Aircraft Munitions

Aircraft Munitions

Navy Training Courses - Edition of 1944

Prepared under the supervision of the Bureau of Naval Personnel

U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1944

This book is written for the enlisted men of Naval aviation. It is one of a series of books designed to give them the background information necessary to perform their aviation duties.

A knowledge of aircraft munitions is of primary importance to Aviation Ordnancemen responsible for general maintenance work. But the subdivisions of Aviation Ordnancemen—that is, Aviation Bombsight Mechanics and Aviation Turret Mechanics—also need an understanding of aircraft munitions. They need to know the relationship of their specialties to the broad subject of ordnance.

Starting with basic information on explosives, this book takes up ammunition for small arms, machine guns and 20 mm aircraft guns. A discussion of bombs and fuzes, torpedoes and rockets follows. Then come mines, pyrotechnics and smoke screen equipment, and destructors.

As one of the Navy Training Courses, this book represents the joint endeavor of the Naval Air Technical Training Command and the Training Division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel.

Contents

• Preface
• Explosives and How They Work
• Gun Ammunition
• Bombs
• Bomb Fuzes
• Torpedoes
• Rockets and Rocket Launchers
• Mines
• Pyrotechnics
• Smoke
• Destructors

198 pages

65 photos/illustrations