Volume includes additional data which have been accumulated on terminal ballistics and revises and expands upon data already presented in previous volumes of this series.
The purpose of this book is to report additional data which have been accumulated on terminal ballistics and should be of assistance in the selection and use of weapons and ammunition against specific targets. Topics in this volume include bomb...
This manual is written as a guide for the tactical training and combat procedure for the individual tank, the tank section, and the tank platoon, both light and medium. The tactical procedures and methods set forth herein are not to be followed as...
Final edition of a loose-leaf notebook containing sheets designed to give, in compact and accessible form, quantitative information needed in the defense and attack of various targets where airborne or ground weapons are used. The weapons...
The U.S. Army Military Police (MP) Corps began fielding the M1117 "Guardian" Armored Security Vehicle (ASV) in Fiscal Year 2000, in order to provide MP with greater protection and firepower. Most MP officers have never employed the unique...
Three armor piercing rounds for the gun, 90mm, M3 have been developed and a detailed description of each and comparative penetration performances are presented in this brochure.
Published for use as a text book in the Coast Artillery School and in schools providing military training, it includes classifications of ammunition, primers, propellants, projectiles, charges, fuses, and fire effects.
This field manual details mechanical training, marksmanship (known distance targets, moving ground targets, and air targets), technique of fire, and advice to instructors for the Browning automatic rifle.
The purpose of this manual is to serve as a guide in the identification of foreign armored vehicles and contains illustrations with explanatory data relative to German, Japanese, Russian, and Italian armored vehicles.
Topics of this document include warfare, leadership and its means, tactics of the single arms (infantry and its auxiliary arms, artillery, cavalry, additional machine gun organization, pioneers, aerial fighting forces and defense, communication...
This is a recommendation that par 9, Sec VIII and par 10, Sec XVI, War Department Equipment Board (Stilwell Board), Tab A, be modified prior to approval by the War Department, include high velocity and flat trajectory as the primary characteristic...
A review by the board of various types of equipment required for the Army Ground Forces in the postwar Army, including equipment used by the Army Air Forces in direct support of ground operations and equipment for service type units normally a part...
This monograph examines a looming gap in the Army's inventory. After April 1997 a strategically deployable airdroppable lightweight armored vehicle to support early entry forces will not exist. The decisions to terminate the Armored Gun System...
This book is designed to give students the ability to read maps and to comprehend the military possibilities of the terrain. Includes the principles and methods of making and using military maps in both war games and other military situations,...
The purpose of this book is to report data which has been accumulated on terminal ballistics and to represent all data available on terminal ballistics in such form as it should be useful and a great assistance in the selection and use of weapons...
This Worldwide Equipment Guide (WEG) describes the spectrum of worldwide systems and system trends in the Contemporary Operational Environment (COE). The updated and approved definition for COE is as follows: The contemporary operational...
This thesis examines the Iowa class battleships and whether they hold utility for the future. There is a myriad of writings concerning the history of the battleships and the arguments both for and against. The author uses this history to determine...
This monograph examines Carl von Clausewitz's theoretical concept of the defensive culminating point and the ability of Army doctrine and its analysis system--Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield--to determine an enemy's courses of action...
This monograph examines the employment of irregular forces as a source of operational intelligence. Often, technical methods are the primary (and sometimes the only) source of operational intelligence. Irregular forces, locally recruited...