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The Canet guns were a series of weapon systems developed by the French engineer Gustave Canet (1846-1913), who was design engineer for Schneider et Cie of Le Creusot. ==320 mm naval guns== Canet developed a 38 cal naval gun, an extremely powerful weapon for its time, specifically for the export market. The gun was first selected by the Spanish Navy in 1884 as part of a large naval expansion program which called for six new battleships. The Spanish armaments firm Hontoria obtained a manufacturing license to produce the weapon, but due to budgetary reasons, only one vessel, the , was completed. Canet was more successful in sales to the Empire of Japan, when the gun was selected by the French military advisor and naval architect Louis-Émile Bertin as the main battery of the , new type of cruiser he had designed in 1887. The usage was consistent with the Jeune Ecole philosophy, which advocated placing overwhelming firepower (strong guns, torpedoes) on relatively small ships.〔Roksund, ''Jeune Ecole'' 〕 This philosophy was of great interest to the Imperial Japanese Navy, which lacked the resources at the time to purchase modern pre-dreadnought battleships.〔 Brooke, ''Warships for Export'' page 58-60 〕 The guns supplied to Japan equipped the cruisers , , and . Each gun weighed 67 tons, and had a barrel 12 meters long, firing a 112-cm projectile with weight of 350 kg (or 449 kg high explosive) for an effective range of 8000 meters. The guns proved only marginally successful during the First Sino-Japanese War, due to a slow rate of fire, and numerous mechanical problems. The guns could not be aimed abeam, as their weight would cause the ship to roll over when fired. In combat, gunners were able to fire only around one shot per hour due to the time it took to reload. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canet guns」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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