Orban was from Brassó, Kingdom of Hungary, before working for the Ottoman army in 1453. Most of the cannons at the siege were built by Turkish engineers, including a large bombard by Saruca, while one cannon was built by Orban, who also contributed a large bombard. They were built at foundries that employed Turkish cannon founders and technicians, most notably Saruca, in addition to at least one foreign cannon founder, Orban. Īt the siege of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans employed a number of cannons, anywhere from 12 to 62. The Ottoman army successfully deployed large bombards at the siege of Salonica in 1430, and against the Hexamilion wall at the Isthmus of Corinth in 1446. According to Paul Hammer and Gábor Ágoston, the technology could have been introduced from other Islamic countries which had earlier used cannons. Such super-sized bombards had been employed in Ottoman warfare and in Western European siege warfare since the beginning of the 15th century. The powder chamber and the barrel are connected by the way of a screw mechanism, allowing easier transport of the unwieldy device. The Dardanelles Gun was cast in bronze in 1464 by Munir Ali with a weight of 16.8 tonnes and a length of 5.18 m (17.0 ft), being capable of firing stone balls of up to 0.63 m diameter (24.8 in).
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