💣 Naval Guns & Ordnance
Gun Books · Range Tables · Fire Control · Ordnance Pamphlets · Armor
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From the workhorse 5″/38 to the thundering 16″ battleship guns — technical manuals,
ordnance pamphlets, range tables, fire control systems, and training materials from the
US Navy’s own archives. Many of these documents exist nowhere else online.
💣 Gun Books & Technical Manuals
- 5″/38 Caliber Gun — Complete Gun Book
- 20MM Anti-Aircraft Gun — OP-911 Gun Mounts
- 40MM Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun — OP-820
- 40MM Bofors History and Relocation
- 16″ Gun Pages — Complete Collection
- USS Iowa Broadside Firing
🎯 Range Tables, Ammunition & Testing
- US Navy Guns, Ammunition Design & Testing — Main Index
- USN Gunnery and Fire Control
- Analog Fire Control Computers of Ford and Newell
- Temperature of Guns After Repeated Firing
- OP-770 Range Tables for 16″/50 Caliber Gun, Mark D — 1951
- OP-1188 Range Tables Abridged — June 1944
- Railway Artillery 1921
- Naval Ordnance 1937
🌾 Fire Control Systems
- Naval Ordnance and Gunnery Vol 2 — Fire Control Index
- Naval Ordnance and Gunnery Vol 1, 1957 — NavPers 10797-A
- Fire Control Equipment
- OP-658 Fire Control Radar, Mark 8 — January 1943
- OP-1063 The Stable Element — January 1944
- OP-1064 Computer Mark I and Mods — Theory & Operation
- OP-1064A Volumes 1 & 2 — Computer Mark I & Mods Maintenance
- OP-1171 Optical Equipment: Rangefinders Mark 58 & 65
- OP-1303 US Navy Synchros — December 1944
- OP-1700 Standard Fire Control Symbols — May 1950
- Selsyn and Synchro Devices
- ▶ Fire Control Analog Computers Parts 1 & 2 — 1953 (Video)
- ▶ 16″ Main Battery Fire Control 1954 (Video)
⚙ Turrets & Mounts
- OP-755 — 16″ Three Gun Turrets BB 55–60
- OP-769 — 16″ Three Gun Turrets BB 61 Class (Iowa Class)
- NAVORD-769 — Configuration of Three Gun Turrets USS New Jersey 1968
- New US Navy Ships 1939 — Including Battleships Iowa and New Jersey
💥 Ammunition & Explosives
- OP-4 Ammunition — May 1943
- OP-1480 VT Fuzes for Projectiles & Spin Stabilized Rockets
- OP-831 Depth Charge Projector Mark 6 Mod 1 & 2
- OP-2081 Use of Explosives in Underwater Salvage
- Japanese Underwater Ordnance: Mines, Depth Charges, Torpedoes
- OP-0 (Zero) Complete Index of Ordnance Pamphlets — 1946
- Naval Mines — Types, Components & Firing Mechanisms (Ch. 13A)
- Naval Mines — Aircraft Minelaying & the Mark 10 Mine (Ch. 13B)
- Naval Mine Warfare — Strategy, Tactics & Countermeasures (Ch. 13C)
⛝ Armor
- Chapter XII Armor — Historical Development
- Chapter XII Armor — Class A Armor
- Chapter XII Armor — Class B Armor
- Chapter XII Armor — Light Armor
▶ Guns in Action — Videos
- ▶ Loading the 16″ Guns on Battleships
- ▶ 1943 US Navy 40MM Anti-Aircraft Gun Training Video
- USS Iowa Broadside Firing
- ▶ Rail Gun — Electro-Magnetic Cannon
- ▶ Naval 14″ Railway Guns in 1918 France
- ▶ Navy Proving Ground Dahlgren, VA — 1951
- ▶ Raytheon Fiber Laser Spy Drone Killer
- ▶ GBAD Ground Based Anti-Drone Lasers on Trucks