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• Before Cannon
• The Arrival Of Cannon
• The Sixteenth Century
• The Seventeenth Century
• The Eighteenth Century
• Early Nineteenth Century
• Late Nineteenth Century
• The Artillery War
• Interwar Years
• The Second World War
• The Cold War
• After The Cold War.

"A History of Artillery traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough study of these weapons from its earliest recorded use to recent conflicts"-- Provided by publisher.

• "Pregnant with Disastrous Muddle"
• "The War Will Not Last a Month"
• "More Powerful Than the Charge of Cavalry"
• "Steering Among the Designs of Rival Inventors"
• "A New Era of Great Guns"
• An "Epoch of Change and Improvement"?
• "New Measures Demand New Men"
• Conclusion: "A Projectile to Be Fired by the Royal Navy".

""From the Crimean War through the Second Boer War, the British Empire sought to solve the "Great Gun Question"-to harness improvements to ordnance, small-arms, explosives and mechanization made possible by the Industrial Revolution. The British public played a surprising but overlooked role, offering myriad suggestions for improvements to the civilian-led War Office. Meanwhile, politicians and army leaders argued over control of the countrys ground forces in a decades-long struggle that did not end until reforms of 1904 put the military under the Secretary of State for War. Following the debate in the press, voters put pressure on both Parliament and the War Office to modernize ordnance and military administration. The "Great Gun Question" was as much about weaponry as about who ultimately controlled military power. Drawing on ordnance committee records and contemporary news reports, this book fills a gap in the history of British military technology and army modernization prior to World War I."-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

This work tells the full story of the weapons, including fighter-planes, tanks, ships, and guns, that America produced during the war to defeat the Axis powers, and how they were “sold” to those at home through the countless advertisements that appeared in popular magazines. Though well-known companies such as General Motors, Ford, Kelvinator, and B.F. Goodrich, and a whole host of others, could no longer sell their products to consumers, they instead turned their factories towards supplying the Arsenal of Democracy. In order to keep their names in the public spotlight, these companies advertised in great detail the weapons they were building; Cadillac touted its efforts in supplying components for Sherman tanks and P-38 Lightning fighters, Ford no longer built cars in Detroit, but B-24 Liberator bombers and Jeeps, while the home appliance company Kelvinator built aircraft components and flame-throwers. The story behind these advertisements, many of them stunning visuals which are here reproduced in color, is a unique aspect of World War II history that will both surprise and delight

Reports from Maryland Armorers, submitted to the Maryland House Committee on Militia by Francis Thomas, Governor. Inventories are provided for the armories of Annapolis (by Aaron Duvall, Armourer), Frederick Town (by Ezra Hoffman, Armourer) and Easton (by Henry Thomas, Armourer). The reports were submitted to the governor by Jno. N. Watkins, Adjutant General, Md.

• Misiles manpads
• Misiles Chinos HN-5A en Bolivia
• Abuso político-debilitamiento militar

• The European artillery heritage
• The American artillery heritage
• War footing
• Hardware
• Firing the big guns
• Projectiles and fuzes
• Batteries, battalions, and regiments
• Union artillery brigades and Confederate artillery battalions
• Soldiering with the big guns
• Artillery horses
• Defensive operations in the field
• Artillery against infantry
• Field artillery and fortifications
• Working toward effectiveness
• After the Civil War

The American Civil War saw the creation of the largest, most potent artillery force ever deployed in a conflict fought in the Western Hemisphere. It was as sizable and powerful as any raised in prior European wars. Moreover, Union and Confederate artillery included the largest number of rifled pieces fielded in any conflagration in the world up to that point. Earl J. Hess's Civil War Field Artillery is the first comprehensive general history of the artillery arm that supported infantry and cavalry in the conflict. Based on deep and expansive research, it serves as an exhaustive examination with abundant new interpretations that reenvision the Civil War's military. Hess explores the major factors that affected artillerists and their work, including the hardware, the organization of artillery power, relationships between artillery officers and other commanders, and the influence of environmental factors on battlefield effectiveness. He also examines the lives of artillerymen, the use of artillery horses, manpower replacement practices, effects of the widespread construction of field fortifications on artillery performance, and the problems of resupplying batteries in the field. In one of his numerous reevalutions, Hess suggests that the early war practice of dispersing guns and assigning them to infantry brigades or divisions did not inhibit the massing of artillery power on the battlefield, and that the concentration system employed during the latter half of the conflict failed to produce a greater concentration of guns. In another break with previous scholarship, he shows that the efficacy of fuzes to explode long-range ordnance proved a problem that neither side was able to resolve during the war. Indeed, cumulative data on the types of projectiles fired in battle show that commanders lessened their use of the new long-range exploding ordnance due to bad fuzes and instead increased their use of solid shot, the oldest artillery projectile in history.
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Always at the forefront of Arab states when it came to the development of its armed forces and armament industry, during the 1970s Iraq embarked on an ambitious program of becoming self-sufficient in production of almost all equipment and ammunition necessary for its armed forces. Indeed, during the following decade, many of the related projects became a necessity because of the lengthy and costly war with Iran. The most ambitious - and probably the best-known - such projects were related to the production of ballistic missiles: the efforts resulted in the construction of a factory for production of rocket propellant at Hillah and another for the assembly of ballistic missiles at Fallujah. A direct result emerged in early 1988, when Iraq deployed the al-Hussein ballistic missile (an extended-range variant of the Soviet-made R-17E 'Scud') to strike Tehran in Iran in the course of the so-called 'War of the cities'. However, al-Hussein was far from being the only such project. At the time Iraqi scientists and armament designers including Nassir al-Hindawi, Rihab at-Taha, and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash were considered some of the best in the world, they became closely involved in cooperating with Brazil, resulting in the development of the Astros 2 (a copy of the Soviet-made Luna-M artillery rocket), and then embarked on the development of such advanced designs as the Liath and Ababil, and a solid-fuel ballistic missile; the al-Samoud 2. Moreover, the Iraqis launched a project to develop indigenous early warning radar aircraft; anti-ballistic missiles; and cooperated with South Africa in the field of development of long-range artillery pieces like the GC-45 (in its GHN-45 variant). Indeed, within Project Babylon, the Iraqis cooperated with prominent Canadian artillery-expert Gerald Bull to develop the so-called 'super gun': a 1000mm artillery piece expected to be able of reaching a range of 750km. Written by one of the Iraqi engineers involved, and richly illustrated, al-Hussein is the first-hand account of these and many other indigenous Iraqi armament projects

"Military drones have recently been hailed as a revolutionary new technology that will forever change the conduct of war. And yet the United States and other countries have been deploying such unmanned military systems for more than a century. Written by a renowned authority in the field, this book documents the forgotten legacy of these pioneering efforts, offering the first comprehensive historical and technical accounting of unmanned air, land, sea, and underwater systems. Focusing on examples introduced during the two world wars, H.R. Everett meticulously traces their development from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. A pioneering Navy roboticist, Everett not only describes these systems in detail but also reverse-engineers the designs in order to explain how they operated in real-world conditions of the time. More than 500 illustrations -- photographs, drawings, and plans, many of them never before published -- accompany the text. Everett covers the evolution of early wire-guided submersibles, tracing the development of power, propulsion, communication, and control; radio-controlled surface craft, deployed by both Germany and Great Britain in World War I; radio-controlled submersibles; radio-controlled aircraft, including the TDR-1 assault drone project in World War II -- which laid the groundwork for subsequent highly classified drone programs; and radio-controlled ground vehicles, including the Wehrmacht's Goliath and Borgwald demolition carriers."

• Frontmatter
• FOREWORD
• AUTHOR'S PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Taylor System
• Chapter 2. The Ordnance Department
• Chapter 3. The Arsenal
• Chapter 4. Conflicts
• Chapter 5. Consequences
• Bibliographical Note
• Notes
• Index

The book is a balanced analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Taylorism, including the naiveté that led its proponents to ignore the emotional side of the complex roles and patterns that govern the world of work.Originally published in 1985.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

• INTRODUCTION I.1. Ammunition types and characteristics of their damaging effect I.2. Generalized characteristics of the damaging effect I.3. Evaluation of the effectiveness of shooting I.4. Self-assessment questions References
• Chapter 1. FRAGMENTATION AMMUNITIONS 1.1. Basic concepts and definitions. General information 1.2. The mechanics of high-speed deformation and destruction of shells under the action of an explosion 1.3. Modeling the processes of explosive fragmentation of shells using standard samples 1.4. Statistical models of the fragment fields and the fragment spectra 1.5. External ballistics of fragments 1.6. Kinds of the damaging effect of fragments 1.7. Laws of targets damage with fragments 1.8. Specified zone of target damage with fragmentation munitions 1.9. Methods for optimizing the parameters of fragmentation munitions 1.10. Vulnerability characteristics of objects to the effect of fragments, determination of safe distances 1.11. Self-assessment questions References
• Chapter 2. AMMUNITIONS WITH SHAPED CHARGES 2.1. Basic concepts and definitions. General information 2.2. Fundamentals of cumulative effects 2.3. Explosion loading of shaped charge liners, their throwing and collapse 2.4. Formation, tension of metal jets and their penetration into targets 2.5. The influence of design parameters and manufacturing technology of shaped charge on the penetration effect 2.6. Influence of the operational conditions of ammunition with shaped charge on their damaging effect 2.7. Formation and effect of explosively formed projectiles 2.8. The effect of ammunition with shaped charges on the armor of modern tanks 2.9. Methods for evaluating the effectiveness of ammunition with shaped charges 2.10. Self-assessment questions References
• Chapter 3. HIGH-EXPLOSIVE AMMUNITIONS 3.1. Basic concepts and definitions. General information 3.2. Parameters of an air shock wave during the explosion of high explosives 3.3. Reflection of shock waves from barriers and flow around barriers 3.4. Determination of parameters of an air shock wave during detonation of fuel-air mixtures 3.5. Evaluation of the damaging effect of shock waves on various objects 3.6. Explosion in water 3.7. Underground explosion 3.8. Self-assessment questions References
• Chapter 4. PENETRATING AMMUNITIONS 4.1. Basic concepts and definitions. General information 4.2. Interaction of impactors with targets 4.3. Formulation of penetration problems and ways to solve them 4.4. Shock with long rods 4.5. Peculiarities of collision with thin targets (screens) 4.6. Self-assessment questions References
• Chapter 5. NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF HIGH-SPEED PROCESSES 5.1. Introduction. Basic concepts 5.2. The system of equations of continuum mechanics 5.3. Behavior of materials under intense dynamic loads 5.3.1. Elastic medium 5.3.2 Hydrodynamic model 5.3.3. Elastoplastic, viscoplastic elastoviscoplastic models 5.3.4. Dislocation models 5.4. Numerical methods for solving dynamic problems 5.5. Short introduction to ANSYS AUTODYN 5.6. Numerical modeling examples 5.7. Self-assessment questions References APPENDICES A.1. Combined median errors at artillery shooting after full preparation of the source data A.2. Table of the normalized Laplace function A.3. Basic systems of units and the relationship between them A.4. Properties of high explosives A.5. Shock adiabats of substances References A.6. Bibliography.
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Comprehensive coverage of weapon damage effects on a variety of objects Damaging Effects of Weapons and Ammunition delivers a thorough exploration of a range of issues related to the effects of ammunition and weapons. The book includes coverage of the basic concepts of the theory of efficiency and the physical foundations of the functional and damaging effects of fragments, shaped charges, high-explosive and penetrating weapons. The author discusses the calculation formulas used to evaluation the parameters of damage fields and their interaction with various objects. Additionally, the book expands on the damage criteria of weapons, the characteristics of the vulnerability of objects with respect to a variety of damaging factors, dependencies for assessing safe distances, and the resistance of various structures to the effects of explosion and impact. Damaging Effects of Weapons and Ammunition also offers: Detailed calculation methods indicating areas of application and the necessary units of used quantities Extensive examples of classic designs of ammunition from around the world Discussions of the characterization of various types of ammunition, including high-explosive, fragment, penetrative, and shaped charges A chapter on the numerical simulation of high-speed processes Perfect for technical specialists working in the fields of explosion safety and explosives, Damaging Effects of Weapons and Ammunition also belongs in the libraries of researchers and students studying explosion phenomena, explosive technologies, explosion safety, and materials science.
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