The encyclopedia of weaponry / Ian V. Hogg.
ISBN
0851125212
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
LC Yer Numarası
U800 .H64 1992
Dewey Yer Numarası
355.8209 HOG 1992
Yazar
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Quarto Publishing, 1992.
Fiziksel Tanımlama
224 sayfa : resim ; 34 cm.
Genel Not
“A Quarto book“
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Kaynakça ve dizin var.
İçindekiler Notu
CHAPTER ONE THE FIRST WEAPONS Clubs and maces 10 = Daggers and knives 12 m Slings and thrown weapons 14 = Blowpipes and air weapons 16 Early swords 18 m Axes and hammers 20 = Longbows 22 = Crossbows 24 = Spears and polearms 26 Early armour 28 m Engines 30 CHAPTER TWO MEDIEVAL DEVELOPMENTS Later swords 34 m Early cannon 36 m Armour from 1100 38 = Early handguns 40 CHAPTER THREE THE AGE OF GUNPOWDER Powder and shot 44 m Hackbut and arquebus 46 m Matchlock and wheel-lock 48 = Later cannon 50 Naval warfare to 1500 52 m Mortars and siegecraft 54 CHAPTER FOUR MOBILE WARFARE Flintlocks 58 m Muti-shot long-arms and pistols 60 = Bayonets 62 m Early artillery 64 Naval warfare: the age of sail 66 m Mobile artillery 68 From case shot to cartridges 70 m Rifling 72 CHAPTER FIVE : THE AGE OF INVENTION Percussion firearms 76 m Needle gun and chassepot 78 m Early breech-loading artillery 80 Rifled muzzle-loading artillery 82 m Small-arms conversions 84 m Breech-loading small arms 86 Magazine rifles 88 m Revolvers 90 m Breech-loading artillery 1870-1900 92 m Naval gunnery 1820-1870 94 Sea mines and torpedoes 96 m Mechanical machine guns 98 m Automatic machine guns 100 Quick-firing artillery 102 = Coastal defence 104 m Rockets to 1918 106 m Automatic pistols 108 CHAPTER SIX THE FIRST WORLD WAR Mortars and machine guns: 1914-18 112 m Early grenades 114 m Early fighting aircraft 116 Gas warfare 118 m Heavy and super-heavy artillery 122 m Railway guns 124 m Evolution of the tank 126 Aerial warfare: 1914-1918 128 m Anti-aircraft guns 130 = Naval gunnery of the First World War 132 Early submarines and undersea warfare 134 m First World War ammunition 136 Nor mK 9 EŞ CHAPTER SEVEN THE SECOND WORLD WAR Interwar tanks: 1918-39 140 m Second World War tanks 142 = Anti-tank weapons: 1920-1945 144 Aerial warfare: 1939-45 146 m Radar 148 m Advances in air-defence gunnery 150 Naval warfare 1939-45 152 m Automatic weapons 154 m Long-range artillery 156 Self-propelled artillery 158 = Mortars: 1918 to the present 160 m Flame weapons 162 Modern grenades 164 = Land mines 166 = Automatic cannon 168 = Recoilless guns 170 Battlefield rockets 172 m V-1 and V-2 rockets 174 m Nuclear weapons 176 CHAPTER EIGHT TODAY AND TOMORROW Helicopters 180 = Tactical support aircraft 182 m Strategic missiles 184 Tactical missiles 186 m Naval missiles 188 m Air-defence missiles 190 Tanks since 1945 192 m Light anti-tank weapons 194 m Anti-tank missiles 196 Landmines since 1945 198 = Modern-day artillery 200 m Cruise missiles 202 Target acquisition 204 m Undersea weapons since 1945 206 m Strategic bombers 208 Smart bombs and guidable shells 210 = Remote-controlled munitions 212 The Strategic Defence Initiative 214 Index 216 Further reading 223
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