The Air Weapon
The Air Weapon

Author: Andrew G.B. Vallance

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-27

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1349244201

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Air power today dominates virtually all military operations, yet it remains the least well-understood form of armed force. Technical and tactical details of aviation forces are widely available, but few understand how such forces are best used in prosecuting defence and security policy. The Air Weapon seeks to address this deficiency by setting out the doctrines which guide the use of air power at the strategic and operational levels of war. It identifies what aviation forces can - and cannot - be used to achieve. It encompasses doctrines for war-fighting and also for war-prevention. And it suggests possible directions for future doctrinal development. Following a cohesive 'top-down' analytical path, the study deals with air power in the only viable way: as an integrated entity. The Air Weapon is perhaps the only all-encompassing high-level study of this critically important yet all-too-little-understood form of military power.

Blue Book of Airguns
Blue Book of Airguns

Author: Robert Beeman

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9781886768567

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This revised 5th Edition, now expanded to over 400 pages in a larger 8 x 11 in. format, contains over twice as much information as previous editions. Featured in this 5th Edition are hundreds of digital images for most popular makes and models, making identification much easier. The Blue Book of Airguns contains both up-to-date 2005 airguns pricing information and detailed technical data on both todays high tech offerings and older, discontinued models. This includes domestic, foreign, and military airguns, modern commemoratives, and major trademark antiques! Also included are some valuable editorials by Dr. Robert Beeman and noted airgun journalist Tom Gaylord, as well as an extensive pictorial glossary. The 5th Edition Blue Book of Airguns contains more useful and up-to-date information than any other single airgun publication.

The Toolmakers Airgun
The Toolmakers Airgun

Author: Paul Betts

Publisher: Redd Ink Press

Published: 2016-04-18

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780990568773

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This is the ultimate do it yourself guide for anyone wishing to build a classical style butt-stock reservoir air rifle. Author and designer Paul Betts takes readers through every step of design and fabrication of the project and even explains the how's and why's that are so often omitted from other works. The air rifle featured in this book is of sufficient caliber and power to make it ideal for hunting game or as a last ditch survival weapon. Anyone wishing to learn the art of airgun building will find this to be a great project.

Air Rifle Hunting
Air Rifle Hunting

Author: John Darling

Publisher: Crowood Press (UK)

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781852230630

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This book is a captivating and highly informative guide to the techniques of being effective as a hunter with a modern precision air rifle in today's countryside.

Nanoweapons
Nanoweapons

Author: Louis A. Del Monte

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2017-04-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1612348963

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"Nanoweapons describes the deadliest generation of military weaponry the world has ever seen and offers concrete recommendations for controlling their future use, thus avoiding global war and the end of humanity."--Provided by publisher.

Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons
Repeating and Multi-Fire Weapons

Author: Gerald Prenderghast

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-04-04

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1476631107

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From the very earliest days of organized warfare, combatants have wanted to develop weapons with more firepower. This has inevitably led to a wide variety of repeating weapons, capable of a degree of sustained fire without reloading. Based largely upon new research, this book explores the history of repeating and multi-fire weapons, beginning with the Chinese repeating crossbow in the 4th century BCE, and ending with the world's most common firearm, the Kalashnikov AK-47. The author describes the potency of the machine gun in World War I, the development of the semiautomatic pistol and the role of the submachine gun in improving the effectiveness of the infantryman.

The Gun
The Gun

Author: C. J. Chivers

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-09-06

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 0743271734

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The author, a New York Times reporter, traces the invention and mass distribution of the AK-47 assault rifle, and its effects on war. He traces the invention of the assault rifle, following the miniaturization of rapid-fire arms from the American Civil War, through World War I and Vietnam, to present-day Afghanistan, where Kalashnikovs and their knockoffs number as many as 100 million, one for every seventy persons on earth. It is the weapon of state repression, as well as revolution, civil war, genocide, drug wars, and religious wars; and it is the arms of terrorists, guerrillas, boy soldiers, and thugs. From its inception to its use by more than fifty national armies around the world, to its role in modern-day Afghanistan, he discusses how the deadly weapon has helped alter world history.