Ammunition
Subtitle: instructions for the naval service, 1923
Series: Ordnance pamphlet -- no. 4.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Safety measures; Naval Ordnance; Handbooks, manuals; United States; Ordnance and ordnance stores; Ammunition; United States. Navy
Notes: "September 1923"--T.p.

"This publication supersedes Ordnance Pamphlet Nos. 20, Service explosives ; 368, Part II, Marking of ammunition ; 21, Pyrotechnic signal material, and all previous instructions regarding tests of service explosives" -- p. iii.

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Table of contents: title: General instructions; title: Safety precautions; title: Definitions and history of explosives; title: Black powder; title: Smokeless powder; title: Tests of smokeless powder; title: Surveillance ovens; title: High explosives; title: Detonating substances; title: Projectiles; title: Cartridge cases and tanks; title: Fuses and tracers; title: Primers; title: Assembled charges; title: Miscellaneous ammunition; title: Aircraft ammunition; title: Storage of ammunition; title: Marking of ammunition; title: Pyrotechnics; title: Interior ballistics; title: Erosion; title: Dispersion; title: Reports.