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Even the earliest weapon developers faced the need to understand how and why guns and ammunition work in order to improve their effectiveness. As weapons became more sophisticated, the field of ballistics naturally divided into three main areas of specialization: interior, exterior, and terminal ballistics. Providing unique coverage of all three areas, Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition offers a seamless presentation of the complex phenomena that occur during the launch, flight, and impact of a projectile.
Reader-friendly in style and format, the book explains the fundamental physics, terminology, theory, engineering aspects, and design techniques for each area in gradually increasing detail and complexity. Starting with interior ballistics, the authors examine the analytical and computational tools used to predict a weapon’s behavior in terms of pressure, stress and velocity, demonstrating their applications in ammunition and weapons design. The book continues with coverage of exterior ballistics, exploring the physics behind trajectories, including linear and nonlinear aeroballistics. The final section focuses on the effects of projectile impact, including details on shock physics, shaped charges, penetration, fragmentation, and wound ballistics.
Enhanced with insights drawn from the authors’ extensive experience in government laboratories, industry, and academia, Ballistics provides an ideal vehicle for encouraging superior design and innovative applications in the field.
Reader-friendly in style and format, the book explains the fundamental physics, terminology, theory, engineering aspects, and design techniques for each area in gradually increasing detail and complexity. Starting with interior ballistics, the authors examine the analytical and computational tools used to predict a weapon’s behavior in terms of pressure, stress and velocity, demonstrating their applications in ammunition and weapons design. The book continues with coverage of exterior ballistics, exploring the physics behind trajectories, including linear and nonlinear aeroballistics. The final section focuses on the effects of projectile impact, including details on shock physics, shaped charges, penetration, fragmentation, and wound ballistics.
Enhanced with insights drawn from the authors’ extensive experience in government laboratories, industry, and academia, Ballistics provides an ideal vehicle for encouraging superior design and innovative applications in the field.
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Easily the best book on ballistics that I have seen and/or bought. I found the book most useful, it uses a combination of explanations and maths that is not too complex as well as diagrams/illustrations. I dumbed it down when explaining about ballistics to an experimental class of shooters and was most impressed with the positive feedback, some now want to buyt the book too!
I highly recomend this book who loves shooting and would like to know more about the theory which will in turn help in practice.
I highly recomend this book who loves shooting and would like to know more about the theory which will in turn help in practice.
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17 of 20 people found the following review helpful
so many misprints
5 April 2008
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The chapters about exterior ballistics have many misprints: not so many as in McCoy's book (which is frequently cited), but still enough to destroy the reader's confidence on the results presented.
The chapters about terminal ballistics are somewhat vague about the applicability of the equations. Well, any useful results must necessarily be classified.
Thermodynamicists the authors are not.
All in all, the book is only an introductory work; but no more than that.
The chapters about terminal ballistics are somewhat vague about the applicability of the equations. Well, any useful results must necessarily be classified.
Thermodynamicists the authors are not.
All in all, the book is only an introductory work; but no more than that.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Comprehensive but exceedingly hard to deal with
17 Oct 2010
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To preface - I hold an advanced degree in Math.
I bought this book mainly for External Ballistics - instead of McCoy's classic because of the negative reviews (errors) in the latter. I found the External Ballistics chapters almost impossible to read, with drawings looking like mockery of those in McCoy's book. And Dr. Carlucci's book has its own fair share of errors - 6 or so pages of errors.
Frustrated, I put this book on the shelf to be a reference in Internal and Terminal Ballistics if/when I need it, bit the bullet and bought the "real McCoy". What a relief! Robert McCoy's book reads really well (at least in my humble opinion)! Yes it has 20 PAGES of errata. Fine, I've printed those out and added to the book. Small price for usability.
Currently (as all I need now is external ballistics calculations) I use "the real McCoy".
I bought this book mainly for External Ballistics - instead of McCoy's classic because of the negative reviews (errors) in the latter. I found the External Ballistics chapters almost impossible to read, with drawings looking like mockery of those in McCoy's book. And Dr. Carlucci's book has its own fair share of errors - 6 or so pages of errors.
Frustrated, I put this book on the shelf to be a reference in Internal and Terminal Ballistics if/when I need it, bit the bullet and bought the "real McCoy". What a relief! Robert McCoy's book reads really well (at least in my humble opinion)! Yes it has 20 PAGES of errata. Fine, I've printed those out and added to the book. Small price for usability.
Currently (as all I need now is external ballistics calculations) I use "the real McCoy".
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding in-depth coverage of fundamental ballistics
24 Mar 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This textbook provides the most in-depth explanation of the fundamentals of ballistics that I've encountered. The book is designed as a college engineering textbook and reads as such. It starts with fundamental (thermodynamics, chemistry, dynamics, etc) and generates equations related to ballistics. I found the application of various areas of chemistry and physics to enlighten my understanding of ballistics. The book focuses primarily on the theory rather than the empirical side of the ballistics.
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