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href="/wiki/History_of_cannons" title="History of cannons">History</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gunpowder_artillery_in_the_Song_dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Gunpowder artillery in the Song dynasty">Artillery in the Song dynasty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gunpowder_artillery_in_the_Middle_Ages" title="Gunpowder artillery in the Middle Ages">Artillery in the Middle Ages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naval_artillery_in_the_Age_of_Sail" title="Naval artillery in the Age of Sail">Naval artillery in the Age of Sail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Field_artillery_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Field artillery in the American Civil War">Field artillery in the US Civil War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_artillery_in_the_American_Civil_War" title="Siege artillery in the American Civil War">Siege artillery in the US Civil War</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list 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Smoothbores range from handheld <a href="/wiki/Firearms" class="mw-redirect" title="Firearms">firearms</a> to powerful <a href="/wiki/Tank_gun" title="Tank gun">tank guns</a> and large artillery <a href="/wiki/Mortar_(weapon)" title="Mortar (weapon)">mortars</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smoothbore&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/External_ballistics" title="External ballistics">External ballistics</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For pre-20th-century smoothbore artillery, see <a href="/wiki/Cannon" title="Cannon">Cannon</a>.</div> <p>Early firearms had smoothly bored barrels that fired <a href="/wiki/Projectile" title="Projectile">projectiles</a> without significant spin.<sup id="cite_ref-Fadala2006_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fadala2006-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To minimize inaccuracy-inducing tumbling during flight, their projectiles required an aerodynamically uniform shape, such as a <a href="/wiki/Sphere" title="Sphere">sphere</a>. However, surface imperfections on the projectile and/or the barrel will cause even a sphere to rotate randomly during flight, and the <a href="/wiki/Magnus_effect" title="Magnus effect">Magnus effect</a> will curve it off the intended trajectory when spinning on any axis not parallel to the direction of travel.<sup id="cite_ref-Forge2012_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forge2012-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Rifling" title="Rifling">Rifling</a> the bore surface with spiral grooves or <a href="/wiki/Polygonal_rifling" title="Polygonal rifling">polygonal valleys</a> imparts a stabilizing <a href="/wiki/Gyroscope" title="Gyroscope">gyroscopic</a> spin to a projectile that prevents tumbling in flight. Not only does this more than counter Magnus-induced drift, but it allows a longer, more streamlined round with greater <a href="/wiki/Sectional_density" title="Sectional density">sectional density</a> to be fired from the same <a href="/wiki/Caliber" title="Caliber">caliber</a> barrel, improving the <a href="/wiki/Accuracy" class="mw-redirect" title="Accuracy">accuracy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Effective_range#Weapons" title="Effective range">effective range</a> and <a href="/wiki/Terminal_ballistics" title="Terminal ballistics">hitting power</a>. </p><p>In the eighteenth century, the standard infantry arm was the smoothbore <a href="/wiki/Musket" title="Musket">musket</a>; although rifled muskets were introduced in the early 18th century and had more power and range, they did not become the norm until the middle of the 19th century, when the <a href="/wiki/Mini%C3%A9_ball" title="Minié ball">Minié ball</a> increased their rate of fire to match that of smoothbores.<sup id="cite_ref-Denny2011_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Denny2011-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Artillery" title="Artillery">Artillery</a> weapons were smoothbore until the mid-19th century, and smoothbores continued in limited use until the late 19th century. Early rifled artillery pieces were patented by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Whitworth" title="Joseph Whitworth">Joseph Whitworth</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_Armstrong,_1st_Baron_Armstrong" title="William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong">William Armstrong</a> in the United Kingdom in 1855. In the United States, rifled small arms and artillery were gradually adopted during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. However, heavy coast defense <a href="/wiki/Rodman_gun" title="Rodman gun">Rodman smoothbores</a> persisted in the US until 1900 due to the tendency of the Civil War's heavy <a href="/wiki/Parrott_rifle" title="Parrott rifle">Parrott rifles</a> to burst and lack of funding for replacement weapons. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_use">Current use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smoothbore&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Current use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some smoothbore firearms are still used. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Small_arms">Small arms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smoothbore&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Small arms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Shotgun" title="Shotgun">shotgun</a> fires multiple, round <a href="/wiki/Lead_shot" class="mw-redirect" title="Lead shot">shot</a>; firing out of a rifled barrel would impart <a href="/wiki/Centrifugal_force" title="Centrifugal force">centrifugal forces</a> that result a doughnut-shaped pattern of shot (with a high projectile <a href="/wiki/Density" title="Density">density</a> on the periphery, and a low projectile density in the interior). While this may be acceptable at close ranges (some spreader <a href="/wiki/Shotgun#Pattern_and_choke" title="Shotgun">chokes</a> are rifled to produce wide patterns at close range) this is not desirable at longer ranges, where a tight, consistent pattern is required to improve accuracy.<sup id="cite_ref-HaagHaag2011_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HaagHaag2011-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Smoothbore_flintlock_shotgun_-_DPLA_-_25f3b36a44c083f25674ea5d7f59f241_(page_1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="English or French smoothbore flintlock shotgun with an engraved iron mounting" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Smoothbore_flintlock_shotgun_-_DPLA_-_25f3b36a44c083f25674ea5d7f59f241_%28page_1%29.jpg/220px-Smoothbore_flintlock_shotgun_-_DPLA_-_25f3b36a44c083f25674ea5d7f59f241_%28page_1%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="44" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Smoothbore_flintlock_shotgun_-_DPLA_-_25f3b36a44c083f25674ea5d7f59f241_%28page_1%29.jpg/330px-Smoothbore_flintlock_shotgun_-_DPLA_-_25f3b36a44c083f25674ea5d7f59f241_%28page_1%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Smoothbore_flintlock_shotgun_-_DPLA_-_25f3b36a44c083f25674ea5d7f59f241_%28page_1%29.jpg/440px-Smoothbore_flintlock_shotgun_-_DPLA_-_25f3b36a44c083f25674ea5d7f59f241_%28page_1%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4176" data-file-height="844" /></a><figcaption>English or French smoothbore flintlock shotgun with an engraved iron mounting</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lane_%26_Reed_flintlock_smoothbore_musket,_68_caliber_-_DPLA_-_a8134bbedffd45339573b6617a2c216f_(page_1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Lane_%26_Reed_flintlock_smoothbore_musket%2C_68_caliber_-_DPLA_-_a8134bbedffd45339573b6617a2c216f_%28page_1%29.jpg/220px-Lane_%26_Reed_flintlock_smoothbore_musket%2C_68_caliber_-_DPLA_-_a8134bbedffd45339573b6617a2c216f_%28page_1%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Lane_%26_Reed_flintlock_smoothbore_musket%2C_68_caliber_-_DPLA_-_a8134bbedffd45339573b6617a2c216f_%28page_1%29.jpg/330px-Lane_%26_Reed_flintlock_smoothbore_musket%2C_68_caliber_-_DPLA_-_a8134bbedffd45339573b6617a2c216f_%28page_1%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Lane_%26_Reed_flintlock_smoothbore_musket%2C_68_caliber_-_DPLA_-_a8134bbedffd45339573b6617a2c216f_%28page_1%29.jpg/440px-Lane_%26_Reed_flintlock_smoothbore_musket%2C_68_caliber_-_DPLA_-_a8134bbedffd45339573b6617a2c216f_%28page_1%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4112" data-file-height="752" /></a><figcaption>An 1836 Lane & Reed flintlock smoothbore musket.</figcaption></figure> <p>Another smoothbore weapon in use today is the 37-mm <a href="/wiki/Riot_gun" title="Riot gun">riot gun</a>, which fires <a href="/wiki/Less-lethal" class="mw-redirect" title="Less-lethal">less-lethal</a> munitions like <a href="/wiki/Rubber_bullet" title="Rubber bullet">rubber bullets</a> and <a href="/wiki/Teargas" class="mw-redirect" title="Teargas">teargas</a> at short range at crowds, where a high degree of accuracy is not required.<sup id="cite_ref-Kolman2006_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kolman2006-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Steyr_IWS_2000" title="Steyr IWS 2000">Steyr IWS 2000</a> anti-tank rifle is smoothbore. This can help accelerate projectiles and increase ballistic effectiveness. The projectile is a 15.2 mm <a href="/wiki/Armour-piercing_fin-stabilized_discarding_sabot" title="Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot">fin-stabilized discarding-sabot</a> type with armor-piercing capability which the IWS 2000 was specifically designed to fire. It contains a dart-shaped penetrator of either <a href="/wiki/Tungsten_carbide#Ammunition" title="Tungsten carbide">tungsten carbide</a> or <a href="/wiki/Depleted_uranium" title="Depleted uranium">depleted uranium</a>, capable of piercing 40 mm of rolled homogeneous armor at a range of 1,000 m, and causing secondary fragmentation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Artillery_and_tanks">Artillery and tanks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smoothbore&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Artillery and tanks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The cannon made the transition from smoothbore firing <a href="/wiki/Round_shot" title="Round shot">cannonballs</a> to rifled firing <a href="/wiki/Shell_(projectile)" title="Shell (projectile)">shells</a> in the mid-19th century. However, to reliably penetrate the thick armor of modern armored vehicles many modern <a href="/wiki/Tank_gun" title="Tank gun">tank guns</a> have moved back to smoothbore. These fire a very long, thin <a href="/wiki/Kinetic_energy_penetrator" title="Kinetic energy penetrator">kinetic-energy projectile</a>, too long in relation to its diameter to develop the necessary spin rate through rifling. Instead, kinetic energy rounds are produced as fin-stabilized <a href="/wiki/Dart_(missile)" title="Dart (missile)">darts</a>. Not only does this reduce the time and expense of producing rifled barrels, it also reduces the need for replacement due to barrel wear.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The armour-piercing gun evolution has also shown up in small arms, particularly the now abandoned U.S. <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Combat_Rifle" title="Advanced Combat Rifle">Advanced Combat Rifle</a> (ACR) program. The ACR "rifles" used smoothbore barrels to fire single or multiple <a href="/wiki/Fl%C3%A9chette" class="mw-redirect" title="Fléchette">flechettes</a> (tiny darts), rather than bullets, per pull of the trigger, to provide long range, flat trajectory, and armor-piercing abilities. Just like kinetic-energy tank rounds, flechettes are too long and thin to be stabilized by rifling and perform best from a smoothbore barrel. The ACR program was abandoned due to reliability problems and poor <a href="/wiki/Terminal_ballistics" title="Terminal ballistics">terminal ballistics</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mortar_(weapon)" title="Mortar (weapon)">Mortar</a> barrels are typically <a href="/wiki/Muzzle-loading" class="mw-redirect" title="Muzzle-loading">muzzle-loading</a> smoothbores. Since mortars fire bombs that are dropped down the barrel and must not be a tight fit, a smooth barrel is essential. The bombs are fin-stabilized. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smoothbore&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table> <tbody><tr> <th><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grand_Turk(28).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Grand_Turk%2828%29.jpg/275px-Grand_Turk%2828%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Grand_Turk%2828%29.jpg/413px-Grand_Turk%2828%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Grand_Turk%2828%29.jpg/550px-Grand_Turk%2828%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption>A smooth-bore, cast-iron ship's cannon, from the <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=%C3%89toile_du_Roy_(frigate)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Étoile du Roy (frigate) (page does not exist)">Grand Turk</a></i>, a replica of a mid-18th century three-masted frigate</figcaption></figure> </th> <th><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Twin_Sisters,_San_Jacinto.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Twin_Sisters%2C_San_Jacinto.jpg/275px-Twin_Sisters%2C_San_Jacinto.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Twin_Sisters%2C_San_Jacinto.jpg/413px-Twin_Sisters%2C_San_Jacinto.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Twin_Sisters%2C_San_Jacinto.jpg/550px-Twin_Sisters%2C_San_Jacinto.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Replica of "<a href="/wiki/Twin_Sisters_(cannons)" title="Twin Sisters (cannons)">Twin Sisters</a>" smoothbores used in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_San_Jacinto" title="Battle of San Jacinto">Battle of San Jacinto</a> (1836)</figcaption></figure> </th> <th><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USSMonitor1862.3.ws.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/USSMonitor1862.3.ws.jpg/275px-USSMonitor1862.3.ws.jpg" decoding="async" width="275" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/USSMonitor1862.3.ws.jpg/413px-USSMonitor1862.3.ws.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/USSMonitor1862.3.ws.jpg/550px-USSMonitor1862.3.ws.jpg 2x" data-file-width="740" data-file-height="581" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/USS_Monitor" title="USS Monitor">USS <i>Monitor</i></a> (1862) with the muzzle of one of its two 11-inch smoothbore <a href="/wiki/Dahlgren_gun" title="Dahlgren gun">Dahlgren guns</a> showing</figcaption></figure> </th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Smoothbore&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rifling" title="Rifling">Rifling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buck_and_ball" title="Buck and ball">Buck and ball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cap_gun" title="Cap gun">Cap gun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caplock_mechanism" class="mw-redirect" title="Caplock mechanism">Caplock mechanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internal_ballistics" title="Internal ballistics">Internal ballistics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tubes_and_primers_for_ammunition" title="Tubes and primers for ammunition">Tubes and primers for ammunition</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mini%C3%A9_ball" title="Minié ball">Minié ball</a></li> 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