Canester is one of the old ammunitions available. Just about all american artilley has a round available Being smoothbore, the 120 tank gun would be especially effective. it is called canaster because the original load was just a tin canaster full of round lead pistol balls. it only had a couple hundred yards range but that was enough if you were muzzle-to-muzzle on a sailing warship. Remember the very long bery good movie about Gettysburg that Ted Turner made; there was one scene at the break point of Pickett's charge, the Union artillery fired a Napoleon 12 pounder with a double canaster load. It killed hundreds. |