Ammunition. Textbook for universities. In 2 volumes. Volume 1

In the first volume in a systematic form, the classification of ammunition and means of defeat is described, the characteristics of the effectiveness of their action are described. The classification of fragmentation, high-explosive and cumulative ammunition, ammunition with directed streams of damaging elements and ammunition of the volumetric explosion, as well as structural-circular solutions, functioning processes and operation parameters of these ammunition are also examined in detail.
The content of the textbook corresponds to the course of lectures read by the authors in the MSTU. N.E. Bauman, as well as numerous publications devoted to research and development of defeat and ammunition.
For students and graduate students of technical universities and machine -building universities, cadets of military schools, listeners and adjuncts of military academies.
In the second volume, the characteristics of the effectiveness of the action considered in the first volume of the types of ammunition are given. The basic concepts, the principles of the use of weapons of non -lethal action are presented. The classification of devices and the principles of the action of fuses (fuse devices) of ammunition for various purposes, as well as general information about the initiation tools, are considered. Constructive-cycle solutions, functioning processes and action parameters are described, concrete-piercing ammunition, auxiliary ammunition, as well as dynamic protection devices.
The content of the textbook corresponds to the course of lectures read by the authors in the MSTU. N.E. Bauman, as well as numerous publications devoted to research and development of defeat and ammunition.
For students and graduate students of technical universities and machine -building universities, cadets of military schools, listeners and adjuncts of military academies.
3rd edition, corrected