Engineering Design Handbook: Guns Series. Automatic Weapons

Abstract

This handbook presents and discusses procedures normally practiced for the design of automatic weapons, and explores the problems stemming from the functions of each weapon and its components. It is intended to assist and guide the designer of automatic weapons of the gun type, and to contain pertinent design information and references.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0868578

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Materiel Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ammunition
  • Angular Acceleration
  • Automatic Weapons
  • Cams
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Firing Rate
  • Friction
  • Geometry
  • Gun Support Equipment
  • Machine Guns
  • Mechanics
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Munitions
  • Reliability

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • ballistics.