Weapon Design

Question 1

What are the two main parts of a gun

Answer 1

The carriage or mounting
The gun

Question 2

What are the 3 types of muzzle breaks?

Answer 2

Build up
Solid forging
Swayed-single or double
Baffle

Question 3

What are the 2 categories of breech mechanisms?

Answer 3

Screw
Sliding

Question 4

What do fume extractors aid in?

Answer 4

They prevent the fumes entering the crew compartment

Question 5

What are the methods of barrel construction?

Answer 5

Wire bound
Build up barrels
Loose barrels
Composite barrels
Monobloc

Question 6

What is the function of ordnance?

Answer 6

It provides a vessel to contain the force of the burning charge in a way that the energy produced is transmitted safely and predictably to the projectile and it imparts direction and stability to the projectile

Question 7

What is a carriage?

Answer 7

Ordnance that is transported on its wheels and is fired with its wheels in contact with the ground

Question 8

What is a mount?

Answer 8

It is ordnance that does not fire with its wheels in contact with the ground

Question 9

What are the 2 types of mounts?

Answer 9

Mobile
Self propelled

Question 10

What makes up the super structure?

Answer 10

Saddle
Recoil system
Cradle
Balancing gear
Elevating gears
Traversing gears
Sights

Question 11

What are the 3 types of cradle?

Answer 11

Trough
Open
Ring

Question 12

What makes up the recoil system in a piece of ordnance?

Answer 12

The buffer
The recuperator

Question 13

What are the types of elevating gears?

Answer 13

Worm and segment
Nut and screw
Arc and pinion

Question 14

What are the types of traversing gears?

Answer 14

Worm and segment
Nut and screw
Arc and pinion
Rapson nut and screw

Question 15

What makes up the basic structure?

Answer 15

Platforms
Articulations
Spades
Trails
Wheels and axles
Saddle supports
Suspension and brakes

Question 16

What ar e the 4 types of trail?

Answer 16

Pole
Box
Bowed
Split

Question 17

What are the main components of the motor bomb?

Answer 17

Bomb body including fuse
Tail unit

Question 18

What are the 2 types of augmenting charges?

Answer 18

Thin leaves of plasticised and bonded propellant stapled together.
Hollow plastic cartridges containing granular propellant.

Question 19

What is the definition of a mortar?

Answer 19

A weapon where the main recoil force is transmitted directly into the ground through the base plate. Usually smooth bore, muzzle loaded, fin stabilised, with its own propelling charge at low muzzle velocity and high trajectory

Question 20

What are the types of artillery ammunition?

Answer 20

HE
Smoke
Illuminating
Guided projectile
Submunitions

Question 21

What are the 5 basic requirements of artillery?

Answer 21

Range
Accuracy and consistency
Mobility
Protection
Ammunition

Question 22

What are the 2 main methods used without altering the artillery weapon system to increase range?

Answer 22

Ballistic coefficiency
Post firing boost

Question 23

Define the word accuracy

Answer 23

The measurement of precision where the MPI of a group of rounds can be placed on the target

Question 24

What is the definition of ammunition?

Answer 24

All the material used in discharging all types of fire arms or any weapon that throws projectiles, shot, shrapnel, bullets, cartridges and the means of igniting and exploding them as primers and fuzes.
Chemicals, bombs, grenades, mines and pyrotechnics are also ammunition.

Question 25

Who invented the breech loading gun?

Answer 25

Sir William Armstrong

Question 26

Who is credited with the concept of a gun?

Answer 26

The monk Black Berthold

Question 27

Who designed the first modern combustion time fuze?

Answer 27

Colonel Boxer

Question 28

What are the types of rifling?

Answer 28

Hexagonal barrel and projectile Studded projectile Lead coated projectile French rifling Oval bore Vavassure’s driving band

Question 29

What is indirect fire?

Answer 29

Firing a projectile on a ballistic trajectory outside of line of sight

Question 30

What are sights for?

Answer 30

Allows you to position the barrel with the correct line and elevation

Question 31

What are HE projectiles designed to do?

Answer 31

Disperse high velocity fragments and the effects is accompanied by blast

Question 32

What are artillery fuzes for HE?

Answer 32

Air burst Ground burst Delay

Question 33

What are smoke used for?

Answer 33

Screening of movements Marking of targets Blind enemy observation

Question 34

Advantages of smoke

Answer 34

In good weather it can blind or screen

Question 35

Why are illumination carried at lower percentage now?

Answer 35

Thermal imaging Infrared sights Low light TV Image intensifiers

Question 36

What are considerations for delivery systems?

Answer 36

Terrain Effect required at target Range Mobility Nature of task Protection

Question 37

What are the tasks of delivery systems?

Answer 37

Neutralisation Illumination Counter battery fire Coordination of fires Destruction Interdiction Suppression Harassment

Question 38

Definition of FFR?

Answer 38

A tube open at one end in which fuel is burnt and the gases escape out the open end. The momentum of escaping gases cause an equal and opposite reaction on the closed end. Pthe projectile flight path cannot be changed.

Question 39

What is ammunition?

Answer 39

All the material used in discharging all types of firearms or any weapon that throws projectiles, shot, shrapnel, bullets, cartridges and the means of ignoring and exploding them. Chemical bombs, mines and pyrotechnics are also ammunition.

Question 40

Why is windage a factor?

Answer 40

Allows the bomb to drop straight to the bottom of the barrel

Question 41

2 types of barrel wear?

Answer 41

Erosive and abrasive

Question 42

What is windage?

Answer 42

The gap between the outer wall of the bomb and the inside wall of the tube/ barrel

Question 43

What is a disadvantage of fixed propellant?

Answer 43

It has a flat trajectory

Question 44

What is shot start?

Answer 44

When the projectile begins to move in the barrel

Question 45

How can life of the barrel be extended?

Answer 45

Cooler burning propellants Barrel cooling techniques Bore surface finishes