The ammunition used was a 13x40 lead bullet in a cardboard and brass centerfire cartridge longer than a human index (the most powerful rifle cartridge in existence at the time), showing the artillery mindset the gun was designed in considering the range it gave the weapon (3400m).Īs opposed to the 200 rounds of the Gatling gun, the Mitrailleuse could indeed only fire 100 rounds a minute. Working the Reffye was very similar to how you would a Montigny instead of levers, the gun used cranks to open the breech and load a speed-loaderesque magazine into the gun, and then fire its 25 rifled barrels. Some people say it was inspired by an American volley gun we know little about, beside that it sucked, but I have yet to see proof of that. The Reffye Mitrailleuse of 1866 was based on the Belgian Montigny Mitrailleuse of 1863, based on the drawings of Toussaint-Henry-Joseph Fafchamps. It remained in service alongside Gatling guns made in Puteaux until 1897-1900 when it is slowly replaced by the first Hotchkiss machine gun.
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