Dreyse rifle

Dreyse rifle

▪ military weapon
also called  Needle Gun,  

      rifle named for its inventor, Nikolaus von Dreyse (Dreyse, Nikolaus von). It had a long, sharp firing pin designed to pierce the charge of propelling powder and strike the detonating material (usually mercury fulminate) located at the base of the bullet. The Dreyse rifle, invented between 1827 and 1829, was adopted by the Russian Army in 1848. It was replaced by the Mauser in 1871. See also rifle.

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