This document on military arms and ammunition begins with terms and expressions used in conjunction with small arms and the motion of the rifle bullet. Resistance of the air to the motion of a projectile, trajectory of the bullet, penetration and...
Catalog of munitions available from the Bethlehem Steel Company with descriptions, characteristics, and illustrations. Includes a history of the company. Document is in English and Spanish.
"This memorandum will be devoted to a general discussion of the construction of field artillery materiel. The scope of the discussion is sufficient to provide a background for the future study of all field artillery officers. The purpose,...
Wheeler, Charles Brewster and Tschappat, William H.
While artillery experts are agreed as to the advantages of increased rapidity of fire for field guns, they appear not to have decided upon the most desirable form of field carriage, nor to what limits the increased rapidity of fire should be...
This treatise deals primarily with American artillery and includes such data, description, etc., as can be given in one volume of reasonable size and still cover the history of development, the design and manufacture of a modern great seacoast gun...
This handbook of artillery materiel is the sixth edition of this work. Topics include general principles of gun construction, breech-loading ordnance, quick-firing guns, machine guns, explosives, projectiles, fuzes/tubes, field and siege carriages,...
This text is intended to present the general characteristics of existing field artillery weapons in a manner not too highly technical to be understood without an examination of the materiel under discussion.
The Drill Regulations for Coast Artillery, United States Army, prepared by the Board on the Regulation of Coast Artillery Fire,are published for the information and government of the Army. To insure uniformity throughout the Army, all coast...
The object of this examination is to ascertain in each company the qualified gunners, by their absolute and relative excellence in comprehending and mastering the prescribed instruction.
"For some years past all ordnance manufactured for the Service have been of steel and breech loading. These modern ordnance, as they are termed, differ considerably from the wrought-iron and stell muzzle-loading pieces which, as regards...
"This 1942 manual is published for the information and guidance of personnel using the 20mm aircraft gun materiel M1 and M2 and contains technical information requried in the identification, use, and care of the materiel."
"The following brief account of the elementary principles of gunnery has therefore been written so as to serve as an introduction to a proper study of the subject and with the hope that it may prove of some use to those who may wish to learn a very...