These superb ANIMATIONS have been produced by Ordnance Society member Rob Brassington, and include detailed views of the operation of a number of guns including larger calibre weapons as well as machine guns, torpedoes and hand-guns.  These are all on Rob’s You-Tube page: https://www.youtube.com/@vbbsmyt/.

The latest animation shows the operation of the Armstrong 7-inch (110pr) Rifled Breech Loader on both the Moncrieff Disappearing carriage and also the fixed Sliding Carriage when the gun was fired.  In addition there are sections on the loading and firing of the gun and descriptions of the manufacturing of the segmented shell, together with the operation of the wooden ‘Boxer’ time fuze:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjAG2Lzxeg0

Rob’s 69 animations are in four You-Tube Playlists on his website:

Automatic Machine-Guns(24), including some hand-held, early Maxim, Vickers, Lewis, Browning, Hotchkiss and Oerlikon etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnpCT67IkeGdTZcfywLfV3fNEreR6dQFq

 

Hand-Powered Machine-Guns(11), including, Gardner, Gatling, Hotchkiss and Nordenfelt:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnpCT67IkeGcDBR0aNPqHTwaP-hvuq3W4

 

Torpedoes and Big Guns(22), including 6 torpedoes, the Armstrong 7-inch (110pr) RBL, the French 75, the 12.5-inch RML, and the Armstrong-100 ton gun:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnpCT67IkeGcz4uX5cO42ouvJNv55Hlys

 

Handguns, Rifles and me (8), including 9mm Luger, Adams Revolver and Trapdoor Springfield Rifle:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnpCT67IkeGe4MrRdrpxEgm3ouXriWZ51