Exterior Ballistics of Small Arms

About the Book

The “Exterior Ballistics of Small Arms” is a book mainly about the flight of projectiles of small arms and, at the same time, represents an extension to “Exterior Ballistics with Applications – Skydiving, parachute Fall, flying fragments”, by Gjergj Klimi, already published by Xlibris in July 30th, 2008. The book contains the Exterior Ballistics PC programs that were not possible to be included in the “Exterior Ballistics with Applications” as well as 76 illustration examples and exercises that can be solved mainly using the Exterior Ballistics PC programs presented in this book. The book has 19 PC Programs. The present book is addressed to amateurs and professionals interested in exterior ballistics, and in shooting with small arms, hunting and sporting rifles, and in general to the readers interested in the field of military and applied science. The simple undergraduate mathematics that is used to present the material and the PC programs makes the book attractive to amateurs and training experts that continuously practice to improve the accuracy of shooting with small arms. The small firearm marksmen find in the book simple theoretical explanations to some basics concepts and characteristics of exterior ballistics and practice of shooting with small arms such as the ballistics coefficient, rifleman’s rule, inclined fire, mountain firing, firing in non-standard atmosphere and in presence of wind, etc. All explanations as well as the proofs of some fundamental rules of exterior ballistics are based on the flight of the projectile in presence of drag.

About the Author

George Klimi (Gjergj Klimi), PhD, is associate professor of Mathematics at NYC College of Technology and adjunct faculty at Pace University (New York). George is the author of three books on exterior ballistics: Exterior Ballistics with Applications (2008), Exterior Ballistics of Small Arms (2009), Exterior Ballistics: A New Approach (2010), published by Xlibris. The third edition of Exterior Ballistics with Applications, Xlibris, was published in December 2011. George Klimi, from 1970 until 1993, has been professor of physics and mathematics, and chair of the physics department at the Military Academy of Tirana, Albania. In the nineties George used to work at the Committee of Science and Technology and at the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in Albania as Director of Tempus Office, responsible for the implementation of the European Community Programs to restructure higher education. He was awarded the Gold Medal of Eagle by the president of the Republic of Albania for his contribution in the democratic movement against dictatorship and for restructuring higher education in Albania.