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Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery

Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848321775
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns and Gunnery written by Norman Friedman and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book does for naval anti-aircraft defence what the author's Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery ÛÒ it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of the Second, highlighting in particular the widely underestimated danger from dive-bombing. Central to this discussion is an analysis of what effective AA fire-control required, and how well each navy's systems actually worked. It also takes in the weapons themselves, how they were placed on ships, and how this reflected the tactical concepts of naval AA defence. As would be expected from any Friedman book, it offers striking insights ÛÒ he argues, for example, that the Royal Navy, so often criticised for lack of 'air-mindedness', was actually the most alert to the threat, but that its systems were inadequate not because they were too primitive but because they tried to achieve too much.??The book summarises the experience of WW2, particularly in theatres where the aerial danger was greatest, and a concluding chapter looks at post-1945 developments that drew on wartime lessons. All important guns, directors and electronics are represented in close-up photos and drawings, and lengthy appendices detail their technical data. It is, simply, another superb contribution to naval technical history by its leading exponent.

Naval Firepower

Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1844681769
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Naval Firepower written by Norman Friedman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of naval battleship firepower from before World War I to the end of World War II, by America’s leading naval analyst. For more than half a century, the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. Because the naval gun platform was itself in motion, finding a “firing solution” was a significant problem exacerbated when gun sizes increased, fighting ranges lengthened, and seemingly minor issues like wind velocity had to be considered. To speed up the process and eliminate human error, navies sought a reliable mechanical calculation. This heavily illustrated book outlines for the first time in layman’s terms the complex subject of fire-control, as it dominated battleship and cruiser design from before World War I to the end of the dreadnought era. Covering the directors, range-finders, and electro-mechanical computers invented to solve the problems, author Norman Friedman explains not only how the technology shaped (and was shaped by) the tactics involved, but also analyzes their effectiveness in battle. His examination of the controversy surrounding Jutland and the relative merits of competing fire-control systems draws surprising conclusions. He also reassesses many other major gun actions, such as the battles between the Royal Navy and the Bismarck, and the U.S. Navy actions in the Solomons and at Surigao Strait. All major navies are covered, and the story concludes at the end of World War II with the impact of radar.

Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns & Gunnery

Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1473852846
Total Pages : 1252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns & Gunnery written by Norman Friedman and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 1252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature gives “an excellent overview of the problems involved in shooting at airplanes from ships.” (Coast Defense Journal). This book does for naval anti-aircraft defense what the author’s Naval Firepower did for surface gunnery—it makes a highly complex but historically crucial subject accessible to the layman. It chronicles the growing aerial threat from its inception in the First World War, and the response of each of the major navies down to the end of the Second, highlighting in particular the widely underestimated danger from dive-bombing. Central to this discussion is an analysis of what effective AA fire-control required, and how well each navy's systems actually worked. It also takes in the weapons themselves, how they were placed on ships, and how this reflected the tactical concepts of naval AA defense. Renowned military historian Norman Friedman offers striking insights he argues, for example, that the Royal Navy, so often criticized for lack of “air-mindedness,” was actually the most alert to the threat, but that its systems were inadequate—not because they were too primitive but because they tried to achieve too much. The book summarizes the experience of WW2, particularly in theaters where the aerial danger was greatest, and a concluding chapter looks at post-1945 developments that drew on wartime lessons. All important guns, directors and electronics are represented in close-up photos and drawings, and lengthy appendices detail their technical data. It is, simply, another superb contribution to naval technical history by its leading exponent.

Naval Weapons of World War One

Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473816661
Total Pages : 1531 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Naval Weapons of World War One written by Norman Friedman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 1531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth reference to the naval weapons used by Britain, Germany, the US, and the other combatants in the Great War, with photos: “Superb…invaluable.”—History of War Although the Great War might be regarded as the heyday of the big-gun at sea, it also saw the maturing of underwater weapons, the mine and torpedo, as well as the first signs of the future potency of air power. Between 1914 and 1918 weapons development was both rapid and complex, so this book has two functions: on the one hand it details all the guns, torpedoes, mines, aerial bombs and anti-submarine systems employed during that period; but it also seeks to explain the background to their evolution: how the weapons were perceived at the time and how they were actually used. This involves a discussion of tactics and emphasizes the key enabling technology of fire control and gun mountings. In this respect, the book treats the war as a transition from naval weapons which were essentially experimental at its outbreak to a state where they pointed directly to what would be used in World War II. Based largely on original research, this sophisticated book is more than a catalogue of the weapons, offering insight into some of the most important technical and operational factors influencing the war at sea.

Naval Ordnance and Gunnery

Author : Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher : Periscope Film LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781937684228
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Naval Ordnance and Gunnery written by Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by Periscope Film LLC. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naval Ordnance and Gunnery is the most definitive book to emerge from WWII on the subject of naval ordnance and fire control. Encyclopedic in content, the text runs nearly 600 pages and is richly illustrated with photos and diagrams of systems used on destroyers, cruisers, battleships and other warships. Within its pages you'll find detailed descriptions of weapons and ammunition, and discussions on subjects from gun design and construction, to fire control and trajectory analysis. Individual chapters discuss explosives, ammunition, gun assemblies (including barrels, breech assemblies and mounts), turret installations, semi-automatic guns, machine guns, small arms, torpedoes, depth charges and mines, and a history of fire control. Chapters about the fire control problem include studies of gun sight principles, range measurement, the surface problem, the AA problem, fundamentals of director control, dual-purpose battery fire-control system, main battery fire-control system, machine-gun control, torpedo control, spotting, and organization and communications systems and procedures. The book's easy-to-understand text explains the myriad complex problems affiliated with gunnery, and is an indispensable reference for the historian, docent or modeler intent on understanding how WWII gun crews and systems operated. Work on Naval Ordnance and Gunnery began in 1943 at the request of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Personnel. A capable team of five officers, working as writers and editors, compiled the book from a wide variety of sources including curriculum documents from the U.S. Naval Academy and Midshipmen's Schools, material from the Bureau of Ordnance, and various publications from the General Motors Corporation (which designed and built many of the 20mm and .50 caliber guns described in the book). Although it was declassified after WWII, it's never been easy to obtain a copy of this text. This high quality reprint includes all the original text, diagrams and photographs from the original 1944 edition.

Journal of the United States Artillery

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the United States Artillery written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Combat, 1950–1972

Author : Mandeep Singh
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526762110
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Combat, 1950–1972 written by Mandeep Singh and published by Air World. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-aircraft artillery was extensively used in combat in the First World War, though such weapons had made their debut in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, when the besieged French used balloons for observation and communication and the Prussians used the first custom built 1-pounder gun to try and shoot them down. It was, however, not until the Second World War that anti-aircraft artillery came into prominence, shooting down more aircraft than any other weapon and seriously degrading the conduct of air operations. In the battle between the attackers and anti-aircraft artillery, the latter had the upper hand when the war ended. The post-war years saw a decline in anti-aircraft artillery as peace prevailed, and the advent of the jet aircraft seemed to tilt the balance in favour of the aircraft as they flew faster and higher, seemingly beyond the reach of anti-aircraft artillery. It would take all the hi-tech equipment and the guile and cunning that anti-aircraft artillery could muster to try and reclaim pole position. It is that story, of the tug of war between the aircraft and artillery, that forms the narrative of this book – as it traces the history of combat employment of anti-aircraft artillery from the Korean War, in effect the first Jet Age war, to the War of Attrition between Arab states and Israel when the missiles came of age, sending the aircraft scurrying for cover. Anti-Aircraft Artillery in Combat, 1950–1972 is the first attempt to look at the combat performance of ground-based air defences, incorporating the views, analyses and experiences of Soviet, Arab and South Asian Armies. The book looks at the major wars between 1950 and 1972, including the Korean War, Vietnam War, the wars in South Asia in 1965 and 1971, and conflicts in the Middle East, such as the Six Day War.

The Evolution of Naval Weapons

Author : United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Naval Weapons written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Principles of Naval Ordnance and Gunnery

Author : United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Naval Ordnance and Gunnery written by United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Naval Ordnance and Gunnery

Author : United States Naval Academy. Department of Ordnance and Gunnery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Naval Ordnance and Gunnery written by United States Naval Academy. Department of Ordnance and Gunnery and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Treatise on Naval Gunnery

Author : Sir Howard Douglas
Publisher : London, J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on Naval Gunnery written by Sir Howard Douglas and published by London, J. Murray. This book was released on 1855 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Army Ordnance

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Ordnance written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British Naval Weapons of World War Two, Volume I

Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526747685
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book British Naval Weapons of World War Two, Volume I written by Norman Friedman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For anyone wishing to super-detail any British destroyer of this era, this book looks to be a real must-have.” —Nautical Research Guild's Model Ship World John Lambert was a renowned naval draftsman, whose plans were highly valued for their accuracy and detail by modelmakers and enthusiasts. By the time of his death in 2016 he’d produced over 850 sheets of drawings, many of which have never been published—until now. Lambert’s interest was always focused on smaller warships and his weapons drawings tend to be of open mountings—the kind that present a real challenge to modelmakers—rather than enclosed turret guns, but he also produced drawings of torpedo tubes, underwater weapons, fire-control directors, and even some specific armament-related deck fittings. This first volume in a series covers all such weapons carried by British destroyers of this era, with additional appendices devoted to earlier guns still in service, and destroyer-caliber weapons only mounted in larger ships. The drawings are backed by introductory essays by Norman Friedman, an acknowledged authority on naval ordnance, while a selection of photographs add to the value of the book as visual reference.

From Dam Neck to Okinawa

Author : Robert F. Wallace
Publisher : Department of the Navy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book From Dam Neck to Okinawa written by Robert F. Wallace and published by Department of the Navy. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Navy in the Modern World Series, No. 5. By Robert F. Wallace. Edited by Jeffrey G. Barlow. Offers a unique perspective on the effectiveness of the training program developed to enhance the United States Navy fleet's antiaircraft defense.

The Coast Artillery Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Coast Artillery Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fighters Over the Fleet

Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1848324065
Total Pages : 1247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Fighters Over the Fleet written by Norman Friedman and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 1247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tactical and technical history of the development of British, American, and Japanese naval air defense from the 1920s to the 1980s. This is an account of the evolution of naval fighters for fleet air defense and the parallel evolution of the ships operating and controlling them, concentrating on the three main exponents of carrier warfare: the British Royal Navy, the U.S. Navy, and the Imperial Japanese Navy. It describes the earliest efforts from the 1920s, but it was not until radar allowed the direction of fighters that organized air defense became possible. Thus, major naval-air battles of the Second World War like Midway, the Pedestal convoy, the Philippine Sea, and Okinawa are portrayed as tests of the new technology. This was ultimately found wanting by the Kamikaze campaigns, leading to postwar moves towards computer control and new kinds of fighters. After 1945 the threats of nuclear weapons and standoff missiles compounded the difficulties of naval air defense. The second half of the book covers R.N. and U.S.N. attempts to solve these problems, looking at the American experience in Vietnam and British operations in the Falklands War. It concludes with the ultimate U.S. development of techniques and technology to fight the Outer Air Battle in the 1980s, which in turn point to the current state of carrier fighters and the supporting technology. Based largely on documentary sources, some previously unused, this book will appeal to both the naval and aviation communities. “Fighters Over the Fleet provides more information about fleet air defense than any other work currently available. It is recommended for specialist as well aviation-minded readers.” —Naval Historical Foundation

Notes on Gunnery for Defensively Armed Merchant Vessels, Trawlers and Drifters 1918

Author : R. N. Gunnery School
Publisher : Naval & Military Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783313754
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Notes on Gunnery for Defensively Armed Merchant Vessels, Trawlers and Drifters 1918 written by R. N. Gunnery School and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official R.N. Gunnery School handbook drawn up for the information of Masters and Trained Gunnery Ratings of defensively armed merchant vessels. Valuable information covering: General instructions; Instructions for drill and practice; Sighting; Care and maintenance; Drill for all guns; Single gun control; Single gun anti-aircraft control; Ammunition; Hints on shooting; Notes on the submarine. During the Great War the UK blockaded Germany and armed its merchant ships to help defend them against U-boats. A single stern gun, equivalent to what a submarine might carry, was mounted, and civilian captains were encouraged to flee and shoot back from their more stable gun platform. 766 civilian ships had been armed by December 1915, and rose to 2,899 by February 1917. Arming of merchant ships pushed Germany away from prize rules towards unrestricted submarine warfare.