ARTICLES AND RESOURCES ON MILITARY TECHNOLOGY

CANNON, MACHINE GUNS AND AMMUNITION

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 AMENDED 8 FEBRUARY 2009

BOOK REFERENCES : the ones I refer to most often UPDATED 18 JUNE 2009

AMMUNITION PHOTO GALLERY AMENDED 9 NOVEMBER 2008

AMMUNITION DATA TABLES AMENDED 14 NOVEMBER 2009

 Articles (click on text to read):

GENERAL

A 'Primer' on Cartridges  AMENDED 12 OCTOBER 2004

Basic Ballistics   AMENDED 8 JULY 2009

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

Historic Machine Gun Cartridges NEW 28 MARCH 2009

Eurosatory 2008 NEW 2 AUGUST 2008

Eurosatory 2006 NEW 18 JUNE 2006

DSEi 2005 NEW 7 NOVEMBER 2005

DSEi 2003  NEW 1 APRIL 2004

Fakes and Replicas NEW 5 APRIL 2005

The Search for High Velocity

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 JULY 2009

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

Très Haute Vitesse  AMENDED 3 APRIL 2009

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

Less-lethal Ammunition NEW 30 AUGUST 2009

ARMY

Assault Rifles and their Ammunition: History and Prospects  AMENDED 29 AUGUST 2009

Where Next For PDWs?  AMENDED 29 AUGUST 2009

Some Thoughts on Metal Storm NEW 6 FEBRUARY 2009

Light AFV guns and the WFLIP and FRES Scout projects AMENDED 18 JUNE 2009

Why bullpups? AMENDED 19 MAY 2009

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

Cartridges for Long-Range Sniping Rifles AMENDED 13 FEBRUARY 2009

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

The P.A.W. - a new 20 x 42 cartridge and gun AMENDED 25 JANUARY 2009

New Developments in Grenade Ammunition AMENDED 22 JUNE 2008

An alternative 1930s British Tank Gun NEW 9 NOVEMBER 2008

Czechoslovakian 57mm AA Gun R-10 NEW 23 OCTOBER 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 27 SEPTEMBER 2008

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 3 APRIL 2009

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

The Development of RAF Guns and Ammunition from WW1 to the Present Day NEW 17 NOVEMBER 2008

Will the Fighter Gun Survive? UPDATED 3 APRIL 2009

Modern Fighter Gun Effectiveness UPDATED 3 APRIL 2009

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 25 JANUARY 2009

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 3 APRIL 2009

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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