ARTICLES AND RESOURCES ON MILITARY TECHNOLOGY

CANNON, MACHINE GUNS AND AMMUNITION

BOOKS BY ANTHONY G WILLIAMS

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NON-FICTION

Jane's

Ammunition

Handbook

 

(co-editor,

with Leland Ness)

 

New Edition!

 

NAVAL GUNS

 

ammunition

& mountings

 

from WW1 to the present day

 

2007-2008 Edition

UPDATES 20 JANUARY 2008

TBA

with Emmanuel Gustin

with Maxim Popenker

by Maxim Popenker

MACHINE

GUN

 

 

UPDATES 16 SEP 2004

UPDATES 22 JAN 2005

UPDATES 27 DEC 2006

UPDATES 17 OCT 2006

coming spring 2008

Jan 2007

 


A FORUM for discussing issues related to military technology

A GLOSSARY of military gun and ammunition terms UPDATED 24 FEBRUARY 2008

LINKS : some technical military history websites UPDATED 27 DECEMBER 2006

BOOK REFERENCES : the ones I refer to most often NEW 11 APRIL 2003

AMMUNITION PHOTO GALLERY AMENDED 6 OCTOBER 2007

AMMUNITION DATA TABLES AMENDED 20 JANUARY 2008


 Articles (click on text to read):

GENERAL

A 'Primer' on Cartridges  AMENDED 12 OCTOBER 2004

Basic Ballistics   AMENDED 6 APRIL 2008

An introduction to collecting 30 mm cannon ammunition NEW 26 APRIL 2008

An introduction to collecting 23-28mm cartridges NEW 31 DECEMBER 2007

An introduction to collecting 20 mm cannon cartridges NEW 6 MARCH 2007


Eurosatory 2006 NEW 18 JUNE 2006

DSEi 2005 NEW 7 NOVEMBER 2005

Fakes and Replicas NEW 5 APRIL 2005

The Search for High Velocity

DSEi 2003  NEW 1 APRIL 2004

Military Cartridge Relationships AMENDED 24 JUNE 2004

Of Oerlikons and Other Things....the API Blowback family  AMENDED 12 JULY 2003

Bofors Automatic Cannon   AMENDED 27 AUGUST 2005

The .5" Vickers Guns  AMENDED 7 NOVEMBER 2005

37mm and 40mm Guns in British Service  AMENDED 28 MARCH 2004

The 6 pdr 7 cwt and the Molins Guns AMENDED 17 NOVEMBER 2002

Très Haute Vitesse  AMENDED 27 AUGUST 2005

Split-Breech Guns: The Nutcracker and the 40mm Mk 18   AMENDED 8 NOVEMBER 2005


ARMY

Why bullpups? NEW 26 DECEMBER 2007

On the Terminal Effectiveness of Small-Arms Ammunition NEW 19 DECEMBER 2007

Assault Rifles and their Ammunition: History and Prospects  AMENDED 21 OCTOBER 2006

SA80: Mistake or Maligned - and What Next?  AMENDED 4 OCTOBER 2007

Where Next For PDWs?  AMENDED 24 DECEMBER 2007

Light AFV guns and the WFLIP project AMENDED 6 APRIL 2008

Czechoslovakian 57mm AA Gun R-10 NEW 23 OCTOBER 2007

The P.A.W. - a new 20 x 42 cartridge and gun AMENDED 30 AUGUST 2007

The White Rifles  NEW 1 SEPTEMBER 2005

Special Purpose Small Arms Ammunition of the USSR and Russia NEW 5 APRIL 2005

More Punch for the AR-15 NEW 20 AUGUST 2005

The Teppo Jutsu Range of Cartridges NEW 20 AUGUST 2005

An Introduction to Anti-Tank Rifle Cartridges  NEW 21 JANUARY 2005

The Red Queen and the Vigilante AMENDED 5 APRIL 2005

The .256" British; a Lost Opportunity AMENDED 18 JUNE 2007

Cartridges for silenced sniping rifles AMENDED 10 AUGUST 2006

Recent Russian Small Arms

Transitional Anti-Tank Rifle: The Recoilless Carl Gustav M42   AMENDED 24 JUNE 2004

Lahti L35 and Husqvarna M40 pistols AMENDED 10 AUGUST 2006


NAVAL

Naval Armament - the MCG Problem AMENDED 6 APRIL 2008

The 25.4mm Vickers naval AA guns AMENDED 24 FEBRUARY 2008

An Alternative Royal Navy for the 1970s  NEW 23 MAY 2004

The Return of the Big Gun?

Short Range AA Gun Systems of the Royal Navy

Medium calibre guns of the Royal Navy in World War Two

Interwar British Battleship Design


AIRCRAFT

Will the Fighter Gun Survive? NEW 21 MARCH 2006

Modern Fighter Gun Effectiveness NEW 21 MARCH 2006

Development of Su-27 gun armament NEW 5 JUNE 2006

The Soviet GSh-6-30 aircraft cannon NEW 8 MAY 2006

Grabin aircraft guns NEW 8 MAY 2006

Cannon or Machine Gun? The Second World War Aircraft Gun Controversy NEW 21 MARCH 2006

WW2 Fighter Armament Effectiveness  AMENDED 28 JUNE 2004

Ideal WW2 Fighter Armament AMENDED 25 MARCH 2003

The Battle of Britain: Armament of the Competing Fighters  AMENDED 29 AUGUST 2005

Tankbusters: Airborne Anti-Tank Guns in World War 2  AMENDED 24 JUNE 2004

The Vickers 40mm S Gun with Littlejohn Adaptor

The RAF's 47mm Class P Gun project AMENDED 31 DECEMBER 2006

The Hispano-Suiza HS.404 20 mm Aircraft Gun in US Service AMENDED 24 JANUARY 2008

British WW2 Multi-role Plane AMENDED 2 MAY 2005

Another Missed Opportunity: the Oerlikon FFL  AMENDED 25 MARCH 2003

The Cannon Pioneers: the Early Development and Use of Aircraft Cannon NEW 5 APRIL 2005

'Early Aircraft Armament' amendments  AMENDED 4 FEBRUARY 2003

Polish Air Force Armament 1918-39

Guns of the Fleet Air Arm AMENDED 2 APRIL 2006


MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES

On Binoculars  AMENDED 21 MARCH 2006


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