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Chassepot rifle
Fusil modèle 1866
Description
France's answer to the Dreyse, with greater range thanks to a rubber seal that closed the breech more tightly. It outranged its rival in 1870.
Historical use
- Franco-Prussian War
Technical data
- Year
- 1866
- Service
- 1866–1874
- Country
- France
- Maker
- Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne
- Designer
- Antoine Alphonse Chassepot
- Type
- Rifle
- Mechanism
- Bolt action
- Calibre
- 11 mm (cartucho de papel)
- Weight
- 4.1 kg
- Length
- 1,310 mm
- Rate of fire
- 8 rds/min
- Units made
- ≈ 1,000,000
Source: Wikidata Q1068098
