During the Napoleonic Wars, the RN experimented with the 7-barrelled Nock volley gun as a sharpshooters' weapon to be fired by a seaman from the rigging of a RN ship onto the deck of an enemy vessel below. Unfortunately, the Nock gun never developed into a widely-used weapon, due to the huge amount of recoil from firing so many barrels at once (which would break the shoulder of any man), the lack of suitably large men to wield it, and the cumbersome nature of loading 7 barrels individually.
What sort of POD/s would be required for the Nock gun to have been more widely manufactured during 1798-1815, and to be used both at sea and on land ?
What sort of POD/s would be required for the Nock gun to have been more widely manufactured during 1798-1815, and to be used both at sea and on land ?