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MWB/LB-148 : Guns & Ammunition Design The course will be good for both the Engineer and Technician working in the
field either doing their own testing or directing others in doing testing. Also
will emphasize SAFE Operating and Design Considerations. As with all courses given by Baldini Resource Associates, Inc. Concepts, ideas
and Safe procedures will be stresses and emphasized-an equation will only be used
to explain a concept, if absolutely necessary.
* Gun Designs-History: standard, commercial, large caliber
* Ammunition Design Concepts-History and Current Systems
* Material Properties of Components of both Guns and Ammunition Designs
* Characteristics of Gun and Ammunition Design Materials under various operating and other conditions
* Simple and Complex Gun Designs; Machining and Fabricating Techniques
* Ammunition Design Considerations; Separate Ammo; Saboted Ammo; Non-Discarding Ammo; ammo feeding; duds, etc.
* Gun Design concepts, Small, Cannon and Large Caliber;
* Gun Design Types: chain; gatling; auto loaders; automatic types; mechanical; electrical etc.
* Ammunition Design Concepts: Standard ,Commercial and Unique
* Military and Commercial Gun and Ammunition Standards
* Military and Commercial Gun and Ammunition Function and Interchangability Requirements
* Definition of Terms; Gun and Ammunition Testing Techniques; Unique Instrumentation and Standard Testing Techniques
* Accuracy of Literature concerning Gun and Ammunition Design
* Points of Views of US Government, Commercial and Foreign Gun and Ammunition Designs-pro and cons of each
* Good and Bad: Gun and Ammunition Designs and Concepts
* Interaction of Ammunition Components on Performance-both Gun Function and Operation and Ammunition
* Experimental Gun and Ammunition Design Concepts
* Some Ammunition and Gun Design Rules of Thumb
* Lessons Learned and SAFETY to Stay Alive and Well
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MATERIAL COVERED
