The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . betweenarmor and gun which, for the present, the gun has won. An Ameri-can 14-inch gun will pierce 16 inches of the hardest armor made at arange of 10,000 yards, and European guns of similar type will do thesame. All armor is now made by the Krupp process, which face-hardens a steel plate to an extraordinary degree. Harveyized steel,popularly supposed
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The war in Europe, its causes and consequences; an authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, &c., &c . betweenarmor and gun which, for the present, the gun has won. An Ameri-can 14-inch gun will pierce 16 inches of the hardest armor made at arange of 10, 000 yards, and European guns of similar type will do thesame. All armor is now made by the Krupp process, which face-hardens a steel plate to an extraordinary degree. Harveyized steel, popularly supposed to be the acme of steel armor, i§ a thing of thepast. A projectile hard enough to pierce a plate of Krupp armor—so-hard, that.is to say, that it will cut glass^will shatter itself topieces like glass if fired in the form of an ordinary shell. The armor-piercing shell has a nose or cap of soft steel over its real business 98 WAR-SHIPS AND NAVAL IMPLEMENTS end. The effect of the impact of this soft nose is not clearly under-stood, but probably it is to dent and strain the plate so that the sharppoint of the body of the shell, striking an instant later, is able to boreits way through, and also, and perhaps more important, to protect and. Bow of a British Dreadnought with Launching Platform for Aeroplanes support the boring point. But the shell is not content merely withboring a hole through a ships armor. Inside the projectile is a chargeof about one hundred pounds of the most powerful explosives known, and screwed inside the base of the shell is a delayed-action fuse of thetype already described, which is so timed that it will detonate the ARMOR PLATE 99