Exterior Ballistics of Small Arms

Download or read book Exterior Ballistics of Small Arms written by Gjergj Klimi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "Exterior Ballistics of Small Arms" is a book mainly about the flight of projectiles of small arms and, at the same time, represents an extension to "Exterior Ballistics with Applications Skydiving, parachute Fall, flying fragments", by Gjergj Klimi, already published by Xlibris in July 30th, 2008. The book contains the Exterior Ballistics PC programs that were not possible to be included in the "Exterior Ballistics with Applications" as well as 76 illustration examples and exercises that can be solved mainly using the Exterior Ballistics PC programs presented in this book. The book has 19 PC Programs. The present book is addressed to amateurs and professionals interested in exterior ballistics, and in shooting with small arms, hunting and sporting rifles, and in general to the readers interested in the field of military and applied science. The simple undergraduate mathematics that is used to present the material and the PC programs makes the book attractive to amateurs and training experts that continuously practice to improve the accuracy of shooting with small arms. The small firearm marksmen find in the book simple theoretical explanations to some basics concepts and characteristics of exterior ballistics and practice of shooting with small arms such as the ballistics coefficient, rifleman's rule, inclined fire, mountain firing, firing in non-standard atmosphere and in presence of wind, etc. All explanations as well as the proofs of some fundamental rules of exterior ballistics are based on the flight of the projectile in presence of drag.