Ordnance, weapons technology Books
Defiance Press & Publishing Snipers Discretion
£18.92
Outskirts Press Implementing U.S. Arms Control Agreements
£17.05
Highlyy Publishing LLP The Rise of Drone Warfare Technology Strategy and Ethics
£58.64
John Pritchett Moments of Madness
£14.03
Independently Published Ancient Empires Did You Know That
£999.99
Independently Published Guerra Hibrida
£12.97
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Silent Skies Shifting Battles
£7.92
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Exploring Operational Art
£15.69
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Democratizing Violence
£30.29
Independently Published The English Cartridge: Pattern 1853 Rifle-Musket Ammunition
£13.30
Independently Published The Military Machete and Its Use in Combat
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£13.33
Scribner Book Company Revolver
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£24.00
Shaker Verlag GmbH, Germany The Textbook of Pistol Technology and Design:
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£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Engineering the Revolution Arms and Enlightenment
Book SynopsisDocuments the forging of a fresh relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the 'technological life'.Trade Review"A work of stunning originality.... An important contribution to a variety of fields." - Ted Porter. "A triumph. It deserves to be read widely, and not just as an inquiry into the origins of modern France." - Donald MacKenzie, "London Review of Books." "In the history of technology, one of the very best books is Ken Alder's Engineering the Revolution, about the ways in which new engineering practices both emerged from and shaped the ideals of the French Revolution." - Peter Galison, American Scientist. "Ken Alder's study of the relations between artifacts, technical life, and politics constitutes a model study in its genre." - Terry Shinn, "Social Studies of Science."
£28.00
Trivent Publishing Designed for Death: Controlling Killer Robots
Book SynopsisAutonomous weapons systems, often referred to as 'killer robots', have been a hallmark of popular imagination for decades. However, with the inexorable advance of artificial intelligence systems (AI) and robotics, killer robots are quickly becoming a reality. These lethal technologies can learn, adapt, and potentially make life and death decisions on the battlefield with little-to-no human involvement. This naturally leads to not only legal but ethical concerns as to whether we can meaningful control such machines, and if so, then how. Such concerns are made even more poignant by the ever-present fear that something may go wrong, and the machine may carry out some action(s) violating the ethics or laws of war. Researchers, policymakers, and designers are caught in the quagmire of how to approach these highly controversial systems and to figure out what exactly it means to have meaningful human control over them, if at all. In Designed for Death, Dr Steven Umbrello aims to not only produce a realistic but also an optimistic guide for how, with human values in mind, we can begin to design killer robots. Drawing on the value sensitive design (VSD) approach to technology innovation, Umbrello argues that context is king and that a middle path for designing killer robots is possible if we consider both ethics and design as fundamentally linked. Umbrello moves beyond the binary debates of whether or not to prohibit killer robots and instead offers a more nuanced perspective of which types of killer robots may be both legally and ethically acceptable, when they would be acceptable, and how to design for them.
£76.50
Cambridge University Press The GunFounders of England
Book SynopsisThis 1937 book provides an authentic sketch of the history of English gun production, from their first use in the fourteenth century down to the time of Marlborough's campaigns in the early eighteenth century. This will be of value to anyone interested in English history and the development of guns.Table of ContentsPreface Lord Cottesloe; Author's preface; Plates; Illustrations in text; 1. Introduction; 2. Manufacture; 3. Guns of iron and brass; 4. Gun-foundries in London and Calais; 5. Foundries of Douai and Woolwich; 6. Foundries of Sussex; 7. The Carron Foundry; 8. Powder and shot; 9. Proof and range; 10. Extracts from historical documents; 11. List of gun-founders of England and the Continent; 12. Bibliography; 13. Index.
£31.90
Cambridge University Press Banning Chemical Weapons
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£85.50
Cambridge University Press Banning Chemical Weapons
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£31.08
Cambridge University Press Critical Assembly A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years 19431945
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£29.99
Cambridge University Press Drones and International Law
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£90.25
HarperCollins Publishers Inc American Gun
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chris Kyle embodied what it meant to have a heart both strong and soft, and a commitment to country, family, and God. ... Kyle will continue to inspire anyone paying attention to his example." -- Dallas Morning News "Chris Kyle was incredible, the most celebrated war hero of our time, a true American hero in every sense of the word." -- D Magazine "A true hero." -- New York Times "Chris Kyle has done and seen things that will be talked about for generations to come." -- MARCUS LUTTRELL, recipient of the Navy Cross and author of Lone Survivor "A celebration of Kyle's voice and life: It's like sitting down with him in some funky Texas roadhouse just off the interstate after a hot but fulfilling day at the range, ordering up a tableful of Lone Stars and just talking guns for a few hours." -- USA Today "Tells how 10 firearms changed United States history." -- New York Times Book Review "Kyle's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious, and his gift for narrative lends the stories the tension and drama they deserve. ... Regardless of one's views on guns, readers will gain a deeper respect for weaponry and the people tasked with using them." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Kyle's firm grasp of the ten guns selected is combined with a narrative of American soldiers, lawmen, and citizens who used them. ... When you read American Gun you hear the voice, heart, wit, and passion of this self-effacing American hero--one taken from us too soon." -- Mark Keefe, American Rifleman "Chris Kyle knew guns in a way no modern American ever has. ... His book new book details the rifles and pistols wielded by soldiers, police officers, hunters, mobsters and outlaws that most influenced the culture of this nation." -- Daily Mail (London) "A book that every American should read, and it will stand as part of the legacy of one of our nation's greatest heroes." -- American Rifleman A fitting legacy for Chris Kyle. ... American Gun is written with the authority of a subject matter expert and the straight-talking voice of a warrior." -- SOFREP.com "An entertaining gallop through history." -- London Times
£15.46
OUP India I Warbot
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£999.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Flamethrowers of the German Army 19141945
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£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Marder III Schiffer MilitaryAviation History
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£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd DFS 228 Schiffer Military History Book
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd ZÃndapp KS 601
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£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd VW Iltis
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£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Soviet and Russian Nuclear Submarines
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£11.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Air Launch
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£17.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Bullard Firearms
Book SynopsisBullard Firearms is the story of a mechanical genius whose rifles and cartridges were the equal of any made in America in the 1880s, yet little of substance had been written about James H. Bullard or his arms prior to 1988, when the first edition, called Bullard Arms, was published.This much enlarged volume with over 1,000 black and white and 150 color plates, most not previously published, answers many of the questions posed in the first edition. The author hopes this book will continue on the path begun by the first edition and elevate the work and life of J.H. Bullard into the pantheon of extraordinary American gunmakers and inventors.
£71.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Developmental Cartridge Handguns in 22 Calibre As
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£76.79
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Argentine Mauser Rifles 18711959
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£58.39
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Luftwaffe Gravity Knife
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£39.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Sword
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£999.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Dagger Fighting
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£31.44
Schiffer Publishing Ltd American Breechloading Mobile Artillery 18751953
Book SynopsisMilitary historians and students of artillery technology will appreciate this illustrated field guide to all the types of mobile (wheeled) field artillery used by US military forces (Army, Navy, Marine Corps) in the modern era. Covering the period from 1875 and the first breechloading rifled guns through types adopted during the Korean War, the book profiles field and infantry artillery, mountain guns, siege artillery, anti-tank guns, and naval landing guns. Each type of gun is described in text, drawings, and photos and includes a history of the type’s development, major features, production, combat use, and comments about surviving examples. The book is a valuable reference for those caring for or collecting these kinds of weapons. It is the first comprehensive guide to American mobile artillery ever to be published.
£39.09
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Deadly BeautiesRare German Handguns Vol. 1
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIf you have a spare few minutes, check out the review of our book Deadly Beauties by the YouTube account Forgotten Weapons.
£62.04
Kensington Publishing Churchills Shadow Raiders The Race to Develop
Book SynopsisFrom bestselling and award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis and for fans of Erik Larsen’s The Splendid and Vile and Alex Kershaw’s The Forgotten 500 comes a thrilling account of one of the most daring raids of WWII…the true story of the race to stop Hitler from developing a top-secret weapon that would change the course of history. One of the most readable World War 2 history books I have read in years” —We Are the Mighty In the winter of 1941, as Britain faced defeat on all fronts, an RAF reconnaissance pilot photographed an alien-looking object on the French coast near Le Havre. The mysterious device—a “Wurzburg Dish”—appeared to be a new form of radar technology: ultra-compact, highly precise, and pointed directly across the English Channel. Britain’s experts found it hard to believe the Germans had mastered such groundbreaking technology. But one young technic
£21.60
Kensington Publishing Churchills Shadow Raiders
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£14.36
Kensington Publishing Churchills Band of Brothers
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£15.26
Schiffer Publishing Ltd Tiger I
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£11.84
Schiffer Publishing Ltd German AntiTank Aircraft
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£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd German Heavy Reconnaissance Vehicles
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£9.49
Schiffer Publishing Ltd FORTRESS EUROPE THE ATLANTIC WALL GUNS
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£9.49
St Martin's Press Gun Barons
Book SynopsisJohn Bainbridge, Jr.''s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons.Love them or hate them, guns are woven deeply into the American soul. Names like Colt, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and Remington are legendary. Yet few people are aware of the roles these men played at a crucial time in United States history, from westward expansion in the 1840s, through the Civil War, and into the dawn of the Gilded Age. Through personal drive and fueled by bloodshed, they helped propel the young country into the forefront of the world''s industrial powers.Their creations helped save a nation divided, while planting seeds that would divide the country again a century later. Their inventions embodied an intoxicating thread of American individualismpart fiction, part realitythat remains the foundation of modern gun culture. They promoted gun
£17.00
Smithsonian Books The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the
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£21.60
American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics Missile Design and Systems Engineering
Book SynopsisIn his latest book, ""Missile Design and Systems Engineering"", Eugene Fleeman presents a comprehensive review of the missile design and systems engineering process pulling from his decades of experience in the development of missiles and their technologies. Aimed toward the needs of aerospace engineering students and professors, systems analysts and engineers, program managers, and others working in the areas of missile systems and missile technology development, the book provides readers with an understanding of missile design, missile technologies, launch platform integration, missile system measures of merit and the missile system development process. This book has been adapted from Fleeman's earlier title, ""Tactical Missile Design, Second Edition"" to include a greater emphasis on systems engineering.Topics discussed include: top components in the missile design and system engineering process; critical tradeoffs, methods and technologies in aerodynamic, propulsion, structure, seeker, warhead, fuzing, and subsystems sizing to meet flight performance and other requirements; launch platform - missile integration; robustness, lethality, guidance, navigation & control, accuracy, observables, survivability, reliability, and cost considerations; missile sizing examples for missile systems and missile technologies; and, missile system and missile technology development process.
£102.60
Editions Heimdal La Saga Du Sherman
Book SynopsisThis exceptional book highlights the role and difficulties of the crews who served this mythical tank. The technical pitfalls and solutions by the designers are explained and the different combat methods developed by the allies are detailed. This book exhaustively lists the equipment, the engines and the generated models. Includes an exceptional iconography, including color plates, materials and markings. Cet ouvrage d’exception met en avant le rôle et les difficultés des équipages qui ont servi ce char mythique. Les écueils techniques et les solutions trouvées par les concepteurs sont expliquées, les différentes méthodes de combat mises au point par les alliés sont détaillées. L’ouvrage liste de façon exhaustive les équipements, les motorisations et les modèles engendrés. Une iconographie exceptionnelle, dont des planches couleurs, des matériels et marquages.
£48.00
