"What do you two think?"
Jerome Bonaparte turned his head to look at the Logistics Director Nie'er and the Director of the Military Equipment Department. On such matters, Jerome Bonaparte did not wish to impose his own thoughts onto the Ministry of War.
In Jerome Bonaparte's eyes, the Grand Napoleon Cannon's effective (service) life would be only about 7-8 years. It was entirely a makeshift solution to satisfy France's "lack of firepower" during the Crimean War, and the future direction of France's development was not in expensive bronze smoothbore guns.
Rather, it was in more durable large-caliber rifled steel guns and breech-loading rifles with adequate gas seals.
Jerome Bonaparte had decided that after the Crimea was concluded, the French Army would implement a gradual rearmament plan, with breech-loaders gradually replacing muzzle-loaders.
