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guns of much larger size firing explosive shells of lighter relative weight (compared to all-metal balls) so increased the range of the guns that the main problem became aiming them while the ship was moving on the waves. This problem was solved with the introduction of the gyroscope, which corrected this motion and provided sub-degree accuracies. Guns were now free to grow to any size, and quickly surpassed {{convert calibre by the 1890s. These guns were capable

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