Drow swivel gun

Straddling the line between true artillery and firearms are swivel guns. Though they are used as part of the defensive arsenals of some fortifications and occasionally as offensive weapons on land by landing parties, these weapons are most commonly found on ships for use against enemy personnel, sinking rowboats and as weapons of last resort in ship to ship battles. They get their names from the fact that they are mounted on sockets from which they are swiveled around. Like their smaller and larger counterparts in recent years the markers of swivel guns have been attempting to upgrade them using Infrastructural technology.

This praticular model was first put into production in 30 IA in  Janilonas by House Zaelros's Armory using an enlarged Screw Breechloading system based off that used by the Imperial Pattern-1405 Yorigsov Rifle and by extension the Infrastructural Type-2R rifle. In most other respects it is similar to the previous generations of swivel guns. It fires a Half Vaul shot and has a bore diameter of 34.2 millimeters. Initially this design was a smoothbore one, but between 33 and 35 IA Zaelros switched over to rifled units. Attempts to scale this weapon up to a full sized cannon have not yielded satisfactory results.

In general these guns are well liked by their crews and are considered a significant upgrade on previous designs. Both the Janilonas Navy and the various maritime houses have placed orders for these guns. Despite this production output of these guns remains fairly low as House Zaelros viewed improvements to manufacturing equipment and upgrading their facilities to be secondary priorities, as is the case for upgraded artillery. This has caused them to loose business to foreign rivals, in particular House Valcas.