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=== Artillery === {{Main|Rifled breech loader}} The first modern breech-loading rifled gun is a breech-loader invented by [[Martin von Wahrendorff]] with a cylindrical breech plug secured by a horizontal wedge in 1837. In the 1850s and 1860s, Whitworth and Armstrong invented improved breech-loading artillery. The M1867 naval guns produced in [[Russian Empire|Imperial Russia]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artillery-museum.ru/en/schema-2.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711201309/http://artillery-museum.ru/en/schema-2.html|url-status=dead|title=The History of Russian Artillery since the mid-19th century up to 1917|archivedate=11 July 2009}}</ref> at the [[Obukhov State Plant]] used [[Krupp]] technology.
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