Author: Cyrus S. RadfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Hand-book on Naval Gunnery
Author: Cyrus S. RadfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns & Gunnery
Author: Norman FriedmanPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1473852846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
A winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature gives “an excellent overview of the problems involved in shooting at airplanes from ships.” (Coast Defense Journal). This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what the author’s Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery—it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War, and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of the Second, highlighting in particular the widely underestimated danger from dive-bombing. Central to this discussion is an analysis of what effective AA fire-control required, and how well each navy's systems actually worked. It also takes in the weapons themselves, how they were placed on ships, and how this reflected the tactical concepts of naval AA defense. Renowned military historian Norman Friedman offers striking insights he argues, for example, that the Royal Navy, so often criticized for lack of “air-mindedness,” was actually the most alert to the threat, but that its systems were inadequate—not because they were too primitive but because they tried to achieve too much. The book summarizes the experience of WW2, particularly in theaters where the aerial danger was greatest, and a concluding chapter looks at post-1945 developments that drew on wartime lessons. All important guns, directors and electronics are represented in close-up photos and drawings, and lengthy appendices detail their technical data. It is, simply, another superb contribution to naval technical history by its leading exponent.
A TEXT-BOOK OF NAVAL ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY
Author: A.P. COOKE Hand-book on Naval Gunnery
Author: Cyrus S. RadfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Manual of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery for the U.S. Naval Training Service
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval PersonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Manual of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery for the U.S. Naval Training Service
Author: United States. Navy Department. Bureau of NavigationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Text-book of Ordnance and Gunnery
Author: Royal Rodney IngersollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Manual of Gunnery Instructions for the Navy of the United States
Author: Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery
Author: Norman FriedmanPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848321775
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book does for naval anti-aircraft defence what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery ÛÒ it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of the Second, highlighting in particular the widely underestimated danger from dive-bombing. Central to this discussion is an analysis of what effective AA fire-control required, and how well each navy's systems actually worked. It also takes in the weapons themselves, how they were placed on ships, and how this reflected the tactical concepts of naval AA defence. As would be expected from any Friedman book, it offers striking insights ÛÒ he argues, for example, that the Royal Navy, so often criticised for lack of 'air-mindedness', was actually the most alert to the threat, but that its systems were inadequate not because they were too primitive but because they tried to achieve too much.??The book summarises the experience of WW2, particularly in theatres where the aerial danger was greatest, and a concluding chapter looks at post-1945 developments that drew on wartime lessons. All important guns, directors and electronics are represented in close-up photos and drawings, and lengthy appendices detail their technical data. It is, simply, another superb contribution to naval technical history by its leading exponent.
Ordnance and Gunnery
Author: United States Naval Academy. Department of Ordnance and GunneryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description