ARTICLES AND RESOURCES ON MILITARY TECHNOLOGY
CANNON, MACHINE GUNS AND AMMUNITION
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BOOKS BY ANTHONY G WILLIAMS Click on covers for details |
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Jane's Ammunition Handbook
(co-editor, with Leland Ness)
New Edition!
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NAVAL GUNS
ammunition & mountings
from WW1 to the present day
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UPDATES 20 JANUARY 2008 |
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with Emmanuel Gustin |
with Maxim Popenker |
by Maxim Popenker |
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MACHINE GUN
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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
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
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
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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