Study Test 1 Flashcards
(41 cards)
What are the different types of elevation gears?
1) Worm and Segment
2) Nut and Screw
3Arc and Pinion
What are the different types of traverse gears?
1) Worm and Segment
2) Nut and Screw
3) Arc and Pinion
4) Rapson Nut and Screw
What is Windage?
The difference of the calibre of the mortar tube and the calibre of the mortar bomb.
Why is windage important ?
It allows a cushion of air to support the drop of the bomb down the tube.
What names are given to the Rifling?
1) Lands
2) Goves
How do you measure calibre?
Diameter of the bore from land to land
Describe Calibre as a length?
Calibre of weapon along the total length of the barrel.
What are the parts of the mortar?
1) Barrel
2) Bipod
3) Baseplate
4) Sights
What are the parts of the mortar bomb?
1) The Body
2) Tail Unit
Who was the monk?
Black Berthold
What did black Berthold do?
He is credited with the concept of a gun.
What was the first Fuze name?
Boxer Fuze
Who invented the boxer Fuze?
Colonel Boxer
Who is Shrapnel?
He is Henry Shrapnel, he fired cannon balls filled with shot that burst in mid air.
How do you achieve obturation with a caseless weapon?
1) Driving band
2) Obturation Ring
3) Interupted/Sliding Screw breeches
What is shot start?
When the projectile starts to move down the barrel.
How can the life of a barrel be extended?
1) Cooler burning propellant
2) Barrel cooling techniques
3) bore surfaces/finishes such as crome & molybdenum.
Name the types of firing mechanisms?
1) Percussion
2) Electric
3) Percussion and Electric
Henry Martini Problems?
1) Excessive fouling due to black powder
2) Extraction issue due to weak cart case
What are the early types of gun barrel?
1) Iron
2) Cast Iron
3) Bronze
What are the barrel construction methods?
1) Wire wound
2) Built up Barrels
3) Loose Barrel/Loose Liner
4) Composite Barrel
5) Monobloc
What are the different early methods of Rifling?
1) Hexagonal Barrel and Projectile
2) Studded Projectile
3) Lead Coated Projectile
4) Oval Rifling
5) French Rifling
6) Vavassures driving band
What are the 8 Tasks of IDF?
1) Suppression
2) Neutralisation
3) Destruction
4) Harrassment
5) Illumination
6) Intradiction
7) Counter-Battery Fire
8) Coordination of Fire
Define Ammunition?
All material used in discharging firearms or weapons that throw projectiles, shot, shrapnel, bullets, cartridges and the means of igniting and exploding them as primers & fuzes. Chemicals, bombs, grenades, mines and pyros are also ammunition.
