Modern Exterior Ballistics: Enhancing Safety and Performance in Contemporary Design

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The great forte of Modern Exterior Ballistics is the author's effort to provide many fine specific examples of projectile motion illustrating key flight behaviors. The extensive collection of data on projectiles from small arms to artillery used to substantiate calculations and examples is alone a valuable reference. This book is a self teaching aid for the amateur and professional exterior ballistician.326 pg.

In 1998, Robert McCoy gave the shooting sports community a gift - his book, Modern Exterior Ballistics: The Launch and Flight Dynamics of Symmetric Projectiles. We all suffered a great loss when he passed away, mere months after his book was finished. It is the best up-to-date overview of the math and physics used by modern ballistics engineers that I have come across.

As such, it breaks away. A comprehensive text covering the basic free flight dynamics of symmetric projectiles. The book provides a historical perspective of early developments in the 19th century, the technology leading to World War I and that through World War II into the modern post-war era.

Historical topics include the first ballistic firing tables, early wind tunnel experiments, the development of free flight. Here's the Link: 04/13/2010 Corrections to "Modern Exterior Ballistics" The corrections are copyrighted by the late Donald G. Miller and seem to be included in the Revised 2nd Edition of "Modern Exterior Ballistics." If needed, you can download the free Acrobat Reader to open the PDF file.

Chapter 5 of Modern Exterior Ballistics gives solutions for cd as a function of Mach (cd = const, cd = 1/M, cd = 1/M^(1/2)). Pejsa's method is very similar, except it allows cd = 1/M^(x) where x is some variable that depends on your specific projectile. Modern Exterior Ballistics by Robert L.

McCoy, 2012, Schiffer Publishing, Limited edition, in English. Modern Exterior Ballistics Robert McCoy,1999 This text covers the basic free flight dynamics of symmetric projectiles It provides a historical perspective of early developments in the 19th century the technology leading to World War I and that through World War II into the modern post war era Historical topics include the first ballistic fi.