1. Shotgun: Smoothbore shoulder firearm designed to fire a number of pellets, or shot, that cover a large target area after they leave the muzzle.

2. Nearly all line infantry carry smoothbore, muzzle - loading muskets.

3. Reasonable design, big flow zone , smoothbore, no heap of dirty, small flow resistance.

4. The APS itself is a relatively crude, smoothbore arm, with a gas operated, rotating bolt action, fired from an open bolt.

5. These soldiers carry muzzle-loading, smoothbore muskets firing lead balls as wide as a man's thumb.

6. A shoulder-held weapon consisting of a long metal smoothbore tube for firing armor-piercing rockets at short range.

7. On this is mounted a new locally-developed two-person turret, armed with a 125 mm smoothbore gun fed by an automatic loader.

8. Such rifles could not be loaded as rapidly as smoothbore muskets.

9. And the Westerners have achieved mature technology in designing and producing smoothbore guns.