Nordenfelt gun

From Warlike

Q1997907




The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels. It was fired by pulling a lever back and forth and ammunition was gravity fed through chutes for each barrel. It was produced in a number of different calibres up to 25 mm (0.98 in). Larger calibres were also used, but for these calibres the design simply permitted rapid manual loading rather than true automatic fire. This article covers the anti-personnel rifle-calibre gun.

10BarrelNordenfeltGunInNavalAction10BarrelNordenfeltGunInNavalAction
New Ships of the British Navy, HMS `Inflexible` - The Graphic 1881New Ships of the British Navy, HMS 'Inflexible' - The Graphic 1881
5-BarrelNordenfeltRifleCalibreGunNavalCarriage5-BarrelNordenfeltRifleCalibreGunNavalCarriage
10th Hussars Nordenfeldt Gun detachment at Paardeberg, 190010th Hussars Nordenfeldt Gun detachment at Paardeberg, 1900
Invalides-film136jpgInvalides-film136jpg
5BarrelGardnerGunRoyalNavy5BarrelGardnerGunRoyalNavy
British troop train in Egypt 1882 croppedBritish troop train in Egypt 1882 cropped
Nordenfelt 5 barrel machine gun 10th Hussars LAC 3228076Nordenfelt 5 barrel machine gun 10th Hussars LAC 3228076
0.45 inch 5-barrel Nordenfelt field carriage rear elevation0.45 inch 5-barrel Nordenfelt field carriage rear elevation
Machine gun Nordenfelt & PalmerantzMachine gun Nordenfelt & Palmerantz