| 词条 | Chain shot |
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In artillery, chain shot is a type of cannon projectile formed of two sub-calibre balls, or half-balls, chained together. Bar shot is similar, but joined by a solid bar. They were used in the age of sailing ships and black powder cannon to shoot masts, or to cut the shrouds and any other rigging of a target ship.[1] When fired, after leaving the muzzle, the shot's components tumble in the air, and the connecting chain fully extends. In past use, as much as six feet of chain would sweep through the target. However, the tumbling made both bar and chain shot less accurate, so they were used at shorter ranges.[2] Chain shot was sometimes used on land as an anti-personnel load. It was used by the defenders of Magdeburg in May 1631 as an anti-personnel load, which, according to counselor Otto von Guericke, was one reason for the extreme violence of the victorious attackers.[3] It was also used against Parliamentarians in the first English Civil War,[4] against the 76th Highlanders in India in 1803,[5] by the French against the Dutch at the Battle of Waterloo,[6] and by Union troops at the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.[7] The military usefulness of chain shot died out as wooden sail-powered ships were replaced with armored steam ships—first among navies, and then among commercial fleets—which do not have rigging to serve as proper targets for chain-shot. Additionally, the conversion of naval armament from smoothbore, muzzle loaded, black powder cannon to rifled, breech-loaded guns further slowed the production of new chain shot ammunition; the chain would damage barrels (degrading maximum range, and further degrading effective range by degrading accuracy), and the new breech loading guns and their ammunition were meant to be effective against armored vessels as well as wooden sailing vessels. In modern times, the effect is replicated in shotguns with the use of bolo shells, a pair of slugs connected by a strong wire. They are banned in several jurisdictions, including Florida[8] and Illinois.[9] In popular cultureA battle between the forces of King Charles VIII of France and the army of the Papal States in the television show The Borgias features cannon using chain-shot. Set in 1812, Patrick O'Brian's popular Aubrey–Maturin series, book 6, The Fortune of War, mentions that the Americans are using bar shot as characters plan for their encounter with USS Constitution and later during the actual naval combat. In the 2003 Disney feature film The Curse of the Black Pearl, chain-shot is used by the crew of Black Pearl to disable the mast of HMS Interceptor. It is also featured in the sequel At World's End to free the mast of Black Pearl when it gets tangled with the mast of Flying Dutchman. References1. ^{{1728}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chain-Shot}}2. ^{{cite episode|title=Pirate Tech|series=Modern Marvels|airdate=2006-07-09}} 3. ^Otto von Guericke: Geschichte der Belagerung, Eroberung und Zerstoerung von Magdeburg, 2. Auflage 1882, S. 16ff. 4. ^Anne Sacheverell, Daughters from London, 1643 5. ^John Clark Marshman: Abridgment of the History of India, 1873, p. 268 6. ^P. Wakker, Aanteekeningen van een Veteraan dato 16 Augustus 1815 (etc.), 1863, p. 14 7. ^Robert Tomes, John Laird Wilson, Battles of America by Sea and Land, 1878, p 524 8. ^Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine 9. ^Public Act 92-0423 of the 92nd General Assembly {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313053043/http://ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/pubact92/acts/92-0423.html |date=March 13, 2007 }} 4 : Artillery ammunition|Projectiles|Balls|Chains |
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