ARTICLES AND RESOURCES ON MILITARY TECHNOLOGY
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A FORUM for discussing issues related to military technology. Now under separate management
A GLOSSARY of military gun and ammunition terms
LINKS: some technical military history websites
BOOK REFERENCES : the ones I refer to most often
Articles (click on text to read):
GENERAL
An introduction to collecting 30 mm cannon ammunition
An introduction to collecting 23-28mm cartridges
An introduction to collecting 20 mm cannon cartridges
Military Cartridge Relationships
Of Oerlikons and Other Things….the API Blowback family
The Experimental US Cal. .90 Series Cannon
37mm and 40mm Guns in British Service
47mm Ammunition for British Service
The 6 pdr 7 cwt and the Molins Guns
Split-Breech Guns: The Nutcracker and the 40mm Mk 18
ARMY
There is more to short barrels than just velocity
Towards a “600 m” lightweight General Purpose Cartridge
Mortar Ammunition: an international survey
The .256 inch British; a Lost Opportunity
SA80: Mistake or Maligned – and What Next?
On the Terminal Effectiveness of Small-Arms Ammunition
An Introduction To Anti-Tank Rifle Cartridges
Grenade Launchers and their Ammunition: International Developments
The P.A.W. – a new 20 x 42 cartridge and gun
Options for light/medium AFV gun armament
Light AFV guns and the WCSP and FRES Scout projects
An alternative 1930s British Tank Gun – and its Successor
Czechoslovakian 57mm AA Gun R-10
The Red King, the Red Queen and the Vigilante AMENDED MAY 2011
Transitional Anti-Tank Rifle: The Recoilless Carl Gustav M42
Lahti L35 and Husqvarna m/40 pistols
NAVAL
French Interwar 37 mm AA guns and ammunition
Naval Armament – the MCG Problem
An Alternative Royal Navy for the 1970s
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
Modern Fighter Gun Effectiveness
Development of Su-27 gun armament
The Soviet GSh-6-30 aircraft cannon
Cannon or Machine Gun? The Second World War Aircraft Gun Controversy
WW2 Fighter Armament Effectiveness
The Prewar Experimental aircraft MGs of Vasily Degtyarev
The Battle of Britain: Armament of the Competing Fighters
Tankbusters: Airborne Anti-Tank Guns in World War 2
The Vickers 40mm S Gun with Littlejohn Adaptor
The RAF’s 47mm Class P Gun project
The Hispano-Suiza HS.404 20 mm Aircraft Gun in US Service
Another Missed Opportunity: the Oerlikon FFL
The 14 mm 14-Shi Machine Gun of the Imperial Japanese Navy
The Cannon Pioneers: the Early Development and Use of Aircraft Cannon
‘Early Aircraft Armament’ amendments
Polish Air Force Armament 1918-39