Author: Ormond Mitchell LissakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballistics
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Ordnance and Gunnery
Author: Ormond Mitchell LissakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballistics
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
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.
A Treatise on Naval Gunnery
Author: Sir Howard DOUGLASPrinciples of Naval Ordnance and Gunnery
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval PersonnelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval gunnery
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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
Field Artillery Manual Cannon Gunnery
Author: Department of the ArmyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781975605674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Training Circular (TC) 3-09.81, "Field Artillery Manual Cannon Gunnery," sets forth the doctrine pertaining to the employment of artillery fires. It explains all aspects of the manual cannon gunnery problem and presents a practical application of the science of ballistics. It includes step-by-step instructions for manually solving the gunnery problem which can be applied within the framework of decisive action or unified land operations. It is applicable to any Army personnel at the battalion or battery responsible to delivered field artillery fires. The principal audience for ATP 3-09.42 is all members of the Profession of Arms. This includes field artillery Soldiers and combined arms chain of command field and company grade officers, middle-grade and senior noncommissioned officers (NCO), and battalion and squadron command groups and staffs. This manual also provides guidance for division and corps leaders and staffs in training for and employment of the BCT in decisive action. This publication may also be used by other Army organizations to assist in their planning for support of battalions. This manual builds on the collective knowledge and experience gained through recent operations, numerous exercises, and the deliberate process of informed reasoning. It is rooted in time-tested principles and fundamentals, while accommodating new technologies and diverse threats to national security.
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
A Course of Instruction in Ordnance and Gunnery
Author: James Gilchrist BentonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artillery
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Naval Gun
Author: Ian V. HoggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ordnance, Naval
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A history of gun naval warfare.
Naval Guns
Author: Hans MehlPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The history of naval artillery is a long and complex one and this highly-illustrated, single-volume work sets out to present a coherent story which will appeal both to the enthusiast as well as to the scholar and expert. It starts with the earliest guns, the bronze-cast cannon, which were cast employing the same technology as used for making church bells. A plethora of guns were soon to develop and along with them a multiplicity of names: basilisk, bombard, culverin, drake, minion, saker, passavolante, serpentine, and many others. By the end of the seventeenth century this muzzle-loading, smoothbore weapon had pretty well reached the zenith of its development and not until the introduction of armour and the explosive shell in the nineteenth century was there any fundamental change. With the development of breech loading and rifled barrels the rate of fire, range and accuracy improved dramatically. Today the navies of the world have fully automatic guns which load, train, lay and fire themselves with deadly accuracy.