Jane’s Ammunition Handbook

An invaluable resource to guide you through the trends, market shifts, armament, development and descriptions in unmatched detail. Even the most discerning ammunition researcher or expert will view Jane’s Ammunition Handbook as a necessity to meet their information needs.

Content Structure
This book is divided into sections, each denoting the type of ammunition included. The section titles are provided on the Contents page, with each major section title repeated on each page heading for rapid reference. Within each section, the contents are arranged by calibre, from the smallest upwards, apart from the Grenades section, where there are further divisions into sub-types to categorise the contents in more detail. As far as can be accomplished, in the larger-calibre sections, the contents are arranged alphabetically by nation.

Structure
For space reasons, no attempt has been made to provide manufacturer information in each entry, other than an indication, where possible, of the main producers. Again, where possible, each entry has an international listing of the known manufacturers. In most cases, this should be treated more as an indication of a capability to manufacture rather than as an indication that the products concerned are being actively marketed.

Description
Within each entry, the Development section provides an account of each product’s development and (where applicable) commercial history. The Description text provides a technical account of the products, with further backing provided by the data included in the Specifications table. The Authorised fuzes text for the larger calibres provides an indication of the usual fuzes employed, together with an indication of interchangeability, where known or practical.

Manufacturers
The Equivalent rounds text provides, as far as can be achieved, a listing of all the known manufacturers on an international basis. This section should not be taken as an official listing of licensed producers, for in some cases, only marketing agents are indicated, while some manufacturers may not have any licence or commercial permission to produce a particular product.

Index
An index of manufacturers is provided towards the back of this book, providing addresses and other contact information, together with an outline listing of the products manufactured or marketed by each manufacturer.

Sections

• 40 x 46 lv he grenades
• 40 x 46 lv other grenades
• 40 x 46 lv smoke + pyrotechnic grenades
• 40 x 46-51 mv grenades
• 40 x 53 hv he grenades
• 40 x 53 hv other grenades
• Analysis
• Artillery rockets
• Cannon
• Cannon - 20 to 30 mm cannon
• Cannon - 35 to 57 mm cannon
• Contractors
• Field artillery
• Fuzes - artillery fuzes
• Fuzes - mortar fuzes - impact fuzes
• Fuzes - mortar fuzes - introduction
• Fuzes - mortar fuzes - proximity fuzes
• Fuzes - mortar fuzes - time fuzes
• Fuzes - rocket fuzes
• Glossary
• Identification of small arms ammunition
• Identification of small arms ammunition - bullet colour codes
• Identification of small arms ammunition - cartridge headstamps
• Modular propellant charge systems
• Mortars - 100 mm mortars
• Mortars - 107 mm mortars
• Mortars - 120 mm mortars
• Mortars - 160 mm mortars
• Mortars - 240 mm mortars
• Mortars - 50 mm mortars
• Mortars - 51 mm mortars
• Mortars - 52 mm mortars
• Mortars - 60 mm mortars
• Mortars - 81 mm mortars
• Mortars - 82 mm mortars
• Mortars - 98 mm mortars
• Naval and coastal defence guns
• Other calibre grenades
• Projected grenades - fin-stabilised grenades - he and heat grenades
• Projected grenades - fin-stabilised grenades - other grenades
• Projected grenades - spin-stabilised grenades - introduction
• Riot control ammunition
• Riot control ammunition - 37/38 mm rounds
• Riot control ammunition - 40 mm rounds
• Riot control ammunition - combined and miscellaneous rounds
• Riot control ammunition - shotgun rounds
• Small arms - pistols, smgs and pdws
• Small arms - rifles and mgs
• Small arms - shotguns
• Small arms - special-purpose and other weapons
• Tank and anti-tank guns

Commonly Used Terms
active electronically scanned array (radar), advanced anti-radiation guided missile, advanced cruise missile, advanced medium-range air-to-air missile, advanced precision kill weapons system, advanced short-range air-to-air missile, advanced surface-to-air missile, advanced technology demonstrator, advanced unitary penetrator, affordable moving surface target engagement, air intercept missile (US), air weapons group, airborne laser or anti-blindé léger (light anti-armour), airborne tactical laser, airborne warning and control system, air-launched anti-radar missile, air-launched cruise missile, air-launched decoy, air-launched target, air-sol longue portée (air-to-surface long range), air-sol moyenne portée (air-to-surface medium range), air-to-air, air-to-air missile, air-to-air missile (China), air-to-air Mistral, air-to-air Starstreak, air-to-air Stinger, air-to-ground missile, air-to-surface, air-to-surface missile, air-to-surface missile (China), air-to-surface missile (Russia), alternating current, anti-helicopter mine, anti-personnel anti-material, anti-radar missile, anti-radar missile Matra, anti-submarine rocket, anti-submarine weapon (or warfare), anti-tank, anti-tank guided missile, anti-tank guided weapon, arme propulsée à charges éjectables (powered dispenser system), armement air-sol modulare (modular air-to-surface weapon), armoured fighting vehicle, armoured personnel carrier, armour-piercing discarding sabot, armour-piercing discarding sabot with tracer, armour-piercing explosive, armour-piercing high explosive, armour-piercing high explosive and incendiary, armour-piercing incendiary tracer, armour-piercing or anti-personnel, armour-piercing practice with tracer, armour-piercing with tracer, askolochnayo aviabomba (fragmentation bomb) (Russia), automatic grenade launcher, autonomous free-flight dispenser system, betonoboynaya aviabomba (penetration bomb) (Russia), beyond visual range, beyond visual range air-to-air missile (Meteor), bomb and rocket dispenser, bomb damage assessment, bomb impact assessment, bomb live unit (submunitions) (US), bomb Royal Ordnance augmented charge, bombes anti-personnel (anti-personnel bomb), bombes d'appui tactique (tactical support bomb), braked retarded parachute, braked retarded parachute - super, broneboynaya aviabomba (armour-piercing bomb) (Russia), built-in test equipment, cadmium mercury telluride (IR detector), carboxy-terminated polybutadiene (solid propellant), cased telescoped ammunition, charge coupled device (TV camera), circular error of probability, cluster bomb or chemical/biological, cluster bomb unit (US), cluster weapon system, combined effects munition, commercial off-the-shelf, continuous wave, conventional air-launched cruise missile, conventional cruise missile, data storage unit (missile fuze), Defence Research and Development Organisation (India), Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia), Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (France), demolition, Department of Defense (US), depleted uranium, detection and control unit, direct current, dispenser weapon system, dual role air dominance missile, dual-mode laser guided bomb, ejector release unit, electromagnetic pulse, electronic counter-countermeasures, electronic countermeasures, electronic intelligence, electronic safe arm and fire, electronic support measures, electronic warfare, electro-optical, electrostatic discharge, engineering and manufacturing development, enhanced guided bomb unit (dual-mode), explosive reacting armour, explosively formed projectile, fibre optic cable, fibre optic guided, field of view, financial year, fiscal year, flechette anti-tank, focal plane array, focussed lethality munition, folding-fin aircraft rocket, foreign object damage, former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, forward-looking infra-red, frequency modulated, fuel/air aero cargo bomb, fugansnaya aviabomba (general purpose bomb) (Russia), full-scale development, future anti-ship guided weapon, fuze munition unit (bomb fuze), general purpose, glass reinforced plastic, global positioning system (formerly NAVSTAR), GPS aided targeting system/GPS aided munition, GPS guided munition, ground-launched cruise missile, ground-launched target (US), guidance and control section, guided bomb unit (US), gun aircraft unit (US), gun pod unit, hard target smart fuse, hardened aircraft shelter, haut subsonique optiquement teleguidé tiré d'un tube (high subsonic optically guided fired from a tube), hazards of electromagnetic radiation to ordnance, head-up display, heavy machine gun pod, hélicoptère d'appui protection (helicopter defence), helmet-mounted sight, high drag (bombs), high explosive, high explosive, high explosive (insensitive), high explosive anti-tank and anti-personnel, high frequency, high performance blast bomb (Germany), high performance penetrator (Germany), high-altitude endurance, high-explosive, high-explosive anti-tank, high-explosive armour-piercing and incendiary, high-explosive dual-purpose, high-explosive incendiary, high-explosive incendiary semi-armour-piercing, high-explosive incendiary tracer, high-speed anti-radar missile, home-on-jam, horsepower, hydroxl-terminated polybutadiene binder (solid propellant), hypervelocity missile, hypervelocity rocket, imaging infra-red, individual aerial intercept guided missile (shoulder-launched SAM) (US), inertial measurement unit, inertial navigation system, infra-red, infra-red counter-countermeasures, infra-red countermeasures, infra-red search and track, inhibited red fuming nitric acid (liquid rocket oxidiser), intermediate-range nuclear forces, Japan Self-Defense Force, joint air-to-surface standoff missile, joint common missile, joint direct attack munition, joint helmet-mounted cueing system, joint standoff weapon, joint supersonic cruise missile, khimicheskayo aviabomba (chemical air-launched bomb) (Russia), kilotons (nuclear yield), kinetic energy missile, kinetic energy penetrator, kinetic energy penetrator destroyer, knots indicated air speed, knots true air speed, laser-guided bomb, laser-guided training round, launcher armament unit, light airborne multipurpose system, light helicopter, light machine gun, low drag (bombs), low-altitude dispenser, low-altitude navigation and targeting infra-red night, low-cost miniature cruise missile, low-level laser-guided bomb, low-rate initial production, Mach number, machine gun, main battle tank, massive ordnance air blast, massive ordnance penetrator, mean time between failures, memorandum of understanding, millimetric-wave, mine countermeasures, miniature air-launched decoy, miniature air-launched interceptor, minimum rounds before stoppage, Ministry of Defence (UK), missile design bureau (Russia), missile d'interception et de combat aérien (combat and air intercept missile), mission control system, modular dispenser system, modular standoff vehicle, modular standoff weapon, modular standoff weapon, multifunction bomb fuse, multiple ejector rack, multiple launch rocket system, multiple or modular rocket launcher, multiple-launch environment surface attack missile (US), multipurpose submunition, munition deployed bomb damage assessment, Naval Weapons Center (US), Near-Term Improvement Programme, new ship missile, nochnaya orientirno signal aviatsionnaya bomba (night orientation marker aircraft bomb) (Russia), North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Norwegian advanced surface-to-air missile system, oskolochnaya fugasnaya aviabomba (fragmentation demolition bomb) (Russia), parachute retarded (Russia), passive attack weapon, penetration high-explosive incendiary, People's Liberation Army Air Force (China), People's Republic of China, permissive action link, polymer bonded explosive, precision guided bomb (Paveway IV), precision guided munition, preformed fragmentation, product improvement programme, protivosamalotnaya aviabomba (air-launched cluster weapon) (Russia), Protivotankovaya aviabomba (anti-tank bomb) (Russia), pulse repetition frequency (radar), radio frequency, ramjet vehicle (France), rasseivanie bomba kenteyner (cluster bomb) (Russia), reduced smoke, reliable replacement warhead, remotely piloted vehicle, reprogrammable microprocessor, request for proposals, risk reduction phase, robot (missile) (Sweden), robust nuclear earth penetrator, rocket assisted take-off, rocket management system, Royal Air Force (UK), safety and arming unit, satellite communications, selected precision effects at range, semi-active laser, semi-armour-piercing high-explosive incendiary, semi-armour-piercing or sensing and processing unit, semi-automatic command to line of sight, sensor fuzed weapon, service life extension programme, ship-launched surface attack missile (US), ship-launched surface-to-air missile (US), short-range air-to-air missile, short-range attack missile, side-looking airborne radar, silent hard kill, Small Contained Area Laser Precision Energetic Load, small diameter bomb, smart precise impact and cost effective, staff requirement, standoff high speed option for counterproliferation, standoff land attack missile, stored chemical energy propulsion system, submarine-launched cruise missile, submarine-launched surface attack missile (US), subsonic cruise armed decoy, suppression of enemy air defences, surface-launched target (US), surface-to-air missile, surveilling miniaturized air launched cruise missile, suspended underwing unit (US), synthetic aperture radar, système de croisière conventional autonome à longue portée de précision (long-range precision cruise missile system), tactical land attack missile, tactical munitions dispenser, target detecting device (missile fuze), target identification and acquisition system, television, terminally guided submunition, terrain navigation, terrain-comparison, third generation anti-tank (missile), through life support, torpedo torpedo killer, tourelle hélicoptère léger (light helicopter turret), training practice, training practice, tracer, transporter-erector-launcher, travelling wave tube, triple ejector rack, tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided, ultraviolet, United States Air Force, United States Marine Corps, United States Navy, unmanned aerial system, unmanned aerial vehicle, unmanned combat aerial system, unmanned combat aerial vehicle, unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (liquid rocket fuel), warhead unit (US), white phosphorus, wind corrected munitions dispenser, wraparound fin aerial rocket, zazhigatelnaya aviabomba (incendiary bomb) (Russia)

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