Course detail
Barrel Guns
FSI-0HZ Acad. year: 2019/2020 Winter semester
The graduate will learn the basics of the classification of small arms and ammunition, their design, operation and their characteristic versions. Moreover, the graduate gets acquainted with basic types of small arms sights, as well as with the rules for their safe use.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
2
Supervisor
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The subject of Barrel Weapons enables the graduates to acquire basic knowledge from the areas of ballistics, design, operation and characteristics of pistols, revolvers, rifles, their ammunition and sights.
Prerequisites
General mechanical engineering knowledge.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Exercises are focused on practical topics presented in lectures. According to the possibility of teaching can be organized lectures for students by practitioners and excursions to companies focused on activities related to the course content.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Graded course-unit credit is awarded on the basis of test (50 %) and semester work (50 %). It is graded on the ECTS grading scale.
Aims
The graduate is acquainted with fundamentals in the branch of ballistics, design and operation of small arms and their ammunition. He/she also knows the basics about current production of the main types of long and short guns and their ammunition both in the Czech Republic and in other countries.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance at lectures is not obligatory, yet recommended. Seminars are obligatory. Graded course-unit credit is awarded on the basis of test and semester work. Absence on seminars must be excused and can be substituted for by presentation of a report.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme B3S-P: Engineering, Bachelor's
branch B-STI: Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, elective (voluntary)
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Principles of the design of barrel weapons – general classification of barrel weapons, small arms
2. Main parts and mechanisms of small arms, basic terminology
3. Small arms classification, general principles of their usage
4. Shot from a small arm and its characteristics, basic issues of interior ballistics of firearms, cartridge – its design and operation, projectiles and explosives in firearms cartridges, definition of basic interior ballistics terms
5. Small arms operation cycle, semi-automatic pistol – design and operation, pistol functional diagram and kinematics – geometric diagram (cyclograph)
6. Small arms barrels, common requirements on barrels design, barrel bore arrangement
7. Breech systems of small arms – single shot and bolt-action breeches, breeches of self-loading and automatic weapons, breech closures of small arms
8. Mechanisms and systems used in small arms – feed mechanisms, bolt holding mechanisms, extractors and ejectors, firing and trigger mechanisms, safety arrangements
9. Aiming of small arms – principle of aiming, iron sights and optical sights, night vision sights
10. Basic principles of intermediate (transitional) and external ballistics of firearms, gun muzzle flash, blast and smoke, electromagnetic radiation, muzzle and initial velocity of projectile, motion of projectile in the atmosphere
11. Basic principles of terminal ballistics, fragmentation, penetration, perforation, shape charge and wound effects of projectiles specification, basic methods for fire accuracy evaluation.
12. Guns and ammunition policy in the Czech legal system, categories of guns and ammunition
13. Gun licence for personal use and gun licence for business, categories of gun licences, qualification exam.
Exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Opening tutorial with weapons and ammunition. Educational excursion in a commercial shooting range, demonstration of small weapons and gunshot
2. Work safety training, practical training in safe handling of weapons and ammunition; assignment of semestral projects
3. Practical exercise with small weapons
4. Practical exercise with small weapons and ammunition
5. Practical exercise in internal ballistics
6. Practical exercise in weapon production, barrel production
7. Practical exercise in weapon production, production of breeches
8. Practical exercise in weapon production, production of weapon parts, mounting arms (themes 6 – 8 are joint in a one-day excursion to weapon factory)
9. Practical exercise in ammunition production, production of cartridge cases
10. Practical exercise in ammunition production, production of projectiles
11. Practical exercise in ammunition production, production of cartridges (themes 9 – 11 are joint in a one-day excursion to weapon factory)
12. Practical exercise in pistol shooting (at a commercial shooting range)
13. Credit test, submitting semestral projects and awarding credits