What is the difference between cannon and gun?
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You say soda I saw pop.
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they're both the same gun! That's what the ;) is for, right? You thought we would be riddled by the different names!
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I'm not looking it up, but I believe "arms" is short for "armaments" since in use it also applies to knives and other weapons.\n\nIn the military the place where hand and small crew weapons are kept is called the armory, and the person that maintains and repairs them is the armorer.\n\nIf someone hands you a spear or sword, you are said to be "armed."\n\nGuns, in particular, are properly called "firearms."\n\nOld military chant "this is my rifle, this is my gun. One is for work........\n(Never call anything with a bore under 4" a gun!)
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The muzzle velocity of the paint ball gun is higher. \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzzle_velocity
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A chicken cannon is a cannon originally created by NASA which is used to fire chickens at aeroplane and their engines to see how they would hold up if a plane was hit by a bird during flight. NASA lent their chicken cannon to British Rail to test againts their trains, but wondered why there results came incorrect. It turned out they were using frozen chickens!
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An M4 is capable of full auto fire and has a fixed carrying handle, an M4A1 is capable of three round burst fire and is equipped with a detatchable carrying handle mounted on an accessory rail, and the M4A1 Sopmod is has the full auto feature and the M4A1 style accessory rail.
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A gun can kill some1.fire can burn some1.wind can chill.anger can rage till it tearz u apart.but da power of ur smile can heal a frozen heart
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Field artillery: Artillery other than antiaircraft artillery that is light enough to be mounted for use in the field.\n\nEquipment, supplies, ammunition, and personnel involved in the use of cannon, rocket, or surface-to-surface missile launchers. Field artillery cannons are classified according to caliber as follows. Light--120mm and less. Medium--121-160mm. Heavy--161-210mm. Very heavy--greater than 210mm. Also called FA. \n\nCoastal artillery: Coastal artillery is the branch of armed forces concerned with operating mobile anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications.\n\nCoastal artillery appeared in Europe almost as soon as the introduction of cannons during the 16th century; when a colonial power took over an overseas territory, one of their first tasks was to build a coastal fortress, both to deter rival naval powers and to subjugate the natives. During the 19th century China also built hundreds of coastal fortresses in an attempt to counter Western naval threats.\n\nCoastal artillery could be part of the Navy (as in Scandinavian countries), or part of the Army (as in Anglophone countries). In the United Kingdom, coastal artillery was the responsibility of the Royal Garrison Artillery.\n\nIn the United States, coastal artillery was established in 1794 as a branch of the Army and a series of construction programs of coastal defenses began: the "First System" in 1794, the "Second System" in 1804, the "Third System" or "Permanent System" in 1816, and the "Endicott System" in 1890 (with disappearing guns mounted in batteries). During World War II the role of the U.S. coastal artillery was shifted from anti-ship to anti-aircraft with the advent of the airplane and airpower.\n\nThe advent of jet aircraft and missiles means that coastal artillery is becoming obsolete, and as a result both fixed and mobile coastal artillery units worldwide are gradually being disbanded.
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7 guns was the British national salute due to seven being the standard number of weapons on a vessel. \n\nBecause gunpowder  was easier to keep on dry land than at sea, early rules stated that although a ship would fire only seven guns, the forts ashore would fire three shots to each one shot afloat, hence the number 21.
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The invention of gun powder and the application through firearms changed warfare from a precision instrument into a mass force. Warfare before gunpowder was made up of very highly trained professionals (archers, mounted knights, heavy infantry, seige engineers, fortification builders, etc). These were all very expensive in maintaining and training (an archer is trained from the age of about six until about fifteen before he enters his first combat, a mounted knight must maintain not only a very high level of training over decades but must maintain specialized horses and heavy armor which are prohibitively expensive, castles are defenses that are built over decades and have massive costs for maintenance sort of like stationary aircraft carriers, etc).\n\nWith gunpowder and firearms, the training of soldiers is reduced from ten years to probably three months because the firearms are used in massed formations and volley fire. The projectiles go through any metal armor available at the time and the logistical support is much less strenuous (arrows are precision instruments, lead balls are not). Castles can be made defensible against hurled rocks by making their walls thicker, but cannot be defended against metal or stone projectiles with the force of gun powder behind them.\n\nEvery place gunpowder and firearms were introduced into an existing system of warfare, the status quo was almost immediately destroyed (Europe, Japan, Africa, South America and Meso America, China - the birthplace of gunpowder, though they did not know how to use it!).
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A gas-operated firearm operates on a similar principle of a car engine. When a round is fired, expanding gases propel the bullet out of the barrel, along with most of the gas. But a small portion of the gas is siphoned off into a seperate gas tube either above or below the barrel and forces a piston backwards, which in turn pushes back the bolt carrier, ejects the spent brass, and is pushed forward again by a recoil spring, stripping a fresh round out of the magazine and pushes it into the chamber to be fired. A blowback- operated firearm is comparatively simple. When a round is fired in a blowback-operated firearm, the bolt is forced back by the recoil energy of the spent brass itself, eliminating the need for a piston. The downiside to the simpler design is increased recoil, since not all of the expanding gases in a gas-operated firearm actually exit the barrel, there is less gas pushing the muzzle up and back. the blowback system is often found on smaller weapons, such as pistols and sub-machine guns, because it is simpler and requires fewer parts, which allows a weapon to be small and lightweight.
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Bound's hubby here:\n\nThe terms "cartridge" and "round" are interchangeable. Both refer to a complete shell. A cartridge/round's components are: \ncartridge case (brass),\nbullet (the projectile),\npowder (the propellant), and\nprimer (the ignition source).
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General Electric Vulcan Machine Guns. 6,000 rounds per minute in either 7.62mm or 20mm canon rounds. Used on gun ships prinarily. They would do a nice job.
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If you have access to Usenet, post this question to rec.guns.  If there's an answer, someone there will know it, I guarantee it.
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The main difference is defense. Castles, which usually date from an earlier time period, were built mainly with the idea of keeping other people out. Although they could sometimes be very lavishly decorated, particularly the keep, which was the castle holder's private residence and the last hold out in invasion, castles were primarily military instillations. They were hugely expensive to build, and so became quite a status symbol, but they were primarily military. \n\nAs gun powder became more common in Europe (this answer refers to European castle; non-European castles are a whole other thing) it became a waste of money to build thick walls and high towers, only to have them brought down with an explosion. By that time, armies were becoming larger and borders were better defended, royalty was becoming more powerful, and were able to enforce the peace so their nobles didn't have to worry about defending against EACH OTHER. The aristocracy was also becoming more wealthy and wanted to show it. Palaces really reappeared with the Renaissance. Earlier, people who had had palaces were the most powerful--Emperors, Popes, during the Classical period, Roman Senitors and generals. Basically people who could afford some other line of defence, so they could show their wealth--and security, because wealth BOUGHT security--by opulence.
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The flintlock is a muzzle loading weapon. The powder charge and ball is rammed down the end of the barrel. The flintlock name comes a piece of flint that strikes a metal plate sending a spark into a little pan of powder to ignite the charge when the shooter pulls the trigger.
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Ok, ready for the infantry Marine's answer?  Both are a terrible experience that'll make you see how much of your body you can fit in your helmet.  Given the choice, I'd much rather be in a firefight than on the receiving end of artillery.  Arty is very very devastating and the cannons are a couple thousand meters off, so it's not like you can return fire or do much about it.  In a firefight at least you can fight back, and you'll basically know where your enemy is, so you can have something to work off of.  Both are really bad though.