30.5 cm MRK L/22

30.5 cm MRK L/22
30.5 cm MRK L/22 engraving after a photograph.
Type
Place of originGermany
Service history
Used by
Production history
DesignerKrupp
Designed1876
ManufacturerKrupp
Produced1876
Specifications
Mass
Length6,700 mm[2]
Caliber305 mm[2]
Breechhorizontal sliding wedge
Muzzle velocity
  • 488 m/s as first used[3]
  • 522 m/s in the 1880s.[4]
  • Danish: 510.6 m/s[5]

The 30.5 cm Mantel Ring Kanone L/22 was a 30.5 cm 22 caliber long Krupp Mantel Ring Kanone (MRK). It was a rifled breech loader built-up gun with a Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech. It was a further development of the earlier 30.5 cm RK L/22 that Krupp had developed and exhibited at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair.

  1. ^ Bode 1881, p. 88.
  2. ^ a b Von Müller 1879, p. 288.
  3. ^ Holzner 1883, p. 427.
  4. ^ Vreeland 1889, p. 143.
  5. ^ Almanach 1896, p. 131.