) is the same. Bronz if anything is cheaper to bore and turn than iron. Rifling costs nothing. It's knowing the pitch of the rifling that costs a fortune. Which is why smoothbores still do what they've always done on the battlefield. Which is die in numbers too large to fit in New York City, or Gettysburg. So we have are forced to open new cemetaries in Washington, D.C. Vince |
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